The John Petrucci Guitar Method-Episode 4:The Petrucci Sound - 3-String Extended Power Chords

In episode 4 of "The John Petrucci Guitar Method" John discusses three-string extended power chords - one of the key secrets behind his sound.

[@imbman3347]

i've learned more in this, than i did in my entire life

[@vincebos7915]

Nothing better than getting a guitar lesson from your favourite guitarist

[@DimitarMinchevFilm]

He's always smiling, because he knows we can't stretch that much

[@hyperboreandesolation]

If you can't, you're just not playin' guitar - this is so basic.

[@AR-mq5oz]

I wouldn't say a 6 fret stretch is that basic

[@hyperboreandesolation]

He's playin' on a very confortable music man that reduces the effort a lot.

[@MrRackenstein]

Yup fuck petrucci.

[@JiriPrajzner]

that's Dave Mustaine, John is just happy :)

[@JohnSpo]

Watching him explain his method of chord voicing restores my faith that he's not just trying to make it difficult to learn and play his songs. Every time I've tried to learn a Dream Theater song I feel like he may well be secretly evil but now I see that it's really just a kind of simple yet well thought out way of making chords and changes sound interesting and basing it mostly on remaining in or close to a particular position.

[@andydixon8016]

John "and then to take it one step further" Petrucci ;)

[@YousefTobail]

ONE MORE HALF STEP ARTHUR

[@vankazanjian3707]

He should give a lesson on how to write leads and riffs in odd meters.

[@drabbster]

you could at least figure that out yourself... I mean, if you wanna learn how to write HIS songs, just get Dream Theater tablature, cover them songs and be proud of yourself. If you really wanna learn how to write in odd meters use a metronome, set it to 7/8, jam along and if you don't find any riffs then maybe you're meant to be stuck with 4/4 writing... you peopz seriously don't seem to wanna use your own brain anymore...

[@vankazanjian3707]

of course i tried doing that and it didn't work. maybe there are some stuff that i don't know about it. and covering their songs may be harder than writing my own stuff lol.

[@vick2359]

Van Kazanjian check out some stuff from Berklee, they have really good odd meter curriculum

[@shaynemelvin1]

@@drabbster Randy Rhoads, Steve Vai, Alex Skolnick, and John Petrucci, who is seen here, are some of the best players in the world. Guess what? They ALL took lessons! Someone taught them. Sharing knowledge is a good thing. Get your head out of your a$$!

[@calebsurpass]

This video is filled with gold. Learned so much and it's been adding so much flavor to my playing. Don't sleep on these video series with all these Legendary guitarists, Many nuggets to be scored

[@iTheShirt]

I got frustrated with another KZbinrs tutorial and put my guitar down and then went back to this video and was laughing and picking my guitar up again like it was a Christmas present.

[@Tuneinthelight]

Such a humble master guitarist. So grateful to be able to listen to and learn from one of the best!

[@chriskinsella7201]

I like how high and happy they sound too ..

[@petewelsh9978]

The R59 chord I originally learned by playing Message in a Bottle and Waiting for 22 by Queensryche - it’s a great voicing.

[@johnnymoraes23]

I studied a lot of dream theater's repertoire through the years, and i can definitly see an evolution of chords exploration, from album to album, like Petrucci was evolving and looking for other ways to add colour to chords. That's really cool, cause he's still in a constant evolution and experimenting stuff with guitar harmonies and distortion.

[@williamreynolds3487]

I love those chords. I happened to stumble upon them while making random shapes and they’re definitely my favorites. I got so excited when he started playing them lol

[@MissAzul2]

An extraordinary guitar player ✌

[@charlieschueneman7363]

Awesome lesson!

[@candidman1437]

Love this player. I saw them live in the fifth row and me and John locked eyes for almost the entire show. Then he threw me a pic at the end of the show.

[@lindjohn5141]

👊 Give thanks for your gratitude and demo👏👏🔥

[@joshuarupert92]

Thanks you, I will work on that. 🙂 yellow guitars are more difficult to find or afford. I bought the rose gold music man on sale and painted it yellow...I listened to your dream theater albums all day yesterday. I finally got a day off work and worked on my guitar while listening to dream theater all night...third shift...I could probably help with lyrics for new songs. Lyrics that might help people to understand things and apply to life to keep there heads up right. My idea of songs... I appreciate you sharing your music..thank you

[@bahritkharakor9257]

JP..the great master!!

[@raybergstrom]

Great lesson

[@cartenmcliam]

The verse riff from 'The Looking Glass' has all of this stuff, probably my favorite rhythm part from any DT song.

[@ThiagoBragaMusic]

Amazing videos!! All!! Thank's Petrucci! (and the magazine)

[@NunesPensador]

That was some realy good stuff

[@joshallen4848]

@1:43 .. Those chords sound great and also give me flashbacks to the scene in Ex Machina when Ava and that other android kill their creator.

[@Jesse-mh6hv]

I described the add9 chord with distortion as a bright and happy sound with an aggressive more angrier bite to it and it’s awesome \m/ 😆

[@runnamukk]

6:50 is so awesome. Too. omg

[@owenthebrit]

Well I'd like to just take it one step further. !!!!!!.....so i'll wait for the next episode from the master... Pretty awesome !!!

[@chriskinsella7201]

I find they give you good ideas for solos too

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

good stuff.

[@Ranametalera]

MASTER! period!

[@johnpatitucci7919]

I missed my calling in life... I was supposed to be a prog metal guitarist. Now, in my 40s I'm realizing that should have stuck with guitar more than bass playing. Petrucci has been such an influence on me in the past couple years.

[@mysterybotts]

John Patitucci supposed/should have to to who? Get in there and do it man! You still got atleast 30-40 years, don’t feel bad about what you “should have done”. You can still kick ass, and at both!

[@MsDavo123]

I think if you give him 24 hours he would constantly be taking it" one step further"🤣 but a brilliant lesson again trying to breakthrough Boring power chord and come up with new functional chords i came up with major/minor power chords but how he implied major 7th chords was really brilliant!😎

[@gingerjam2192]

First there's no major 7th chord but a 7th chord here. Second check out great classical composers. There's a lot of inverted chords everywhere.

[@MsDavo123]

Ginger Jam hey buddy what do you mean by 7th chord?to the best of my knowldge there are 5 types of 7th chords major minor dominant,then half diminshed and diminished! Do we agree at least on this?

[@gingerjam2192]

Yes we agree. But the E7 have a dominant function and have a major 3rd and a MINOR 7th. The Emaj7 have a tonic (I chord) or a sub-dominant function (IV chord) and have a major 3rd and a MAJOR 7th.

[@MsDavo123]

Ginger Jam if you harmonize a major scale over 7th chords then you get the following 1st chord is major 2 minor 3minor 4major 5 dominant 6 half diminished So im not sure what you mean when you say major 7th is a 6th chord!

[@seanmcduffie6618]

@@MsDavo123 6 should be minor. 7 should be half-diminished. And in the video he uses a dominant7 chord first then the second example was also a dominant7 chord but with the root implied

[@RonsenAldosa]

Awesome

[@Pulse2AM]

Where do I buy bigger hands? Hahaha Just used your first chord voicing in a song I was working on, thanks! Spiced it up nicely.

[@BrandonofRedemption]

I actually incorporated these type of chords by actually learning DT songs. Great explanation.

[@MaxStone289]

Figure 31 is so catchy!

[@tyronebiggums3981]

Dr. V. OUT STANDING!!!!!!!!!

[@mdwayne741]

Sounds great.....I will try to stretch more. I don't have huge hands....would be nice. Great lesson by a master!

[@davidreid9632]

It look like he doesn't have huge hands either. He is using a basic chord shape that you will find in songs like Lay it Down by Ratt. I use to take my hands on the back of my guitar neck and push between each finger starting at the nut of the neck and move all the way down towards the guitar body. Do it between each finger. If it hurts, hold it there and do it every day until it doesn't. Then when it doesn't hurt, move up. It truly helped me when I first started playing.

[@kbuss10]

he has the crunch!

[@drewjohnson4794]

I thought I was the only person who knew extended root power chords to avoid down tuning. Great minds think alike.

[@WyattsMetalLife]

9 chords are always heavy ;)

[@jamescarroll1166]

That chord progression has got a nice Opeth-y vibe to it

[@ManWithoutThePants]

Opeth does use often minor chords with add 9. Like regular barred minor chord, but the lowest fifth is replace by 9th from two frets above. Like in Drapery falls which I have problems strecthing my fingers especially when they play it lower on fret board.

[@jefteoliver]

Hey, you plan to do something like that with michael romeo?

[@K_R_N.]

What he's explaining around 2-3 minuts in is much easier to do in drop tuning and is probably the easiest way to play minor or major chords there

[@Musulll]

The Police chords

[@mtg187]

Exactly i know the every breath you take song. Has the same streches

[@GeoffSaari]

This cured my cancer

[@mickey007r]

its like Petrucci was just practicing those stretchy exercises from rock discipline and just figured out what chords they where

[@Gallaer]

Never forget he can time warp!

[@pearljamsucks8688]

He seems like a legit decent bloke too.

[@JT_Grogan]

I love his tone here. Does anybody know what amp he's using?

[@giuliko]

If you wanna go one step further you could play F on low E string, D on A string and then G on D string. It's a little bit strech, but let me show you. John petrucci.

[@paulanthony8113]

More stretch?here's where that fancy 5,000 dollar guitar comes in handy!I'm making it happen with my 600$guitars.great lesson.

[@jakesli9154]

best rythym section would be john playing distorted through some tiny 30 watt amp while Barney Kessell comps on top with a 50 watt solid state clean

[@marketingenelparque]

Best video in the Guitar Method series, including the Satriani and Vai editions. Unfortunately, I don't have those fingers to do those stretches.

[@mysterybotts]

Claudio Lucero this is something worked up to. Nobody can just immediately stretch that far. Willing to bet that your fingers are a lot more capable than you give them credit for. The 9ths were impossible for me at first, now I can do the minor, just working on the major one now. You’ll get there if your consistent enough.

[@HunterHavokk]

9 Chords are my shit \m/ Awesome Video!

[@DGAVieira]

When I saw the shape of chords, I expected he would play a snippet from "Strange Deja Vu".

[@gr8guitarplayer]

"Then one thing to make this slightly more complicated..." There. He actually said it. If I had one complaint about his approach to music, it would have to be that he overly complicates things. Maybe he's not trying to do so, but when he actually STATES it...

[@mysterybotts]

gr8guitarplayer I mean it’s more of a means to an end if anything. It lays out in a more complex way on the fretboard than regular power chords, but if he’s searching for that tonality, that’s the only way to do it.

[@ArthurWM9]

1:38 to 1:42 - aren't the chords exactly the ones Satch used in the start of Revelation, from Professor Satchafunkilus?

[@ToneD5150]

Oh yes we can...!!!

[@chriskinsella7201]

I use those ha not a lot but I do

[@AMB666]

I just realized that he can stretch from nut all the way to the bridge😂

[@drabbster]

check out paul gilbert, he can do that on a baritone.

[@AMB666]

drabbster He is a really tall person lol

[@woodenhoe]

@@drabbster Buckethead, his student, can do that too lol

[@welern2liv815]

Examps...slick slang-0:42

Whats dark tonality? He speaks in the end of the vid?

[@LightWingStudios]

Jesus Christ! 6 and 7 fret spread to create chords? WOW!

[@mrjudgypants]

Can anyone pls tell me from which song is the music taken from when the video starts.

[@evandrojcm]

"Pull me under", from "Image and Words" album

[@roba1899]

Speaking of intervals .. how about TY TABOR, Man?

[@elfyjumbo7254]

Whenever i start to play guitar, is where i start to get hurt till my finger stop playing

[@asabovesobelow2299]

6:40 sound like a song written by Ihsahn

[@numetalinkin]

Oh God, please no more steps further.

[@joshuamichael4312]

🤣🤣🤣

[@YousefTobail]

continue on the next string

[@jamstudiostheshed1]

Its Resalusion like Jazz how far can you take it out their Individual ears Style Metale etc grade Vid Clean chords its Pop Rork Pop Indi

[@mihirsanjay7057]

how do I become so awesome

[@bulletso206]

Grow a beard and turn water into wine

[@filip100000]

So these are not necessarily power chords but ninth chords, right.......?

[@billpierce]

sus9 chords = root , 5th, 9th can also be called sus 2 buy some guys

[@brucekentallen]

Dolo ya he explains on the first video of this series about why he likes 9ths so much because sus chords aren't minor nor major, pretty fun stuff

[@filip100000]

I know man, I just tried to draw you attention to the fact that the title is a bit misleading ya know

[@mickm8028]

The police use these chords alot

[@MusicMotivator]

Hey Dolo, I'm going to take a minute here before I go into teaching my students to try and clarify this as I had issues with it way back and wanted to make sure I was understanding and conveying this whole 9th world correctly. From simplest to most complex: a root, 5,8, 2 is is called a sus2- sus chords have no 3rd. A root, b3rd, 5th, 9th is a min9th. A root,maj 3rd, 5th and 9th is an add9 and a root,3rd,5th and b9 is the 9th chord. ( you know those numbers are scale degrees right that when stacked become chord tones..) What is more important than just knowing the spelling of these chords is the family they belong too ie. a 9th chord is a dominant type chord and also how they function in a progression. Hope this helps. Oh and to answer your question directly, yes, a power chord is exclusively a root and a fifth.

[@MarcoEV0]

7:00 to me it sounds like JP

[@WishfulSinful1969]

Please be patient with us mortals.

[@yorichixX]

Wtf petrucci 3:20, how the hell he's so good with chords omfg

[@user-dk7zn4kj5r]

Hi you

[@valensinclair6750]

"to make this a little more complicated" O_o

[@nikiw1856]

Distortion and huge chord?

[@toneseeker87]

7th chords, an inversion.

[@ronedelbrock8570]

Mr. Petrucci, do I spy a Jubilee back there?

[@daleweber2579]

He'll be cooler if he did this in a 12th fret 3-string extended finger stretch in a Ninja pose like what Mick Thomson did in a photo.

[@JoeCavanaugh]

Fate's who?

[@mysterybotts]

Joe.Cavanaugh fates warning I’m guessing. Early prog metal band, they’re like a proggy Iron Maiden

[@rijosigns]

dizzy now

[@Rockinwithloz]

is he in standard tuning?

[@niteinnoarmor]

How to stretch with small hands :( and playing with a strap makes it a nightmare too. I guess John Petrucci culls of guitar players with these stretches

[@ChrisBrandsma]

Cow Monger when I was taking classical lessons I had to do stretching exercises daily. Take two fingers from your picking hand and push/roll them between each finger on your other hand.

[@Henrix1998]

1-5-10 is just cursed. No normal guitarist will be able to do that

[@vikasbiliye5023]

All of a sudden...

[@wrcz]

it would be nice to see the chords on screen rather than having to decipher it from his finger positions...

[@thadiousbrown]

UMMM......WHAT?

[@6u174r808]

noyce

[@jakesli9154]

In this video he shows you how the deftones got the deftones sound lol. root 5 9

[@cristiancontrario]

I'm the 666th like \m/

[@icelinx]

Spreading his fingers over 7 frets .... ok ... see you later ...

[@ErosSirianni]

five people can't stretch their little finger

[@inarifoxking]

That guy behind the camera is annoying lol

[@orangegobblin5683]

over rated,,

[@yabo2424]

Your wasted , put the pipe down !

[@clarkgarber5495]

Why aren't YOU on the G3 tour?