How to Avoid sounding Amateur Everytime You Pick up a Guitar!

[@nathann1834]

First time watching one of your videos and it changed everything for me. See, I’ve always been a slow blues pentatonic noodler and never really wanted to play chords. I decided to watch this video and naturally I followed along with your chord progression. I began singing the chord names as I played them so I could memorize them and tears started rolling down my face as I did. I then started writing down lyrics to the progression about my wife who is no longer with me and my children. Because of this lesson, I want to thank you for opening a new door for me and a new way of feeling music. I subscribed. ❤

[@garyellis581]

Pffff years I've wasted trying to find someone help me understand scales properly, to teach somebody something so difficult in such an easy way is an art in itself, absolutely brilliant, thank you.

[@fall9283]

This is probably the most helpful guitar tutorial video I've watched yet!

[@462rob]

Being able to do this is such an important skill. Great lesson.

[@williamsteel4694]

An awesome lesson, every beginner should watch this and practice it over and over until it sinks in, thanks Eddie you are a great teacher

[@shunkadee1299]

I am so glad I found this channel. So clear and concise, it makes it all seem "do-able". Thank you! 😊

[@Wilbrankat1997]

Man that guitar sounds so good! Love the chord progression and fills!

[@killedbycoconuts]

This should be learned and mastered. Good job Eddie!

[@bryantcochran5065]

Yep, ill be watching this one several times. This is #2 today.

[@craigewinger7663]

I am blown away with this lesson. on the open scale pattern and its versatility to play lead and rhythm as you have shown. I know and play the 5 minor pentatonic patterns but never knew about an open position scale pattern. I can't wait to practice what you have taught in this video and I feel every guitarist should know this material. Great job Eddie. Craig Ewinger

[@MustafaBaabad]

Thank you very much for the lesson. It will be a much better exercise than just noodling around minor pentatonic. Cheers from.Indonesia.

[@guitarplayer66]

You made that look easy, wish I came across this a few years ago.Thanks!

[@luieortega9495]

Thank you! for finally explaining Rhythm and soloing into one lesson. I have always wondered how this works? Your a star; a crunchy little star!🌟 Thank you for the secret!🤘😁

[@mabblers]

What a great lesson. Very helpful. Thanks

[@alanmcclelland5245]

Excellent video, clear and concise. Cheers from Canada.

[@seanconnolly4503]

Thanks! Love that open scale. So useful and fun.

[@svgitana2499]

Great little lesson!! It makes you think outside of the box 👍🏻

[@bryantcochran5065]

Great lesson combining theory and how to use it while playing music. It makes theory fun and useful. Thanks Eddie

[@vusidumisanimiya994]

My favorite instrument thanks Eddie for the teachings

[@foolycooly3763]

Awesome video man. I think touching on chord progression theory would’ve really tied the video together man! briefly explaining the chord types (tonic, subdominant, dominant) which categories the 7 main chords fall into, and the order to put them in to make beautiful progressions. Tonic chord (1, 4 or 5) stable chord to set the tone, subdominant chord to create tension, then dominant, then resolve back to another tonic chord. Just a suggestion. Maybe that can be the next video though haha.

[@m.vonhollen6673]

Within each of the 5 CAGED shapes, be able to name every note by letter name and by its interval number. So say you’re in the key of E, and you’re in the C-shape of it, and you play the 6th fret of the D-string … that’s G#, the major 3rd.

[@science4charlie]

Man o man, I mean you're teaching science, and music!!!

[@bs8713]

Thank you for your mentorship!

[@eugenekeyser139]

Thank you Eddie...another super lesson....

[@Cameron-ue7lu]

Man, so much bang for your buck out of the open 3! Great lessons! Btw, you don't need that hat...we know you is a guitar playa!

[@scottbivins4051]

Great info I dig it. This is something normal people can grasp. Thank You and also RIP Eddie Money.

[@larryholbrooks4272]

Awesome lesson

[@creatorTWin]

Such clear instruction! Thank you

[@FuriousWeasel-09]

You have a great way of explaining things

[@CallousCoder]

Learning the chords in a scale on guitar is rather incomprehensible compared to piano - this is one of the few things piano is easier, than guitar, as you can see the triad CEG of your Cmaj and when you move it up one note to DFA (making it a Dm) move it up again EGB being Em shift up the note FAC being a FMaj. Again G B D Gmaj then we get the other minor ACE Am and that nasty diminished BDF Bdim.

[@johnnygreenway3579]

Great video. Thanks so much.

[@johnsherlock6825]

Very cool, thanks mate!!

[@klausklaus9112]

fantastic video !

[@juliodefreitas157]

Absolutely awesome ❤

[@rickknudson8105]

Thanks Eddy!

[@justin555666]

This is the lesson I should’ve gotten 20 years ago!

[@gregsmith2262]

Thank you very much 👍

[@chuckdithkeo2497]

You are very awesome!

[@rickyparr8001]

Nice,thank you

[@michaelblaney4461]

I was waiting for you to us the Diminished chord😅

[@mhoover]

It's SOL.

[@harryroger1739]

For acoustic guitar, avoid most of the fret board to play open chords can work because the open chords sound richer than bar chords but not on electric, Jazz or classical guitars. For those guitars, playing only at the top offers no benefit, only limitations.

[@OnwardAndEdward]

I don’t know about that. A lot of great music is played in the open position, even on electric guitar

[@TomFrizzell-1940]

@@OnwardAndEdward Also most new players are locked in on the open position so why learn the benefits there and once they learn that they can then proceed to apply up and down the fretboard.

[@gilgos9493]

Sol and Si 😘

[@MrSDFD18]

1-6-2-5-1 When building harmonious chord progressions, follow this road map. 1- can precede any note in the scale. 2- goes to 5 3- goes to 6 4- goes to 1, except for blues style music where 4 also goes to 5 5- goes to 1 6- goes to 2 7- goes to 1 Play the 1 chord. Now play any chord in the scale. From the second chord you play, follow the guide from above. So, for example, play the 1 chord. Now play the 3 chord. 3 goes to 6. 6 goes to 2. 2 goes to 5. 5 goes to 1. Play 1, 3, 6, 2, 5, 1.

[@shunkadee1299]

@@MrSDFD18So can you only play 7 after 1 and then have to return to 1 after playing 7?

[@Bubba-zu6yr]

@@shunkadee1299a diminished chord can pivot you many chords.

[@MrSDFD18]

@@shunkadee1299 yes. The 7 is a diminished chord. The leading tone of the 7 chord is only a half step below the root which creates such tension that it only resolves to the 1. Play the 7 chord (diminished) and then play any of the other chords in the scale and your ears will show you where it resolves. If you can make it work elsewhere, have at it. I hope that helps

[@shunkadee1299]

@Bubba-zu6yr . Thank you. Can you explain cos this answer seems to conflict with the other reply?

[@shunkadee1299]

@@MrSDFD18 Thank you 😊

[@stevemarshall3986]

I was initially confused by your diagram in top left corner. It's up side down and opposite of your actual guitar. I think it would be easier to understand if it was the same .

[@BriarBeats]

Thank you brother ❤️‍🔥 God Bless You In Jesus Name! 2:39

[@3129021jc]

I learned the c major scale in the first position, is this just a variation of that? Sorry for the question lol

[@OnwardAndEdward]

Yes it is! :)

[@johngibson4834]

❤ Love It 🎸 👈 🎥👀🤠🇨🇦

[@marco1950-s2b]

Sol si👍

[@abbeyglencircle]

👌 👏 wow

[@davidpenwell3432]

I heard Mr Jones in there

[@peterlaingoriginal]

The fretboard diagram and your video were opposite to one another. Was this intentional? I found it confusing to follow. As a right-handed player like yourself, it would have been easier to follow your video in mirror image. It would then line up with you fret board diagram as well

[@OnwardAndEdward]

@@peterlaingoriginal I follow the standard orientation of fretboard diagrams. It’s meant to resemble what you see when you look down at your own fretboard

[@peterlaingoriginal]

@OnwardAndEdward you misunderstand. The fretboard orientation is fine, but your orientation should be the opposite to align with the fretboard. So that when im looking at the screen, it should be like a mirror image of myself if that makes sense. Great video btw 👌

[@vorpalblades]

Dude, it's not that hard. Just follow thr diagram.

[@brianbrinegar]

Why are certain chords minors? How does it relate to the major scale?

[@RobertChristian-lk9iw]

It’s built in. The different distances between the notes in the major scale cause some chords to be major, some minor. 1 is major. 2 is minor. 3 is minor. 4 is major. 5 is major. 6 is minor. 7 is diminished Try playing a major chord on every step of the major scale and you should be able to hear that they don’t all sound like one key

[@culbertstarzman3867]

Is that basically the 2nd position, playing in the F major , 1st fret or is that the F is the major 5th of C ,

[@iiizootiii]

F is the major 4th of C

[@m.vonhollen6673]

You don’t say “major 5th”. You say “perfect 5th”, “perfect 4th”, “perfect unison”, and “perfect octave”. Only 2nds, 3rds, and 6ths are called “major”. - Perfect intervals made smaller are called “diminished”, larger are called “augmented”. Major intervals made smaller are called “minor”, larger are called “augmented”.

[@m.vonhollen6673]

@@iiizootiii It’s “perfect 4th”. Please read my other comment.

[@culbertstarzman3867]

I thank you both for responding, I did realize it's the 4th note of the major scale, of key of c, but I thought I recognized the pattern as pattern 2 of the caged or position 2 of the pentatonic shapes

[@sanooki]

At the end, you didn't explain if you're playing the scale shape corresponding to a chord before or after playing the chord.

[@OnwardAndEdward]

You can play pretty much anywhere in the open position scale pattern and it will work with those chords.

[@wilssantos2]

It's very strange when you say that "C, D, E, F" are "the actual names of the notes", because it's actually the other way around lol. Do, Re, Mi Fa, Sol, La, Si ARE the actual name of the notes, and C, D, E are a different notation method. If you go to Brazil or any other latin-language based country (including Italy, where much of the music conventions were established), people will understand the letter notation, but it will be VERY WEIRD to tell someone to play something in the key of C. People ALWAYS tell you to play in the key of Do, which is "the actual name of the note" :)

[@OnwardAndEdward]

Fair enough, but I’ve been playing professionally for 20 years and never in my life have I worked with people who didn’t understand what it means to play in the key of “C” lol

[@wilssantos2]

@@OnwardAndEdward haha yes, like I said, everyone understands it; but the letter notation is basically only used in written form. It's a notation, not a word. When people mention notes or keys, it's always by their names, not by the notations. Except in English, of course haha

[@user-dh5bnafe4b]

​​​@@wilssantos2 Do, re, mi, etc are not the names of specific notes, they're the names given to the POSITION of notes within a Diatonic scale regardless of key. The notes themselves are called A, B, C etc. with sharps and flats added to make up a 12 note Chromatic scale. I hope you can understand the difference. Nobody ever says "This tune is in the key of Do. "

[@wilssantos2]

@@user-dh5bnafe4b like I said, that's how people think in English; in latin-based languages, in which the music conventions were conceived, it's the other way around. So in spoken language we say "this song is in the key of Do bemol" or it's "Re sustenido". NO ONE says "it's C bemol" or "D sustenido". The letter notation is just that, a notation, for written forms.

[@umbertocolapicchioni2467]

⁠​⁠@@user-dh5bnafe4b everybody says that, when speaking in a romance language.

[@stomptheelites]

👍🏼👍🏼

[@davidbyers7246]

So why does the second chord, the D, have to be played as a minor? Why couldn’t you play it as a major? You see this is what I hate about theory, they NEVER explain things like this.

[@grantr5417]

You can play the D chord of course, but since one of the notes f# is not in the key of c, it will change the feel of being in the playing scale. This might require using another chord not in the c scale to further some tension, and using some chromatic notes not in the c scale to resolve the feeling back to the root note.

[@davidbyers7246]

@@grantr5417 So the chords one makes when playing in a key should be (or are better) only being made up of notes within the scale of the key the tune is in?

[@nealbeach4947]

Actually the best way to sound like an amateur is to play scales as fast as you can and call it a solo. 😂

[@michaellandreth1392]

i found this to be a great lesson. However I wonder why you didn't teach that the 1 , 4 , 5 of the Scale will pretty much be the Chords to al most every 3 Chord song in Western/Pop Music. And the 1 6- 4 5 or the 1 6- 2- 5 will be the 4 chords to most of the 4 chord songs ? And that will go for ALL the Major Keys..... Which is why I think the Nashville Number System in its basic form is the most important thing to learn in Music. Even the "Circle of 5ths" will eventually call the Chords by their Number. And the other Circles 3rd's and 4ths along with all the #'s and b's can also be found there as well.

[@GaryManning-m3n]

Music is mathematics

[@sophiafakevirus-ro8cc]

You meant to say: Music is the sound of maths

[@velocity80]

Very well put

[@foxtrot000]

My guitar teacher said the same lol

[@PianoMan-hx3ev]

💯

[@N.F.-Hertz]

Music is the sound of Science when it's happy 🤪