Absolutely a really great lesson! Many thanks, Will, you are an excellent guitarist who can teach crystal clearly.

Definitely one of the best teachers on yt ! Thank you for sharing such useful knowledge with us!

@willmetz_music

22 күн бұрын

Thank you!

So glad I found this channel. Content is well thought and no fluff. Keep it up! … and please don’t shorten your videos to accommodate those with short attention spans. Thank you!!

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I have seen countless videos and this is wonderfully and clearly explained. Great video

The section from 3:30-4:45 or so was enough to get my respect, my like and my subscription. I appreciate longform, non-baity, lesson style content. Thank you x1000

Thank you for the great long invested lesson! i love your attitude 😊

Great video Will. Thanks.

Brilliant work Guillaume. I watched the full video and learned quite a bit. Thank You.

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you. I truly appreciate your long form videos and your logical, useful explanations of music theory.

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for supporting me and having the patience to listen :)

Excellent example and a well thought out description of a practice routine. Thank your very much .... Keep up the great work. P.S. I did buy both of your books.

Your videos are excellent. No fluff, and enough depth for the intermediate guitarist to really dig deeper into music. Also, so much of music theory is misunderstood because people don't even try to explain the context of music, so pieces of theory just seem random. You take the time to give the detail, and also explain how that detail relates to everything else.

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

Thank you

Thanks!!!

i am learning piano, but i like your music theory, works for any instrument. great lesson and thx for sharing👍👏🙏

I really like your work Will! Thanks!

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

Thanks man!

Brilliant!! 😊 thank you...

gracias!

Very, very good information. You are a superb teacher. I delved deeply into learning modes, theory etc….but you unlocked the more simple secrets…that I neglected to learn (no good teacher…coupled with my ambition) Thanks. I will pursue your instructions.

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

This means a LOT to me. Thank you

I see metz upload, I binge metz. 🙏

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

Haha! Thanks my friend

@RonnieBanerjee007

3 ай бұрын

​@@willmetz_musicNo! Thank you! ❤️🙏🙇‍♂️

I’m in. Looking forward to your ideas.

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Long video, lots of content, well worth it in the end. I like your improvisation section. If you could display what chord you were improvising over would be really helpful. Another thing that would be really helpful would be a list of songs for beginner level to practice arpeggios without being too overwhelmed. Thanks for the great lesson 🙏🏼❤️

I’m systematically downloading all your docs and, like others have said, I feel like I’m stealing… New go-to channel.

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

You’re not stealing. And if you’re serious, join the waitlist of the academy!

VERY NICE CONTENT ! I really like the way you took your time to explain all this. I play bass and always thought that theory is the key to musical freedom. I already know all these basics but I must confess that transfering theory into action can sometime not be so easy but when it happens, it can turn into a real nice epiphany moment. I considered subscribeing right away and will definetly follow you. One question though (not related to music) : are you French ? BIGUP FROM PARIS.

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

Oui je suis de Paris!!

Well met, will metz

Thank you for this ! Note to self : 45:00

Amazing lesson, wonderful teaching. Thank you Will.

Cheers. The Bee Gees songs- if just jamming with people who know the songs are generally tricky to work out the key. Most pop music I can figure it out.

@katwoodytham8314

3 ай бұрын

Is their music more complex?

1st viewer, your courses are very useful thanks

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for supporting me!

Plus one! :)

I've been self taught for going on 4 years,, its all online,and its been a journey to say the least. Alot of what your saying is greek to me lol but im gona subscribe , cant afford a teacher , so i am doing what i can to try and at least understand this instrument.

@CgwWilson

3 ай бұрын

Been playing for four years, prior to that many years ago, don't understand theory, connect everything to master the keyboard, get better, and conceptualize the major and minor keys , etcetera...Thanks Will

@CgwWilson

3 ай бұрын

Wanting to understand the guitar e: g CAGED system, modes, etc.

I watch your complete videos

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

You’re one of a kind then! :) thank you

I have a question about the example of the chord progression in Fmaj. How do i distinguish between Fmaj and Bfmaj or Gm? Thank you for the great content! /Emil

@willmetz_music

Ай бұрын

I guess I’m having trouble understanding the question. What do you mean how to distinguish them?

Excellent instruction. I would advise you to get to around 47 much sooner. Work in an example quickly of what you are talking about. Thanks for the lesson!

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

The first 47 minutes are the most important of this whole lesson. Most of what guitarists need to focus on does not involve playing !

Wonderful video here Guillaume, I've just gotten through learning all the notes of the fretboard & now i will look to identify the notes to modes/scales for progressions in the way you've described here. Might be a while, but many thanks regardless 🫡

When will your new guitar book be available?

@willmetz_music

Күн бұрын

No guitar book in the works right now, I’m focusing on teaching in my academy:)

Hi Will Metz, First i would love appreciate you! thank you for your dedication making great videos. I am guitar beginner... i found it difficult learning bar chords finger position on every string... i tried searching videos they are very short and unclear, do you have any video suggestion? God bless you, Biyah From Ethiopia!

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

For specific technique elements, nothing beats and in person teacher, if you are an early beginner :)

"modes are scales" - brilliant!

@LoraxChannel

3 ай бұрын

Well, not exactly. Modes are tonal centers (which affect the sound of the scale) when using a scale. For example, the C maj scale has seven modes. Think of modes as "moods" of the C maj scale, because when you use modes you are just changing the way the C maj scale will sound (mostly by picking where you stop, and how the chord progression is laid out). In reality, there are only a few modes that anyone ever uses.

@RedMercuryBluesBand

3 ай бұрын

yeah I get the technical explanation, but I am a bit OCD and when former teachers said Dorian is the 2nd mode of lets say G I was lost LOL!... all I could hear in my head was G and couldn't figure out how the Dorian mode of G had anything to do with G! Had my teachers say something like 'when you have progression like say Santana Oye Como Va or a chord progression that is minor to maj use this "scale" mixed in and in addition to minor pentatonic etc..@@LoraxChannel

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

Modes are exactly scales. The fact that they are nested in another scale does not make them something different. If they were NOT scales, then the natural minor would not be a scale (since it is the 6th mode of the major scale). Yet... as far as I know, the natural minor scale is a scale just as much as it is a mode.

@RedMercuryBluesBand

3 ай бұрын

Agreed - having teachers give me modes without context was no favor to me - the teaching should have been more like 'if you encounter x type of chord sequence then apply x scale and oh by the way x scale is technically called a mode' .....LOL Love your channel Will!@@willmetz_music

@LoraxChannel

3 ай бұрын

@@RedMercuryBluesBand This was me, exactly. I didn't get it for almost a decade, and I knew basic theory pretty well, as well as knowing blues, major, minor, and M/m pentatonic scales relative to a chord (in other words, I was an intermediate player). The thing that got me to hear a mode was playing a single chord backing track (like just an A chord over and over, or a C chord over and over), and then playing all the modes over just that single chord. I did that playing the notes 1 to 8 and back 8 to 1 for each mode, and also played the 1 3 5 in each mode (when I write 1 3 5, I mean in reference to the mode, so in reference to the starting major scale, it would be 2 4 6, or 3 5 7, or whatever) I think if you do that, you will hear the difference. For me, a little light turned on, and I was like, "oh, there is a point to this whole mode thing." There is a different character to each mode. I know this isn't the end of the story. Song writers talk about modes and they seem to get used differently in chord progressions and advanced theory, but to me, just understanding the sound of a mode in a lead over a chord, got me on the path. I only really use 2 or 3 modes, because I'm not that great, and I mostly lead over pop, rock, or my current favorite, Spanish music. I started with Mixolydian first, because a lot of the players I like use it. I hope my experience helps, but just be warned, I'm no master. I'm just a guy that is sharing how the light turned on regarding modes in my journey. All the best !

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So....Say I get the harmonization from the major scale and understand how the chords change in a modal context.....same chords in a different order, is starting with a minor or major pentatonic and adding the modal tones over the appropriate chord the best way to approach improvisation or is there a better way/ side note, I havent finished the video yet

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

It’s my personal favorite way of improving over modes, yes. I use the pentatonic as my main framework and add the color notes of the mode.

damn I have been stuying piano / music theroy for almost 2 years now. and I was interested to see what someone would say in an hour with this clickbait title haha. and you didn't really go over anything of the title. like you kind of skimmed over the idea like that MInor 4 parallel in the beatles tune would be over dorian / or G minoor arpeggio or w/e that Major fights more with the natural 4 so you would use Lydian mode , over a major chord, but that's part of me knowing that, not you saying it. I guess I was just looking for what your title suggested, but I apperciate th content on invewrsion triads, because those are a bitch on the guitar and i have been trying to figure out how to look at that with drop / rootless voicings/ shells. My compaint/compliments all in one. take it or leave it. :) but I did sub because of the Caged Idea- which i hate and think is a crutch, but I will look at it your way . and you teach information with a way that's great.

@willmetz_music

3 ай бұрын

You can’t explain everything in 1h. These are the basics. PS: the parallel minor 4 is rarely Dorian.

@Phaseish

3 ай бұрын

yeah i get that I am just saying, but when I said dorian, I meant what you may play over. thanks though either way. @@willmetz_music

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I like music theory, but only a minute or two in, and this already sounds awfully complicated. Just tell me the chords. I didn't need to know how & why they came up with 'em. Ok, so it's in the key of C. What more do you need to know, if all you're gonna do is "noodle" around. That's not really improvising.

Not for me. Far too long-winded without getting to the point. I'm out, and unsubscribed.