Chords in Keys (easy cheat)

[@steveavant9727]

Great job on the lead parts. For you, it was just noodling around but for someone who isn’t nearly at that level, it was incredible.

[@nintendianajones64]

As someone that's been playing piano my whole life I appreciate this justinpiano lesson.

[@mang0s284]

Once again Justin you prove to be fantastic at what you do, even when I have those weeks or months where I admittedly don’t play as much as I should I still watch and sure enough you inspire me to play again. You’re teaching methods have always been my favourite and so comprehensive my dog could understand!🤣

[@robinbebbington7063]

Seeing it demonstrated on piano helped to see the Scale to Chord in a key. Certainly something to practice a bit more now.

[@stevedaniel8210]

Thanks for all you do.....just bought your phone app....worth every penny and more. I retired four months ago, and you are making my retirement even better! Thanks again sir. Steve in Lexington Kentucky.

[@rhombusmeniscus9164]

This can easily be summed up in three words. Priceless. Priceless. Priceless.

[@adampashley3547]

That appears to be one word repeated 3 times

[@christopherwilliams6148]

That's one word wrote 3 times 😂

[@heyitswesty]

I've been trying to play guitar on and off for 35 years. I learned more in this 17 minute youtube video than I ever did on my own. Thank you Justin.

[@jonwills9160]

A good teacher is essential!! This guy IS the bomb!!

[@johnmacmillan627]

Thx Justin, another excellent tutorial!

[@U2pSandman]

Wow, This tutorial made a lot of sense to me ! I never understood the logic why there are minor and major chords in a given key. When you laid the chords and scale out on the keyboard it all came together for me. Thanks for this !

[@blacksilverchair3315]

This is the best lesson I have learnt on guitar. I know my chords but never understood how to solo or play along. This lesson blew my mind. Thanks for this. Now I'm going to finally have some direction in my guitar playing. Bless up bro. 🤘🏾🤘🏾

[@justinguitar]

Thanks Blackie!

[@fatlenny9361]

@@justinguitar ?????

[@donh8563]

Bass player here but I watch all your videos. Helps to know what guitarist is playing and in turn I know what works on bass. (Plus I like to noodle around on the guitar secretly lol.) Thanks.

[@flouisbailey]

I am primarily a guitar player but have two basses an acoustic and an electric, each has helped the other. Fingers get stronger on bass and finger stretch improves as well. I’m no Justin but each improves the other.

[@justinguitar]

Cool feedback, thanks!

[@jack002tuber]

A good cheat sheet for this is the circle of fifths with the relative minors added. Look at G, you have C on the left, D on the right, and the rel minor of G is EM, and his neighbors are Am and and Bm. A block of six chords all there on the circle together

[@justinguitar]

You are right of course, but many struggle to keep the Co5 in mind when they're starring - this is a super simple cheat :)

[@jack002tuber]

@@justinguitar Co5 would make an EXCELLENT TAT!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@tonalyapp]

Yeah, the circle of fifths is great for keys. If one has trouble remembering it - check out Tonaly. It makes it easy to use and remember in any key ✌

[@LOFIGSD]

@@jack002tuber Zombie Guitar fella done just that I think

[@pame.1211]

@@justinguitar 😊❤️

[@StarTrekBro]

You rock Justin! I have been playing guitar on and off for 8 years now, and your channel has always been the go to! Thank you for guiding so many of us to become better musicians!

[@JuneEBug-gy6nt]

The Norm Macdonald of guitar, both of appearance and mastery of their craft! Thank you Justin! You and Marty have made things happen for me I’d never imagined possible

[@tz7813]

Even more amazing when you consider that Justin is from West Texas. Very few people from West Texas will pull their guitar out, and rub it on a fella.

[@markweaver8529]

@@tz7813 I thought he was australian

[@mrdude3523]

@@tz7813 He’s actually from Tasmania, Australia.

[@tz7813]

@@mrdude3523 It was a reference to a Norm Macdonald joke.

[@mrdude3523]

@@tz7813 Ah oops

[@jarhead3038]

I've been playing guitar since 1962. You're the best instructor out there.

[@justinguitar]

Thanks. I appreciate that.

[@davehall8584]

@@justinguitar you are absolutely THE BEST ever teacher...by a long chalk.

[@RiseWitPurpose]

Pro teacher always make easy n interesting

[@لالهوةإلالهوتي]

Finally I understand why chord progression has a formula! Thank you

[@imarr17]

WOW, I just didn't realise playing guitar was so easy, in fact Justin makes it look so easy I just fell off my seat. Seriously though, absolutely fantastic and for once I see how simple improvising works over a set of chords. Thanks Justin

[@alv1174]

Dude, this is so clever. Playing scales along the neck is starting to make a little. Please do more of this and in a related video do a bit of theory so that we can lock in the learnings.

[@ianrandall4370]

Makes a lot more sense now. Thanks

[@justinguitar]

Great! Thanks.

[@TheSingingDoctor325]

Great video : ) This really cuts to the chase to get you comfortable with notes, chords and soloing in a key.

[@stewartmackey6195]

What a fantastic way of looking at playing . I can take this and start applying immediately . Tks. so much .

[@B_C1]

Thanks so much. Clears a lot up for me.

[@studioedin5288]

wow my mind is blown! lightbulbs lightbulbs! thank you Justin!

[@bobkal9424]

I have been watching your videos for some time. I enjoy your teaching method. This episode was an eye opener!!!! Thanks!

[@justinguitar]

Thanks for the thanks 😊

[@johnparkinson1928]

WOW! Justin, an amazing revelation and I always thought it was just magic (lol) This info will provide so much additional pleasure to my guitar playing and so essential to now be able to play with others. As you said at the beginning: "I wish I had known this when I started playing"..........for me. ..40 years ago......THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[@robnilapple]

Thanks

[@justinguitar]

Many thanks Rob :)

[@robnilapple]

Hi Justin, thanks to you its been two years I've been playing the acoustic guitar. 61 young here 😀 Cheers Rob 🎸

[@pauldrew4338]

Light bulb moment! So well explained Justin, and demonstrating it on the keyboard (for me anyway) really helped. And then the demos of soloing against backing tracks of chords really underlined the whole thing. Great lesson, thanks

[@jpr4212]

Definitely one of the most useful and informative lessons in your repertoire Justin. Many thanks.

[@JGmedia18]

Gonna work on this Justin as could be the most useful thing I’ve learned on guitar in the last 50 years !

[@Mark-Rakowski]

Wow. This may be the single most useful lesson ever!!

[@justinguitar]

Cheers Mark!

[@rsdandy]

Great info Justin. Thanks !!!!

[@carlotomass119]

Justin what shapes are you using on the the first 4 strings when you solo …… Great lesson btw thanks

[@Jb-uy5zx]

The piano demonstration makes it easier to understand, good idea. And for that I thank you sir.

[@richgray5762]

Especially the 7 with b3b5

[@justinguitar]

Glad it was helpful! :)

[@concernedcitizen4181]

Great and informative! I'm going to play with this tonight

[@danwhite1983]

Excellent lesson, best I’ve seen on improvising over a chord progression, I need to do this then actually finish the justin major scale course!

[@joecool5670]

Heyyy Justin, nice to see you

[@yudipitre5720]

Another awesome lesson. Thank you learning so much from you.

[@terencebearpark4875]

As always Justin the information you give is awesome.

[@justinguitar]

Glad you think so! :) Thank you!

[@justinguitar]

*Join The Theory Course:* www.justinguitar.com/classes/practical-fast-fun-music-theory * Let me have your questions below and I'll see if I can make a follow-up to extend the idea and answer your questions!! *

[@randolphgallagher7942]

I love double stops. Have you covered that before?

[@robinsonmitchell9995]

Justin, I played trumpet in school from 5th to 12th grades, so I could read music and also understood things like key signatures. I also played and listened to some classical music. When I picked up the guitar I learned chords in keys by playing the chord progression from Pachelbel's Canon in D: I, V, vi, iii, IV, I, IV, V. I practiced this chord progression until I could play it in the keys of C, D, E, G, and A before I found out about CAGED. I figured out early on that with those chords I could play most songs, and transpose them into any of those keys.. Later when I learned the lesson you're teaching here, all I had to add was the ii chord in each key. Nonetheless this lesson is more orderly and structured than the ad hoc way I learned about chord families in keys.

[@davehall8584]

fantastic video Justin

[@keepy85]

Amazing stuff!

[@benjaminchacko3582]

Awesome! thanks Justin!

[@Stargazer-px7fw]

Great lesson, thanks Justin!

[@garihenderson456]

Excellent lesson and perfectly explained. Nice one Justin.

[@AngadBagga]

I did do the math in my head but seeing it work is another kind of magical

[@adaltroczguitar]

Thanks so much for these!! 💪💪🎸🎸👏👏👏

[@justinguitar]

Glad you like them!

[@chrisjohnson9949]

This is a great tip. Thanks so much!

[@jennyomalley7634]

12 Years I've kept coming back to this guy, feel like I know him now. 🙃

[@giovanniraffaeli3109]

Thank you very much for this session!

[@Billy-yi3ml]

I think your grate!!! Relly like your thoughts and help.

[@tonythecroc]

OMG this is gold Thank you

[@lukaslmguitarcorner]

What would be the cheat pattern for minor keys? Maybe worth a follow up

[@AlexanderLarsson]

Its the same pattern, but the “name” of the key is the last note in the pattern. Ie in the g major example starting on G, it’s also E minor.

[@garihenderson456]

For minor keys, the pattern is 1.minor- 2.diminished- 3.major- 4.minor- 5.minor- 6.major- 7.major. Like Alex said above, it’s the same pattern from a different starting point. For an even simpler way of thinking about it, the 1, 4 and 5 are all the same - so if you’re in any major key, the 1, 4 and 5 are all major. Same goes for minor key, the 1, 4 and 5 will all be minor. The diminished chord is a pain in the arse in both major and minor, it’s the 2 in minor and the 7 in major. Most songwriters in pop and rock ignore these chords because they sound pretty weird. They’re cool once you’ve got ‘em figured out though!

[@gunsofsteele]

Just wait till I get to church on Sunday morning & jam on the piano instead of my guitar. I've never played piano before. 😎 Thanks Justin!

[@domenicosorrentino1972]

hi justin thx for the lesson...but i'd like to know the solo is based on pentatonic, the scale or three note per string pattern?

[@erz6306]

great lesson thanks

[@cometarm6757]

Muchas gracias 👍🏻

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

That was brilliant! Why have I never been shown this by my teach? I have a lesson scheduled in a few days. I am going into this more deeply.

[@vw9659]

I stumbled on that fretboard pattern for the keys at the start of the video when trying to learn the Circle of Fifths. A lot of people are told that they need to learn the Circle of Fifths to work out the chords in a key. With that fretboard pattern, you don't need it. And if so, there's not much point learning the Circle of Fifths until you get to a much more advanced stage. Another simple way to remember which chords are major and which are minor in the pattern - the M-m-m-M-M-m sequence - is to simply remember the very common 1-4-5 major chord sequence of barre chords on the fretboard. The position of those 3 chords shows the major chords in a key, and so the remaining position chords in the fretboard pattern must be the minor chords.

[@frederikanrys546]

I do understand the chord progression, but how do you pick the correct notes for soloing? Did I miss it in the video?

[@justinguitar]

Major scale starting from the first note!

[@MrAmbresh]

Thanks for making this tutorial.. awesome Justin.. look forward to more videos on basic.. Request for more tutorials on strumming patterns..

[@justinguitar]

What struggles you having with strumming?

[@belok177]

It would be nice if you explained the finger placement for the chords which are new in the course. Maybe I'm just dumb but I was trying to see how you place your fingers on the 5th string chords for 3 days in a row and was only able to get that after I googled all these chords

[@rotrooney]

Justin Guitar GOAT more like.

[@andybrown2478]

Nice how Justin made the major chord scale that I know on paper, move easily to the fretboard. I still don't understand how that translated to the single notes he was playing though.

[@drewdietz2115]

most excellent lesson!!!!!

[@officialWWM]

Mind Blown!

[@DEveryday-fz5dv]

I got this Roland, too!

[@ianrandall482]

Music theory is easiest on the piano. Thats why I taught my daughter to play piano before guitar. Now she can play most Instruments. Being a guitarist myself, I taught her how to play rhythm, as the guitar is not a polythionic instrument like the piano. Never underestimate basic music theory. She can now rip out licks with the best of them. Nothing better than when your student becomes a master that outshines you.

[@jennyomalley7634]

With the piano , right hand thumb on any note black or white and the number 43 for Major 34 for minor and you have the triad , simple on piano. You just have to remember the number 43 reverse it for minor.

[@gbrt9569]

Great video, thanks Justin

[@justinguitar]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@LOFIGSD]

Justin is a great teacher, and always fresh with old concepts which keep need repeating, without getting boring, most of playing Guitar in a Band is chords and licks, but everyone wants to do solos, honestly, there are not many people who are good Rythm Electric players, chords are central to the sound and songwriting, this is what people should practice most on, tbh when you know the chords and notes on the Guitar, soloing becomes easy.

[@viperocco]

Awesome video, thanks!

[@garylcampbell9964]

If i could play like you wow.

[@girmonsproductions]

I love F# (minor) my fav key (chord), anyway this was a fantastic lesson! Cheers

[@amarx6248]

Hoping this will all make sense one day

[@okaforsochi6726]

Justin are you covering the whole first fret or playing only one note there?

[@speechy6260]

shhhhiiiittt ! 😳...i should ve learned to play the piano....🤓 ....besides,...sooo entertaining , your videos 👍👍👍

[@60gidget]

Thank you Justin........this is such a great help, all the years of playing and never could understand and you come along and bang, done. Thanks mate. i would love to know why this method is considered as cheating or easy cheat?

[@tomlong4613]

As always fantastic lesson,just wondering what you would do if the key was minor??

[@justinguitar]

If you are talking relative major and minor, such as C major and A minor, then both share the same chords. C Major C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii See that Am is the 6th chord. To know the order of chords in the key of A minor, take the list and restart it from the Am chord. A Minor Am, Bdim, C, Dm, Em, F, G i, ii, III, iv, v, VI, VII Note that I like to use upper and lower case. Justin tends not to do this in his lesson notes. One extra useful tip - minor keys often use a major or a dominant chord as their 'five chord'. In the key of A minor, you will often find E or E7 rather than the diatonic Em chord. It is worth learning from Justin's practical music theory course to understand this better.    Check it out here. The first two modules are free to access. www.justinguitar.com/store/practical-music-theory Cheers 😊 | Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & Approved Teacher

[@tomlong4613]

@@justinguitar thankyou so much for replying and thank you for all the great lessons 😊

[@matthewdcarver]

nicely done. I like you don't have to. Its how you start right? Have fun then build on it.

[@henriquecorreia9917]

uau fantástica dica

[@bethodowd5053]

What notes are you playing over the loop? Just a scale? You didn’t explain that aspect. And how to play the chords on the lower part of the neck?

[@sudiptasingh]

Perfect. Now connect those chords to common caged patterns on those 6 notes… and you are off to the races. Don’t even need to move your hand :-)

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

Came for the guitar, feel like pulling out the keyboards now!

[@daliborzak2485]

If only our musical class teachers showed us something like this 25 years ago... and not forcing us memorizing boring stuff we were not interested in back then

[@kaatnikaatni9012]

Hi, this is great for Major key. But what about if the song was in a minor key, say Cm?

[@justinguitar]

Check this lesson: www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/minor-keys-mt-426 | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Guide, Approved Teacher & Community Moderator

[@kaatnikaatni9012]

@@justinguitar thanks man. Purchased your course. Great work!

[@berendharmsen]

major minor minor - major major minor I knew, but now I KNOW. So weird how helpful memorising this thing in threes is...

[@paolomedri6791]

1:20 that is kinda confusing, what you are playing is "Sol La Si Do Re Mi" not "Do Re Mi Fa Sol La"

[@rushdown24]

How much are the courses on your website mate?

[@justinguitar]

Most of them are free! justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons

[@rushdown24]

@@justinguitar thank you for the reply buddy. Thats awesome 👌

[@wbh971]

This guy could make astrophysics simple.... The essence of a master teacher

[@TRUEHONESTWillSmith]

I'm even more confused, How do you know what the shapes are when doing the Major or Minor pattern? They seem to be different and have nothing to do with it being a major or minor.

[@justinguitar]

The pattern of notes is simply 3-in-a-line on the E then the A strings with each note being spaced 2 frets apart. The chords based on the E string notes are 6-string E-shape barre chords (major and minor). The chords based on the A string notes are 5-string A-shape barre chords (major and minor). Justin sometimes plays A_shape major as 4-string chords, muting the high E string. Does that help? Cheers 😊 | Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & Approved Teacher

[@joecool5670]

Beside the fact that this is very easy to understand: It sound so unbelievable good how you do it, looks easier than It is if you had Fingers of lead like me.🤣

[@mrtambourineman6107]

Love smoking a fat one and listening to Justin talk guitar! So soothing I listen to fall asleep too. Like Asmr it gives me tingles and relaxes me

[@jasper_north]

Cool

[@justinguitar]

Thanks!

[@jeffskyberg5615]

Are you playing this 3 note per string on every string? I thought you said only the E and A string?

[@justinguitar]

Only using E & A for the pattern to find the chords... the scales can be all over!

[@jeffskyberg5615]

@@justinguitar Thanks

[@emresimsek7394]

13:00 holy shit

[@jennycraigadventures3314]

You said you’re not a piano player. What if your parents had named you “Justin Piano” instead? That chord progression sounded like “Take On Me”.

[@justinguitar]

Would I be able to keep my hat? :)

[@jennycraigadventures3314]

@@justinguitar You can keep it, but you’ll have to ask Tom Jones if you can leave your hat on.

[@randolphgallagher7942]

@@justinguitar You can leave your hat on. You can leave your hat on. :)

[@fatbloke6223]

Great video Justin, I have a question for you....why is there no semitone between B&C and E&F...this has been keeping me awake at night for years...please help , i need some sleep

[@cometarm6757]

3 fred 1 string it is C ??? Not G pls explain to me cos i am new in the guitar wold n i follow your free curs n the note u teach is G,A D. 3,5,7 in the 1 string But in this leson Is C D E Why ?Sorry for mi inglish , great videos thxs

[@justinguitar]

The thickest string is called the low E or the 6th string. The notes from open then fret 1 then fret 3 then fret 5 then fret 7 are E, F, G, A, B. The next thickest string is called the A or the 5th string. The notes from open then fret 2 then fret 3 then fret 5 then fret 7 are A, B, C, D, E. In this video Justin shows six notes. 6th string frets 3, 5 & 7 = G, A & B 5th string frets 3, 5 & 7 = C, D & E. Cheers 😊 | Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & Approved Teacher www.justinguitar.com