Could have labeled this video "how to play bass" and it would contain 90% of the exact same thing. But this is also by far the most important thing I've learnt in music and has probably made me more money outside of actually being able to play.

@Bacopa68

5 жыл бұрын

I'd say this kind of thing is even more important bass. Riffing on just the chord tones, running slightly ahead of chord changes from another instrument, or if you're in a power trio simply filling up the harmonic space the guitarist is hoping for is the difference between a good bassist and a bad one.

@sriessen4561

5 жыл бұрын

???

@matttheknife3652

5 жыл бұрын

Kids

@Bacopa68

5 жыл бұрын

supersam What I'm saying is that bass should emphasize these returns in the guitar line to the chord tones by either hitting the root, inverting, or disambiguating the chord.

@maxonmendel5757

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, bass playing and light lead guitar playing are surprisingly similar

I played piano before guitar and since you play the chords and the melody, you learn this inherently. Good video, I find with playing with/ talking to other guitarists that people are severely lacking in music theory. It's kind of like talking: everyone can make noise with their vocal chords but there's a big difference between that and language.

I gotta say, the example without any chord tones sounded pretty damn good. Those tensions make it sound great.

@samuraiguitarist

5 жыл бұрын

Here's the cool thing about this concept. If you prefer the way those sound, by understanding the system and understanding where they are you could interject them quite easily.

@KadeKalka

5 жыл бұрын

samuraiguitarist Yeah man, I'm absolutely going to learn to visualize this. I know it'll help me out a lot! :D

This is just so great and so helpful. I feel like you’ve given me a year jump forward on my guitar learning!

Thank you for this video. This is exactly where I feel like I am in my learning, and it's been hard to figure out what to look for to get advice. I'm excited to dig into this over the next year. You're the best.

Thank you for making it so simple. Was overwhelmed by all the videos, & I've been looking for a video that actually makes me wanna practice the subject

Love the Sensei Series. Developed this approach, myself, awhile back, and practice it (to varying degrees) all the time. My thing is, i really need to start writing songs so i have something to apply all of this soloing and arrangement knowledge to. Somehow, i have mystified the song in my head. Anyway, thanks, as always, for your great, clear, well paced videos. And i was psyched to see you and Adam Neely in a video.

This is awesome. I had taken a music theory class 10 years ago, forgotten a bit of it, and taken said class again in college a few months ago. I understood everything you demonstrated and displayed! I feel like a good tip to show your viewers is an ear training exercise on basic Major and minor chord sounds, as well as perfect unison/4th/5th/octave, major and minor 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7ths. Do it in like phrygian or ionian! Keep up the good content \m/

This is the perfect next step for my musical journey! Thanks Steve!

I began practicing like things some months ago, the efforts paid me back, now i visualize better which notes i want to underline both in standard and open C tuning

I’ve been playing guitar for six years, but I actually followed your link to the 4 pillars page and learned something, so everybody ought to check into that!

The most important thing I've learned is the f# minor. Because that's the best

This series is so helpful. You are forever my sensei sir.

Ooohhh, this has made modes make sense clearer that the other 2 videos (or maybe it put in all in context). I was this close to putting it to Neely’s Q&A. Thanks!

Man thank you so much. These videos​ are so helpful and inspiring.

Heyyy neat lesson. I stumbled into a similar way of visualizing the board's scales and their relationships to chords. Since I didn't get taught theory officially, I just muddled through with figuring out the various patterns along the board depending on where the root is. So, if the key is C, but there's an Am playing, I know the 'shapes' that land me on the Am's root, 5th, minor 3rd and 7th in each position. This way I don't know what note I'm playing (or at least, I didn't when I started) but I'm still hitting the 'important' notes relative to the chord being played. I'll be watching this video a few times over... it's about time I started learning what notes are which (gonna hit up that ear training one too). Thanks, keep it up!

I've been playing guitar and piano for around 25 years and I still learn something new or at least a new idea when I watch these. My piano skills are way above my guitar skills so this channel has been really helpful in finding ways to apply the stuff I already know on piano to my guitar. THANKS>!

Finally! I have been trying for years to be able to do "chord tone" soloing. I understood what the idea was I just never got over the hump to put it into use. This video changed all of that. It is all clear. I see the fretboard in "chord tones" now! After a couple hours of practice last night I am on my way. Lots of hours of practice to go, but at last I can do it. Thank you! You helped me more than you will ever realize.

Really good stuff! When I used to play lots of guitar, this would have been super helpful! Maybe I'll get back into it!

Violinist breaking into improvisation here (also amateur guitarist). This is exactly that hard practice that I have been avoiding but I am fortunate that you have laid it out in this way. Now I have no excuses to not practice!

Good video. You’re speaking to the people that learned sequential scalar things. People like Carol Kaye will say chord tone playing should be done almost before learning scales to not mess with your ears. She believes the beauty is in the chords themselves. Ultimately it’s all the same thing but I think she has a point.

Arigato, Sensei. You really are an excellent teacher.

Great vid, thanks for the practice tips !

The most important thing I learned is when in doubt play 00000000000000000

@legaciestr

5 жыл бұрын

Relatively Large Matt fuck yeah

@theaddictofgaming9174

5 жыл бұрын

Metal, or Punk

@josejalaeno73

3 жыл бұрын

Le epic Kerry king has arrived 😎

Always great advice man!

I just got into your videos and they're amazing. This one in particular really helped me today. Oh I think there is a mistake on the chart for the IV chord on the lower two strings, probably forgot to change them from the chord before (at 6:08). Thank you again c: really inspiring stuff man!

You are a true guitar samurai and scholar, and I adore your videos, and I'd love them even more if you put music notation alongside the tablature. It's hard to follow along the actual harmony and development of things from just looking at the tab

I am now enlightened. Thank you.

Awesome lesson!

This was really helpful! :)

I like to just play Spotify or Pandora, learn the chords to the song, and then work out a Melody/solo over those chord tones. it keeps me thinking and not locked in to fiddling around while I'm practicing, and I learn a decent amount of songs doing it. It's a great way to learn how to compliment chords and not just solo all Willy nilly.

Man, you really are a sensei. Great video, as always. Have you given any thought to perhaps use some of Zen Guitar's concepts? I truly think those concepts are crucial to becoming a master of the instrument. I've been playing for 35 years and I still use those ideas on a regular basis. I think your style would be a perfect compliment to that book.

The major 7 on the end of the second example was gold

Love your videos man 🙏🙌

@samuraiguitarist

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I know zip about music theory but plan to study it, hey I started playing guitar at about 9 and at 48 I decided it was time to actually learn chords and notes so as you see I am serious about it lol. Even though I had no clue what you were saying, really still don't lol, I found that I actually pretty much do what you were saying to do, I just don't use all that fancy language you use like "chords" and "scales" lolol... Anyway, good lesson Senseii now this grasshopper is gonna play his brand new Tele after seeing you playing yours!

Great, a new thing to try for the next 2 days until I get tired and go back to search tabs!

Chord tones are amazing. When working on my lead abilities, I will find a chord tone, and then see how many roads I can take to land on that chord tone at the right time, using diatonic boxing or chromatic boxing. It's like being able to "see the Matrix."

Great video! I really appreciate the passion you've showed in helping others

I’m going to come back to this video after I branch further into Theory thanks samurai

Thank you, sensei 🤘🏽

anyone else noticed the New Light shirt from JM?

This is as brute force as it gets. I'll continue exploring for a more practical approach, thanks.

I love your videos so much

This is great!

I understand numbers about as well as I understand Esperanto. But shapes and patterns make sense to me.

Love your videos Sammi G first and foremost!!! 🤘However, can't help but think about my high school speech teacher teaching us not to speak in a "sing songy" manner. You're doing amazing work and please don't take this as anything other than constructive criticism. Thanks for your content 🤘

this was brilliant

2:20 - every student’s first solo after learning the major scale.

@Rb-ys6xb

4 жыл бұрын

Lol your not lying

2:13 i actually thought that was quite nice :(

@TheKirkYates

5 жыл бұрын

Right?

@scorinth

5 жыл бұрын

I won't say you're wrong, but I will say you're *weird*.

@theaddictofgaming9174

5 жыл бұрын

Some of it did

@failgod9079

4 жыл бұрын

If it started on a chord tone the whole thing would sound better

@chinchillachinchilla4036

4 жыл бұрын

That last note was very nice haha

Been working on this for several months, seeing the guitar as a series of connected triads (chord tones) really is the way. It's kind of funny that eventually you don't even care about the note names, but rather the intervals and become key agnostic.

You should do a video on essential tools for guitarists

hey samurai love your clips! very helpful and useful! another topic for your sensai series: with my band, we got some arguments how we should split the legal rights of our songs. i think it should be split into 5 similar parts for every bandmember. because i think we put all the same effort in it. our singer thinks, he's written the biggest part of the songs, so he should get more. what do you think? what should we consider by fixing it? is there a 'right' way? keep on.

This is great. I love this

damn i really really liked the melody with only scale tones that weren't part of the chord. was kinda shocked when you said it was ugly haha

@brkfstchmp

5 жыл бұрын

Same, but I think its because it implies a different chord

Thanks

Do you think you could make a video for beginner guitarists, i play piano and love the sound of guitar but can't wrap my head around what note is what on the guitar, this would be a huge help if you could!

True Master... Sorry, sensei, senpai, what ever... Great

Hey samurai dude! I think I spotted a mistake. In 6:08 you are establishing the F note as your root (F major) but you're noting the last note (C, high E string - 8th fret) as your root (R) whereas it should be noted as the fifth (5). Heh maybe you did it on purpose to see how many of us will actually do the exercise. Great vid as always. Cheers

Most important thing is to have fun👍👍👍

@samuraiguitarist

5 жыл бұрын

Truth

@martinkrauser4029

5 жыл бұрын

very clever but what if you're playing jazz

5 жыл бұрын

They all say that until they are asked to solo over a typical rhythm changes in Bb.

Hey, great video. I have a suggestion to improve the way you highlighted the tab sections of the video. It took me forever to figure out which notes were highlighted as red or green because I am slightly red-green color blind. So, if you have another video in the future where you need to highlight two items certain colors as a key, I'd recommend red and blue. They are much easier colors to tell the difference between for those who are some form of color blind.

@supermanflip19

5 жыл бұрын

seeing the other sections now noticing the one with red, blue, and green. You could replace red with something more orange or dark purple. I wouldn't do yellow cause of the white background

@samuraiguitarist

5 жыл бұрын

Fair critique I appreciate it!

@BarneyFife00

5 жыл бұрын

Justin Graham 10%-15% of males are colour blind to some degree. Sometimes it depends on different combination of colors like red-green.

@ferramirez4570

5 жыл бұрын

Stop the color blind hate!

Great lesson, just don’t think I’m ready for this yet, be back in 6 months

@samuraiguitarist

5 жыл бұрын

Good call, no point working on things that won't benefit you yet. Come back when you are ready!

@archiethornton2812

5 жыл бұрын

samuraiguitarist Thanks man!

@theaddictofgaming9174

5 жыл бұрын

It's been 6 months...

how can you solo on a fast chord changes? I need help

this seems impossible, like I have to become a computer knowing all these numbers per scale... and then they all change when the chord changes? Am I misunderstanding? How the hell do I memorise all that, I cant even remember my parents phone numbers>>!

@dariomartinez6358

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah how the fuck are we supposed to memorize that for all 12 scales?

@b.ciosaki2991

3 жыл бұрын

This is my biggest dilemma within music. It always seems I'm not getting something right.

@hellishlycute

3 жыл бұрын

just practice lots and lots and call chords by their roman numerals, this way the chord tones will be the same for every 12 scales also as he said you wont think about the numbers once you get used to it

@teamyordle23

3 жыл бұрын

​@@dariomartinez6358 All 12 scales? You mean the 12 keys of the major/minor scale in terms of 12 tone equal temperament?

@dariomartinez6358

3 жыл бұрын

@@teamyordle23 mmm yeah like all the major scales for all the notes C G D A E B F#/Gb Db Ab Eb Bb F

Gotcha

If the chord is say a major 7th is the 7th note of the scale now a chord tone. (Is a chord tone any note in the chord)

Came for the theory, stayed for the John Mayer New Light sweater.

your first example sounded like a better version of James Blunt 😀

I'm confused on the entire topic. Are you saying that while the chord progression changes I should change what scale I'm playing respectively? Like is the chord progression goes from E to F#m I should go from a E major scale to a F# minor scale?

@sebastianelghaity5685

3 жыл бұрын

thats more of a jazz technique, he's just saying you should sprinkle in chord tones to outline the harmony when possible. If you're in E major, you can use those notes, but you should highlight the chord tones of the F#minor scale to help the melody seem like it's part of the piece

3:55 in other words bebop.

@samuraiguitarist

5 жыл бұрын

Most definitely!

Cool

The all green version sounds familiar.

2:14 I bet I can do a lot worse! But that's how I do it. Only now I'm going chord tone hunting! Also I hear a lot about the major 3rd as a chord tone...why is that interval so key? Thanks

@Hello_there_obi

3 жыл бұрын

Because from there you can flatten it by one semitone to make it minor. Lower it by a whole tone to get a sus2 sound and raise it by a semitone to get a sus4 sound. Also, if you just played the root and fifth, they would fit in both major and minor chords. They are very stable and hence more boring. Playing the major third/minor third in a solo will make it sound more melodic. A major chord has: root, major third, fifth A minor chord has: root, minor third, fifth. So C major is: C E G And C minor is: C Eb G So you can see that the sonically distinguishing chord tone is the third. That’s why your solo will sound more melodic.

Nice shirt boss

any tips for someone who have short fingers?

I bought the pdf...do you have diagrams for the standard 5 caged fingerings?

@samuraiguitarist

5 жыл бұрын

I have never worked with the CAGED system or if I have I haven't ever thought of it that way. For anything in the open position you just imagine the lowest fretted note as the open string. Hope that makes sense.

Should i also be calling out the names of the notes aside from the intervals?

@DrumWild

5 жыл бұрын

Nah. The names of the notes do not matter in his example. It's more about how they relate to the chords.

Have you ever made a course? If not, you should.

@samuraiguitarist

5 жыл бұрын

I want to but it's a major time investment that takes away from posting here. It's on the to do list!

@crustyplunger8738

5 жыл бұрын

Its awesome that you do these videos. Makes learning guitar much easier for beginners like me.

@frankschrodinger1424

5 жыл бұрын

Get a truefire gig

Wait that first clip sounds like an appregio run on chord it self.

If this video has done anything it’s shown me that I’m not practicing in the right areas. I’m trying to get at a place where I can write music, but anything I write sounds plain and conventional and when I try to break the mold it ends up just sounding bad. So this video has shown me that I was pretty stupid to try to write music without knowing a lot of this key stuff that goes into making music sound good.

2:13 Jazz

* Outside the box note played * Jazz intensifies

So is this just memorization like learning the scales?

Sensei Squad where ya'll at

The most important thing i learned is probably playing standing up sometimes too. Oh you mean guitar?

29th!

Nope I’m still screwed I found 1 or 2 mapping. Mapping of G and mapping C...

@bored9260

4 жыл бұрын

Hehehe... I found one map but it’s confusing as heck not knowing the range of a note. If it is a Sharp or is it to be a minor... the chart I found doesn’t discriminate..

I'm so confused. Isn't that C major scale you played the A pentatonic? >

@hyly8038

3 жыл бұрын

If you mean the one at 4:52, then no. I’m assuming you meant the A minor pentatonic. The C major scale includes all the notes from Am pentatonic but with the addition of F natural and B natural. On another note, C major pentatonic has all the same notes as A minor pentatonic, they just start in different places. These scales definitely have similarities, so that might be what you’re noticing. Hope this helps!

This is how you jazz.

So should you practice this in every mode-position for every chord in every key? (if that makes sense). Nice video!

Why is it called #11 rather than #4 ??! Always confuses me

@officialrohinmusic

5 жыл бұрын

It's because these numbers represent chord tensions rather than base chord notes. The higher the number, the more tension but less chord-defining note. For example, if you added a 13th to C major then that note adds colour and tension, but it still 'feels' like C major. Removing the 13th doesn't change the overall sound that much. Compare that to a flat 7th, and that actually changes the chord into a C7, which has a completely different feeling to C major. If we named it a 4th instead of an 11th it wouldn't emphasize the tension and colour of these notes because the root, 3rd and 5th define the chord. I hope all of this makes sense to you.

"Any piece of music has an underlying harmony - that is the chords that the melody is played over top off" Some metal genres might want to have a word about chords

@nataliagonzalez1698

5 жыл бұрын

Peter DD 0-0-0-0

@hahahadracula

5 жыл бұрын

I don't know what you listen but if you want chords in metal check out keep of kalessin.

you're here for video, what are you doing in comments if i may ask?

Why am I getting notification after 5 days R.I.P KZread

@DeweyManloveX

5 жыл бұрын

Are you commenting from the future?

@joshc.6760

5 жыл бұрын

you mean five minutes

@sebsebsebbbb8390

5 жыл бұрын

DeweyManloveX dude, shes from the fcking futuuuree

@oldgoat381

5 жыл бұрын

These are uploaded several days in advance as unlisted videos, then patrons of a certain level are given early access a day or two before it becomes a public video

@sirdix1653

5 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment 5 star

so this needs to be learned in every key ?

@teamyordle23

3 жыл бұрын

You don't "need" to learn it in every key. But a professional musician knows how to play in every key. If you're still learning then I would suggest sticking to 1 or 2 keys and practicing the concepts there. There's no point in learning all 12 keys of the major/minor scale if you don't know how to use it. So just stick to 1 or 2 then branch out later.

Samurai, I love your videos, and wish I had half the guitar skills you possess. But when I listen to you speak on these videos, it sounds like you're reading a script and trying to rush through the text, in a monotone. I think a more relaxed, conversational, improv style of speaking will help you convey your thoughts better for the audience. But hey, what do I know, I have 0 followers, and you have over 200k. LOL! Anyway, I'm a big fan, and want to thank you for your videos.

Why does your Bass have 6 strings?

wow literaly 1 dislike damn that just means that there is only one idiot that didnt find this fucking awsome lel

no u

haha. non chord tones sounds so much better. maybe ive spent too long listen to prog.

Aaaaannnnddd my ADHD is gonna prevent me from being able to learn anything here. Too much technical jargon.