Augmented Guitar Chords 101

[@getenlightened]

I have a feeling I'll be back to watch this one multiple times.

[@gigi78222]

Have the same feeling too

[@seiph80]

@@gigi78222 me too

[@cougark.6381]

Me too

[@aeksinsang932]

Grabbed a pencil and paper

[@chrisrosencrans]

I bounce between this one and Jake at Signal Studios lol

[@educostanzo]

First lesson about aug chords that really made me hear them differently and understand more about their characteristic. How come noone teaches us about aug chords symmetry! And your progression examples are really fantastic, thanks!

[@chusssMusic]

Great lesson as usual. This one specifically opened new doors for me. Thanks Mike.

[@fretjamguitar]

Glad it helped. It's been a while, but new lesson on its way tomorrow.

[@primoroy]

First time augmented chords have made sense! AMAZING! Thank you. 😀

[@MrPeres1989]

The best free guitar lesson i've ever seen. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@hangloose3508]

holy shit dude, one of the best theory videos, i really loved the progression examples

[@craigbennett660]

The best lesson on augmented chords. The examples used for application is amazing. Most people never go into how to use these chords. Amazing job.

[@jaydoebud]

Always a treat to see fretjam pop up .

[@tres913]

I couldn't live without your channel. Thanks.

[@asamiyashin444]

Great explanation. In some music theory classes they usually explain the augmented chords but not how to use them in a key context, what is the most important thing.

[@NitishShiggaon]

I cannot thank you enough for your lessons. These are just so brilliant and well structured!

[@hewhomustnotbenamed2470]

That very last progression is absolutely beautiful.

[@kishanhebbarmusic9543]

This is the best lesson on Augmented chords on YT! Thank you!

[@allgoodthingsintheworld6009]

Best guitar Teacher in KZbin

[@BorealBlue]

Congratulations dude you are totally the first person that has made any sense of theory for me. I watch and rewatch (and rewatch) so could be just the 'sinking in' thing but I'm pretty sure its your explanations. This lesson in particular. Thank you.

[@Racosz]

Due to symmetry, augmented chords divide the octave in three equal parts (12/3 = 4) and it implies that augmented chords have four possibilities of transposition (C-E-G#, Db-F-A, D-F#-A#, Eb-G-B). By means of enharmonic spelling, an only augmented chord has three possibilities of resolution. For instance, CAug (C-E-G#) can resolve into a F major chord, into a Db major chord (Ab-C-E leads to Db major ) and into a A major chord (E-G#-B# leads to A major). All these resolution chords have a intervalic relation of major third each other. Excellent channel and video. Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia.

[@yuribillones5094]

Dayyumm one of the best lessons I've learned since the quarantine. This is a gateway chord! Could you expand as to how it relates to the whole tone scale???

[@seiph80]

Good idea

[@iDelirium90]

Awesome stuff and above all, I loved the iim7b5 > V13 > I+M7 > Iadd6/9 vibe! Thanks for sharing!

[@seiph80]

Awesome video! The Guess Who's "Laughing" and Oasis' "Let There Be Love" use augmented chords unashamedly. Love it!

[@fretjamguitar]

Oh yeh "Let There Be Love" is a beautiful example of an augmented tonic chord.

[@jcruise24]

These lessons are literally the best, this lesson alone taught me so much

[@daverobertson1245]

I cannot praise this channel highly enough. These videos are so informative and helpful, can't wait for the next one whatever the topic is going to be!

[@andrejz8954]

Your lessons are really something else. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, truly. Great work!!

[@WazzeyqT]

Very enjoyable lesson. It is truly clear and it has got me nearer to understand the augmented chords. + in fact nice progressions.

[@metrictensor3197]

An absolutely fantastic explanation. Thank you.

[@BrijeshKhumaar]

Thank you fretjam... you are the best

[@cfel6879]

These lessons are so well put together. I have learnt so much already

[@StarDarkAshes]

8:15 first chord change of Prince Purple Rain

[@johncostopoulos7741]

Great tutorial. Many thanks! Will definitely visit this video often!

[@iggykarpov]

02:12 Train ears and eyes as to how convert common shapes to aug 02:23 C to Caug 02:50 D to Daug 03:01 E to Eaug 03:15 G to Gaug 03:28 A to Aaug 03:40 B7 to Baug 04:00 Aug sus2 04:39 Aug chords function in progressions 05:04 Augment I chord to destabilize it 05:26

[@ToneD5150]

Lessons don't get any better that this...!!!

[@GRJ-uz7kf]

Excellent. I knew about the symmetry of diminished chords (based on an octave consisting of 3 stacked minor 3rds) but I never thought about a symmetry based on major 3rds.

[@62zulmy]

Tough subject & you made it simple. Thank You.

[@josefinigo7100]

Genious and superb Professor...only from U.K.!!!

[@rohitray6206]

Thank you sir for this beautiful lessons

[@damonshanabarger2604]

21:14 You saved the best for last. I also like the one at 10:12

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

Short version for those who already know the basics of functional harmony, and who are here mostly for music theory: augmented chords tend to function as either less stable mediants or dominants without the tritone - and they're symmetrical, so you can invert them as much as you like without changing any of the internal intervals. (I'm mostly explaining this to myself, but if it helps someone else understand things a little better I consider that a good thing)

[@hejduke9060]

Love your teaching style.

[@Whitewallsessions]

Such a cool sound. Very Pink Floyd

[@regolithia]

Us & Them!

[@ganazby]

Very clearly explained. Thank you.

[@LaGuitarraChapina]

Amazing job you've been doing with this channel! Let me tell you I am from Guatemala and just found it! And I was so educated with only one vídeo I just watched and from now on totally suscribed and aware in order to get mire vídeos and learn! THANK YOU from the deep of my heart!

[@fretjamguitar]

Thank you my friend. So glad I could help.

[@johnnydark6876]

WELL DONE, EASY TO FOLLOW.

[@123ubuntu666]

Augmented chords are where I draw the line. I got enough problems with the other ones and all. Good to see you rocking fretjam. :-)

[@fretjamguitar]

+123ubuntu666 Yeh aug chords are more like a "nice to know". If you're still working on other chords I'd focus on those. These can wait.

[@lexvdw]

Very very good lesson!

[@MarcoNegro]

Exellent explanation, thank you!

[@GardenOfHedon]

*awesome* lesson. Thank you- I love augmented chords & this has given me a lot to think about. Very inspiring! 🍻

[@marklillquist7955]

Great graphics!!! Thanks bro

[@RD-wg2nt]

Another simple lesson 👍

[@kevincasals2008]

Thanks for the lesson

[@sciencetypeperson2401]

Thank you so much for this!

[@rjbeckham4786]

Excellent explanation.....thanks bro

[@govindtkg]

Thanks for providing precious info !!!!

[@GRJ-uz7kf]

These graphics are the very best; we see the fretboard from the angle of the player, not upside own; and no video fingers obstructing what's going on.

[@amitkanade1983]

Nice video, pretty informative, could you do such a video for diminished chords as well?

[@jockeyjockey123]

As always at the top.i always enjoy whatever you droped here since. i just have small question. if you don't mind .what software do you always use for your guitar lessons? thanks in advance.

[@thesilvertranscriber6247]

Brilliant & Clever as always ! Thanks

[@darrensmusicstudio]

Excellent lessons!

[@operatorenabla8398]

6:00 In the court of the crimson king!!!!

[@MinhPhamGators]

This is just awesome. Thank you.

[@karcarah]

The best channel

[@abhishekraj9368]

Still brilliant! Where have you been Mike?

[@wariowario138]

Impeccable video.

[@mixmixture7049]

Yeah actually can be function for resolution too Tonic or chord changes ( same function like diminished). We can go Melodic minor half step above root of chord ( + ), and whole tone on root of chord exactly.

[@jojo-fj7lw]

Can you elaborate on this?

[@ThomasHope73]

great stuff! btw the audio to the last example is a semitone flat of the written diagrams.

[@downhill240]

Not something I'll, be using often but still, interesting! Thanks for sharing!

[@docdeezer]

sir, these videos are awesome

[@sbadali1]

This is soooo great! Kudos

[@70desmareth]

Salam terimakasih from Indonesia..Horas from Samosir Island.

[@markr8326]

Thank you so much for the lesson! Where can we get the chord charts & tabs please?

[@fretjamguitar]

Thanks for your time! Lesson page linked in the description, cheers.

[@inf1n1typlus1]

The chord progression at 5:59 is actually the same chord progression as Last Night on Earth by Green Day and No 1 Party Anthem by Arctic Monkeys

[@GRJ-uz7kf]

"Walk (C) on, walk (Caug5) on, with (F) hope in your (Fm6) heart, and you'll (C) ne (Caug5) ver (C6) walk (C7) a (G) -lone, ..."

[@GoldenizedElite]

6:00 Hangar 18?

[@boogieboi8771]

I thought the same thing

[@SunAndMirror]

The long lost connection between Mozart and Marty

[@marklillquist7955]

you would be one trippy dude to jam with

[@bykers81]

Thank you for this video, it’s amazing how something I have always found confusing because of the terminology used, can be shown so simply. I have a few questions though, that I think has an obvious answer but...the Augmented chord is a major chord? When you replaced the Bm with it, it changed to a B7 which is a Dominant 7 right? (I know you said it’s an ‘altered’ dom7 so I get that bit) but you showed it from the 4th chord, the 5th and now changing the m3 to a Major....! Still confused.

[@JammyGit]

Good lesson mate 👍 I don't use augmented chords very often - I think Oh Darling by the Beatles is about the only one I know, with the 1st chord being E aug if I'm not mistaken...... But now I'm very confused. The D7 chord @ 06:11. I always play D7 as fret 2 on the high E & G strings and fret 1 on the B string.....but your D7 is on frets 2,3,5 on the high E, B, and G strings respectively. Why is that please? Is it a different D7? What sorcery is this?

[@fretjamguitar]

+Jammy Git It's just a different ordering of tones from 4th to 1st string. By placing the b7 on the 3rd string we can create a smoother voice leading effect as per the example. Love the name btw!

[@larryfarkas]

Thank you.

[@borgan1964]

Here is a lot of cords i dont know name of in my song writing,,,now i know👍

[@THESUNDANZEKID]

Very good. Thanks 🙏

[@GonzaloAgote]

Cool stuff

[@BH-cq5ub]

Thanks, very helpful

[@bagusbayekgilbert4787]

great lessons,...

[@vikiphiki]

Thanks broooooo!!!

[@marklillquist7955]

at 18:45 dude you've gotta do a "Dark Star" cover

[@JackSeol]

i am really appreciated

[@honkyhanky2647]

Solid!! Thanks!

[@NoTy-s2t]

Are there other symmetrical chords like that this???

[@TheEZEKIEL111]

Thank you thank you thank you thank sir

[@chazmichael7967]

The augmented is the only chord moved a major third to create it's own inversion?

[@erkylpipo]

Try a dim7 chord move a minor third, same thing!

[@ALLMIGHTSTUDIO]

Hi! coming soon I buy your course, this argoment are present in the books? are there a list of progressions similar to this one? and in general, are there a list of common and uncommon progressions? I'm curious! your video are amazing!

[@emretopcu804]

5:26 Space Oddity by David Bowie

[@MichaelAddlesee]

Wow, that's a lot of info packed into twenty minutes. Very useful, but I struggled to keep my concentration going.

[@karcarah]

Thank you

[@love4thetruth]

a good example is "Baby Hold On To Me" by Eddie Money

[@ani1kin]

Thank you!

[@francescop976]

Great video. Is the guitar a real recorded guitar or a synthesized MIDI guitar?

[@fretjamguitar]

+Francesco P It's real. There are a ton of tuning imperfections if you listen closely that I wouldn't be able to resist correcting if I was using midi!

[@johnnuch1622]

Error at 21:20 none of those chords are sharped, should just be Dm7b5 / G13 / C+M7 / Cadd6/9. The guitar fretting is also offset by 1 fret because of this

[@fretjamguitar]

Yep. Silly mistake. Don't even know how this happened! At least the shapes are movable so it's not too much of a big deal.

[@johnnuch1622]

@@fretjamguitar No worries, your videos are very useful and well-thought out, just wanted to make sure that others viewing and trying to follow along didn't get stumped or anything. Great content all around

[@taylorailshie4045]

wait, so Caug is also the same notes as Eaug and Aaug?

[@alisharajpoot9128]

Thanks

[@IvoryEatsTheWorld7]

Thank you so fucking much man!!! Grettings from Argentina!!!

[@fretjamguitar]

+Ivory Eats The World Greetings! Thanks for your time.

[@IvoryEatsTheWorld7]

No!, thanks to you for the time you take to make these videos, which surely must be a lot. Thanks for the information and the excellent way to teach you have, greetings and have an excellent year!

[@bullvinetheband7260]

Question how is moving the c augmented chord the same when it's moved to seventh position of the guitar which is E the same as C augmented?

[@D.NogueraMusic]

Short answer: inverting an augmented chord gives u another 2 augmented chords in root position due to their symmetry but also their enharmonic spellings.. Long (and nerdy) answer: Inverting C+ gives you this, C E G# (root position) E G# C (1st inv.) G# C E (2nd inv.) An E+ chord is spelled E G# B#, ( B# is just a enharmonic of C, thus E+ can be viewed as C+ in 1st inversion). Same aplies to G#+ (Ab+). In a nutshell, 3 augmented chords for the price of 1, thats why some theorist say there are only 4 augmented chords. Same for diminished as they're symmetrical.

[@GitarisMusiman]

Best teory

[@gabrielhamilton6684]

Nice man, I really like your vídeos. Can you talk about superimposing pentatonics? (And sorry for the bad english)

[@fretjamguitar]

Thanks! Could you describe what you mean by superimposing pentatonics? It could be interpreted a number of ways.

[@gabrielhamilton6684]

fretjam, this will be really hard... I am from Brasil (and greates from Brasil) superimposing is something about use more than the pentatonic of the key center (again, sorry for the bad english)

[@fretjamguitar]

+gabriel hamilton Ah cool. I was actually planning something along those lines.

[@gabrielhamilton6684]

fretjam I will wait for the vídeo, thank you. Parabéns pelo seu trabalho aqui!