Learn to HEAR chord changes to RADICALLY improve your guitar playing!

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This video is a step-by-step guide on how I trained my ear -- musical ear -- to hear chord changes of any song. These simple exercises will improve your guitar playing and general musical skill ten fold. It's essential to be able to hear chord changes when we solo so we don't get lost in the song form. We can also use that information to change how we play our solos, improve our note choices, phrasing, and more. Become a better guitar player and musician today with these basic exercises.

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[@larryjones6061]

Your a Great guitar teacher!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Much appreciate thanks for commenting!

[@DSilverwood]

Thanks Blue. I really appreciate how videos like this provide building blocks to improve my playing

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Glad to hear it! Thank you for watching and commenting!

[@mattfeakes8711]

I’m new to your channel, I’m loving all the lessons I’ve watched so far, really helpful and concise information, thanks Blue 😁

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Cool thank you! Lots of lessons on the channel and our Patreon www.patreon.com/guitarlessonsvancouver

[@dawin6710]

It's night time here and I'm kind a tired. I will be doing just this tomorrow after breakfast. but I'll probably be doing tonight while dreaming too....😌 Thanks for another epic video

[@jeffro.]

Thanks, Blue. Great idearrrs. I've been fortunate, i can always hear the chord changes. And i don't need to "play licks," cuz i always have a catchy melody running in my head. I do practice playing lick, however, because it trains my fingers to do whatever manipulations i might need to play those catchy melodies! Good stuff, tho, as always! 👍 👌

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Nice! That's such a great skill to have to be able to hear the changes. Thanks for watching!

[@QBRX]

Great, love it!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you QBRX!!!

[@Dave-gf3kd]

EXACTLY…what I need to do! I’ve known it vaguely, but you have made it crystal clear…thanks so much!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Glad it was helpful!

[@RBZ3]

Thanks Blue!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you RB!!!

[@jamesadams1064]

Simple in theory but a great way to present it. Thanks again Blue.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you!!

[@punchrunliftoutdoortrainin2871]

Great lesson

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you!!

[@jonjenkins5253]

The IV to I change in America’s 70’s classic “Ventura Highway” is so beautiful. G6 to DMaj7, simple chord extensions that are so harmonically rich as a pair. But wait, in your world the Major Scale doesn’t exist!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Ventura highway is a great song for sure :)

[@jeffro.]

Say, what? "In your world...no Major scale?" Hmmm. Don't get it.

[@jonjenkins5253]

@@jeffro.For whatever reason this particular guitar teacher considers learning the Major Scale to be a complete waste of time! How then does he expect a guitar student to fully develop his/her knowledge of intervals, and more to the point hear them! He gives his reasoning for not doing so on a recent upload to his channel. He’s free to teach whatever he wants on KZbin, but simply casting aside the Major Scale is ridiculous in my opinion.

[@jrb123able]

@jonjenkins 5253 He mentioned the Major Scale in This video…

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

@@jonjenkins5253 I never said I don't teach the Major Scale at all. I just don't teach it until students are very good at all the pentatonic shapes. And even then, they still might not really need the Major Scale depending on the music they want to play and how far they want to go with guitar. My aim is always to get the student to reach their goal of playing the music THEY want to play as soon as possible. And in the 15 years I've been teaching, that music is almost exclusively pentatonic. So I focus on what the students want to learn. That's just my way of doing it. Respectfully, different teachers have different approaches.

[@MustangJohnny85]

Great lesson Great White North !!!!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you!

[@trusarmor4957]

8:14 maybe a lesson on this 'Jedi' of a technique/drill, plz !

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Haha yeah it's a great exercise. I did that one soooo many times years ago. 🤣

[@dawin6710]

So if I have "I-IV-V-I" progression of a major scale I'd be playing three different major scales (as per chord) if wished so, however for the" I" chord I can play either minor or major scales (prefereably switch minor/major when the "I" chord returns). am I right? Thanks

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

That works yes, though keep in mind if you use the minor pentatonic it gives you the blues and blues-rock sound. Which is cool, but it might not work for just any song/genre :)

[@AnitaAgency]

Your KZbin video is Great and the videos content is Amazing 🎉👏Your video has some problems.

[@Uncle_Gray]

Some songs shange the key though Those are especially tricky for me Once I was jamming 1st time on Darkest of my days by Big Wolf Band Didn't know chords just found out it's in Am So in the middle was a shift from Am to Cm n I was like whoa whoa wait a sec What's going on 😂

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Key changes are challenging but you could adapt this same exercise to practice the key change :)

[@user-wn6ex9xd7p]

Hi mate...I just found your site and subscribed as I like the way you explain things, but your distorted tone in this video isn't very nice to listen too....Sounds like you have a speaker problem...

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thank you. No speaker problems. In fact no speaker. It's the UA Dream 65.