THIS is My Favorite R&B Guitar Chord! [R&B Guitar Lesson from Kerry 2 Smooth]
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In this R&B guitar tutorial, I'm going to teach you my favorite chord - the minor 11 in the 6th string position. I learned this chord while in the army. It has a soft and subtle feel to it. Once I started using it, it quickly became my favorite chord!
I'm going to give you a guitar exercise you can use to learn this chord in the key of F. I’ll use this chord for the ii and iii in the Key of F Major. The chord progression I’m doing is ii-iii-vi. Instead of doing the minor 7, I’m using the minor 11. Then I challenge you to interchange the minor 7 and the minor 11 within the same chord progression.
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In this video, Kerry 2 Smooth shares what is his favorite R&B guitar chord. He’ll show you how to play it, and then he teaches you an exercise you can practice using the ii-iii-vi chord progression.
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@pio5495
4 жыл бұрын
Can you do a tutorial for the application of triads and inversions to theory/songwriting
@OdaKa
4 жыл бұрын
What does "minor 11 shape in the six string position" mean? Do you mean minor 11 chord with the root on the 6th string? It's kinda throwing me off to hear the word "shape" used outside of the context of the CAGED system.
@Kerry2smooth
4 жыл бұрын
Pio I have lesson on my site that cover that. Kerryskamp.com
@jadiahwashington6750
4 жыл бұрын
I like that chord I always played it different
@adoris864
3 жыл бұрын
You're an excellent teacher, I love the way you break things down. But unless I missed something, I don't know what you mean when you say playing in the sixth string position. ???? Please explain what you mean. Thank you for what you do.
That minor 11 chord shap is going to be a staple in chord vocabulary! Thanks, Kerry!
Can you do D’Angelo- When We Get By!? I feel like your style would compliment it very well. Also it’d make a dope lesson
KERRRRRYYY my guitar playing has grown leaps and bounds since learning with you bro Rasta love stay bless brother great lesson.
That wammy bar really takes it to another level
You drop all these dope licks when you teach. It would dope to learn a bunch of those licks!
Bro my name is Clarence and I’m from Gary Indiana now live in Minneapolis Minnesota, you play and teach very well! I’m relearning the guitar because of you. Thank you
@Kerry2smooth
11 ай бұрын
That is awesome! Keep it going! We're here every Tuesday!
Goosebumps! Beautiful
Love the way you’re teaching!❤
Love the way you’re teaching!
Excellent class, instructions and presentation.
love this chord, thank you man!
Profound Video! Fantastic job on this video.
Thanks for sharing Maestro 🔥
You are awesome!!!!
Loving it man!
Kerry you're a legend man
Love your teaching techniques
I will use this chord. Thanks for the insight.
Love your teaching style! Been learning alot from these videos thank you!
This lesson is a real gem, the type of thing you can go and immediately add to lots and lots of songs. Real nice to add that typical RnB richness to the chord vocab. THX K2S!
Amazing teacher! keep it up. You're helping me progress a lot!
I caught that K2S. Keep 'em coming cause I'm smiling from ear to ear. Lol
So good! Thank you.
I love the way you r teaching for real. loving it man for real
Excellent instruction, finding my way back to guitar,
Thank you Kerry! You are an excellent musician and phenomenal teacher! You stated you didn’t want to feel overwhelmed. That is so true about how we all feel while trying to learn. I love these videos and how you break down for free the levels of expertise!! Keep on keepin on!
Thank you
Love your work!!! Keep it up buddy!
Great video!
I'm amazed on how much I learn in just a couple of minutes and for it to be simple and not too intimidating to learn. Thank you Kerry! Love the way you teach too!
Your teaching is just so super 😊
These chords sound beautiful together, thank you 😁
Thank you so much
Youre the best thanks!!!!!! I love this flavor 💙
Very nice! I love the soft color of that m11
to be honest, one of the best channels on whole utube for guitar players, no dumb talk just straight knowledge & examples, great and tasty playing btw ,
Excellent lesson Kerry! Learned about the minor 11th chord in Kerry’s Kamp along with the Bill Withers song Lovey Day which I absolutely love playing! Also when I leaned about the number system on your site as well. That said thanks for the well explained clear and concise “focused” lesson which really reinforced my understanding of it. Also thanks for the chord charts, that’s always a plus as well. Much respect and continued success!
In the last 6 months Kerry has given my playing a boost. Here for example, I had the minor 11 chord as a root for the minor pentatonic (6 chord). Now I have it as 2 and 3 chord in a major scale. Sounding sweet 🌴
@jojo-fj7lw
2 жыл бұрын
What do you mean by minor pentatonic (6chord)??
Love your sound amazing.. peace and blessings to you my brother thanks for sharing
Really enjoy the chord choice s n feels you use….thank you
This is so inspiering! thanks so much for sharing!!
Great video & chord
I love what you're doing. I could noodle for hours with this.
Loved the video , thanks for the images of the chords it really helps.
@Kerry2smooth
4 жыл бұрын
chilix vibe good deal!
This right here is why I am subscribed to you thank you
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and insight.
@Kerry2smooth
4 жыл бұрын
Random Button Pusher good deal!!
This is Awesome! and those fills are boss !!
love your sound
@Kerry2smooth
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
More good stuff. I like the way that there's often other bits and pieces that you play while showing these points that are worth picking up on too. Cheers.
Dig it! Thank you
Thank you for your service. Thanks for the lesson and I am substituting the M11 on everything now.
Great teaching bro - always dropping nuggets 👌
Thanks Kerry love these videos, even when I don't have my guitar to play along with. Having something to work towards is important to me.
i like how you teach.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Belize.
I really like them
I'm catching on... That's a beautiful chord progression. Thanks 💪
I like the way you're teaching! Keep it up man you're such a wonderful person
I have learn a lot from you and my playing has change.thanks to you
man im loving these lesson keep going
@Kerry2smooth
2 жыл бұрын
More to come!
Thank you good tips
@Kerry2smooth
2 ай бұрын
You're welcome! I appreciate you checking out the video!
This is gold my friend, thank you! What a Beautiful voicing 🙏♥️🙌
As usual, sir. I am mind blown. This lesson on the minor 11th shape in the 6th string position, has changed my life. You rock, bro. All the time. Every time. Big ups
amazing stuff
@Kerry2smooth
4 жыл бұрын
MisterTracks thx!
I like that!
Man... Love your teaching & all yo lessons👍. I'm a slow slow learner.. but I got to say you very much appreciated. Seems to be whenever I'm down.. I always seem to pull-up a leeson from you that brings me up. ( & I've been a 3yrs beginner.. Learning from you when time allows me too. Now this Virus stuff happening... I would love to play good & smooth to bring softness & calming joy to people's heart with smooth guitar playing. I'ma keep practicing.. I've been wanting to join your camp.. but time & money has me on pause/ but one day I'll join. I do have a couple of your lessons on Vime that I need to go back too for tuning-up. It was overwhelming when I purchased it.. but little by little I'm learning & understanding more. I couldn't just jump in it as I assumed. I just turned 50 in November & my brain & everything is slowly....(changing is the best way I can explain it.) Anyway.. I've been commenting with you over the years...& just saying.. Thanks once again..& God Bless You & your Family!👍🙏
@johnmcaleese8459
3 жыл бұрын
Anthony, I hear ya on that 50 thing. Not too cool. Hey, do what we can do !! Make things worse, last year, fell 25ft off utility pole during an ice storm up in the mountains of Pa. Own artificial ribcage now and I know my head took a major rattle. Played decades ago and decided to get back into it since work is history. Sorry'bout the bio. Peace. Enjoy our guitars.
Subscribed good shit bro! And thanks!!
Thanks Bro !!!
I love the way you teach. I'd like to see you create a complete piece over 3 videos, planning - progressions, chord choice, mood choice and feel. The practice - the development of the idea, alterations and additions made, and the final piece plus breakdown - you know, that "2Smooth" magic! 90 second piece, so we can really see how to explore and develop a complete idea beyond phrases. So we can see in context how licks and phrases fit within a given framework. Hope that makes sense. Great work 👏
Thank you so much Kerry, love those slick moves you play in passing, I'd love to know more of that to spice up my passing chords
I appreciate you I learned that cord in a John Mayer song and only knew how to use it in that John Mayer song now it makes a lot more sense
Dammit, you've done it again! Thx my man! Ur videos, my axe! Let's get it!
True, I’ve always seen you use the minor eleven, I don’t get used to using it! I need to get it into my muscle memory! You make it sound 2smooth!
You have a very unique style...very cool😎
Thanks Kerry this lesson was very timely for me as I'm trying to get out of the rut of playing the same chord forms over again. Keep them coming mate cause you're way too smooth ;}
I like your r and b plus gospel music cords.
You're doing just fine Kerry 😀. I am new to your channel but I also follow a few other RnB "how to" channels so that's why I can say that. I especially like your emphasis on feel and doing only what's right for the song without over complicating things. Also you actually sound like the guitar parts I hear on songs rather than just giving a technical lesson.
Great lesson. I've used a similar chord just without the 11th, I'll have to mix this shape into my playing
Nice chords.
Nice vid. The minor 7th shape from which your min 11 is taken will also give a softer sound. I tend to use that shape more anyway, but they all have their spots.
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Solid my dude!
Where have you been? Feels like find my breakthru🤩🔥
I use that alot myself you teach some cool things I enjoy your free lessons I been playing for 48 years I play with a old school Funk Band here in Denver Colorado thanks for the video ☮️ Peace.
Definitely one of my favorite “go to” chords....along with the minor 9th chord, minor 11th has a “sympathetic” voicing to it...definitely more DYNAMIC and DARK in my opinion....THANX 4 SHARING THIS CLIP....!!
@rileymerino6340
4 жыл бұрын
Minor 9 I think is brighter than minor 7 in my opinion!
EXCELLENT job as always please would you do a video on using guitar effects particularly reverb and how you use it.
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Love the minor 11 as well bro. I like to bounce between it a minor 9th, 11th and 6th. I come a cross them learning to play some Brazilian music. Keep it up the good work. Enjoy your playing and teaching. Thanks for your service. Fellow vet. I did 3 years all in Germany and also learn stuff from other players I met.
That’s a great chord. I learned that plus many others from Mickey Baker’s book that was published in the 50s
Love your playin style,I play nothin but metal but man your tone is amazing and definitely opened my eyes more to being more open to new playing styles so I'm gonna be cruisin your channel now for info for more progressive style of playing! Good stuff man!!
This is that “Smooth n Sweet Chord” playing that gets them droppin’ drawers🤫
@Kerry2smooth
4 жыл бұрын
Lex 🤣
@Drogers8675
4 жыл бұрын
That takes the D chord...
Just discovered the channel, dude you are an awesome instructor. Thank you
@Kerry2smooth
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Very nice work, Kerry, thanks so much. I learned a lot from this lesson. The diagrams as you play are super helpful, so could you please include them when you play your fills, along with an explanation from you about why you're using them? That would add a lot and be really beneficial. Thanks!
Good deal. I never knew that was a minor 11th Ive always played it and knew it was minor by the way it sounded. Consequently I knew what that was without actually knowing what it is. Really good way to have it all tie in together. Good video.
I love what you do bro, I’ve been following you for years👏🏾👏🏾 Two suggestions : When you go back to animate your videos, add all the chords you play through out the video, so as you play, the pop up in the bottom right of the screen for example Secondly I would love for you to talk through sound choices on ME 80 for styles on lead ,grooving and worship settings I think that would really help me grow and follow what you are teaching for more easier
Sounds beautiful. In a band situation, you can use different inversions higher up on the fretboard because there's a bass player.
Very cool video. Always great to learn new voicings. I came to the sudden realization the other day that an add 9 chord is also the m11 chord a minor third down minus the root. So Bb add9= Gm11.
Cool! Got to experiment with that minor 11 shape! I was Army too! 82 - 95 👍🏾👍🏾
Kerry I love that minor 11 chord as well. Sometimes I have issues transitioning from one chord to the minor, but I'm getting it down. Oh by the way, I was in the US Army as well. Good stuff!!