How To Voice Chords For Ambient Guitar (The 3 Regions Rule) - Chordal Lesson Ep.1

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Here is my own take on how to voice your chords for ambient guitar looping and get a crystal clear sound with your chords and loops.
I explain to you my 3 regions rule of the fretboard that I have applied on guitar after studying keyboards & the science of harmonics.
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Through original ambient music, chordal guitar lessons and tips on guitar pedals, Antoine is looking to educate and inspire aspiring ambient musicians to learn everything about the world of ambient guitar and chordal voicings on guitar.

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

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[@billa6348]

Your demonstrating this concept on a keyboard made the learning objective much more accessible. Thank you for thinking outside the proverbial "box."

[@psylopanda2841]

You are an awesome musician but an even more awesome teacher... Thanks a lot!

[@kilgoretrout321]

Less harmoenix to devil up. I love this guy

[@rickthomas393]

A new way to think about this. That’s what I hope to get from a teacher! Thanks.

[@briancollins8498]

Thank you for sharing this information Antoine. I have been experimenting with ambient chord voices and you have given me much to consider with these tips! Your instructional method is very good!

[@henryasokan539]

you explain this really well, im learning so much!

[@Alchemist3333]

Another great lesson. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@Ingenieur_Robotique]

I'm loving your videos. This is great. Nice one.

[@georgerichardson7728]

A wonderful lesson, thank you, makes a great difference to chordal construction in an ambient way

[@stevencavin]

Excellent video! Great information, thank you😊👌

[@earfulaudio5199]

Beautiful ... Thank you for posting.

[@d3w4yn3]

A to Z? Wait, wait, you mean A to G? (joking).... your videos are always so fun to watch! Great content!!! Always!!!

[@michaelmattson3515]

You sounded like dad on the piano. He was Jazz/Blues/Boogie Woogie pianist. I was twelve years old when he taught me the Heart & Soul Jazz 7th version. A friend of mine do chord extensions on our guitars. It makes the band sound so full. The Bass & Keyboard player get their space.

[@saglave]

Love the video. Pretty informative. Thank you!!!

[@kylew706]

You’re amazing thank you for your work

[@2JWilliam]

That was very informative thank you

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Beautiful 🤩

[@treyvisqueux7973]

Wow, this is very helpful -- thanks!

[@southjersey10]

Très bon. Merci.

[@MrMongo321]

very informative Antoine, ty!

[@RED_indiemusic]

Excellent video Antoine! Very informative, keep them coming! Cheers!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

R.E.D. It's a rendez-vous every wednesday :D

[@nhatzblezzyblues706]

It's A good teaching sir..most important ambient voices using worship songs...Godbless Sir!!!

[@chrisssbrooks]

Great lesson!

[@0far0from0sanity]

This is very helpful. I took music classes in college but it all seemed like work and rules. No fun. You make it fun and I also learned a lot. Thank you

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Great to read that, thank you!

[@0far0from0sanity]

You’re welcome. Keep up the good work and the videos. I enjoy watching you and learning. You make me want to create something awesome. 👍

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thank you for your amazing lessons they help me alot love you from iran 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@johnleventon9575]

This is an absolutely fascinating lesson. You teach concepts in this video and in the KORDZ program that I have never learned in a lifetime of other guitar lessons.

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

That's my goal. I don't want to be just ''another guitar teacher''. I wanna share MY different approach! When you learn from 1 teacher, you kinda copy him. But when you learned from 15 teachers (like I did), you gather all of that information into your own original approach. And I truly realized that I had something special to offer when making my KORDZ Program. I think I have found my personnal strenght and I will exploit it. It's just the beginning :) Thanks for being with me!

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[@ikozbari]

fantastic video, never considered the harmonix.

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[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Thank you :-)

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Thank you very very very much. now i know how to use this info on dadgad.

[@rtplayer3543]

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[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Thanks and welcome

[@Hutch82UK]

Merci Antoine I was in the chord voicings forest and I see trees much clearer now. I know what I mean lol. You have a new subscriber of your wonderful channel.

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Thanks a lot man!

[@elycyr354]

Merci mon gars tu ma bin aider !

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Ça fait plaisir!

[@forester057]

Devil Up! Like cowboy up except with more horns and tails. Love your channel, language barriers and all. 😂

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

You should watch my lesson 2 after this one. I make a pretty big joke about that ''devil up!''. Thanks man :)

[@musiceclipse]

Very nice. You could show the natural harmonics on the guitar as well, taking the low string, and touching the nodes at 12, 7,5 and 3, dividing the string length in 1/2,1/3,1/4,1/5, etc. A brass player can also get this series of notes with one fingering by tightening the embouchure.

[@phival2003]

Je decouvre ta chaine! Bravo! Et bravo pour ton accent qui a aujourd'hui est bluffant

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Haha, merci :-)

[@davemau5e]

Love your stuff buddy! Been a fan of your ambient work! Especially that you got me addicted to the Strymon stuff! Haha!👏🏼😅

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Their pedals are pretty addictive, aren't they? Thanks mate!

[@agerven]

Cool, that was an eye opener for me! Used to think a chord is a chord, and just stuck to a single region while blending the chord progressions there.

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Welcome to the world of chordal playing! This will be a long and wonderful journey for you. Harmonizations, extensions, inversions, stacking, choosing voicings over others... there are infinite possibilities for each progression and even for each chord all over the fretboard!! Playing and experimenting with all of that is truly what I'm passionate about on guitar!

[@gregkirkelie1844]

Nice lesson Antoine. Have you heard Jeff Pearce? I think he is one of the best ambient players out there.

[@angkit216]

Bro please show me the complete chords so i can use in my church. Just know basic in guitar but want to use my strato in church someday love your teaching

[@gaetanbenard6380]

Antoine, tu déchires tout ! J'ai vraiment appris des trucs très intéressants sur cette vidéo !! Pense à tes amis francophone ! 🤣🤣 Aurais tu les tabs des accords que tu utilises dans la 3 régions du manche ? Très intéressant merci

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Non, je n'ai pas de tabs. Il faut les apprendre avec les diagrammes directement sur la vidéo. Merci! :-)

[@TimothyBussMusic]

You are a very good teacher! It took me a while to understand when you said "devil up" you meant "develop"... lol! I am really going to enjoy this series since I don't have time to take your course right now and I think that every little bit helps!!! Thanks!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Timothy Buss Thanks! I should learn how to pronounce it properly hahaha!!!

[@TimothyBussMusic]

Maybe I could give you help with your diction and you can teach me chords...

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

But you just said that you don't have time, hehe ;)

[@TimothyBussMusic]

Later...

[@TimothyBussMusic]

I'll give you the diction lessons for free... lol

[@LeeHoMusic]

How Your Suhr strat compares to Fender strat?

[@BillKeilt]

Nice lesson, Antoine. I like how you formalize this into the 3 regions. I've sort of informally been following this but didn't really know that the muddiness of the lower areas was due to the harmonics having room to bloom. I just thought: Low=Muddy, full stop. So that's interesting. And it then makes sense that when playing in the upper region, I should try adding color notes to provide the harmonic boost. Good stuff, thanks......

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

I think you really got the point of this lesson! Thanks mate :)

[@BillKeilt]

:>)

[@koomy]

Did you used delay or only reverb ? What effect/preset did you use to get that perfect sound ?

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

For the looping part I did use delays and reverb (Neunaber Wet, Strymon El Capistan, Diamond Memory Lane Jr.). For the other examples it was just the Neunaber delay!

[@andresgomez396]

I didn't understand the upper part, do you mean it's more effective to add more notes than the root and the third? Nice video btw!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

That's exactly what I meant! When you are playing higher you could play root-2nd-3rd-4th-5th in a row in the same chord if you want and it's still going to sound good! But the more you play low, the more you have to seperate the space between your intervals to avoid muddiness!

[@javierpadilla4608]

What’s your pedal setup on this?

[@angkit216]

Thanks bro. I want to learn electric guitar in order to use this in church ministry God bless

[@peteskyrunner4845]

What pedal/effect are you using to get that sustain please?

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Strymon Big Sky!

[@peteskyrunner4845]

@@AntoineMichaudGuitar Great thank you :-) I forgot to say, I just started watching your videos and I love them. You really know your stuff and explain everything so well.

[@ThreeMiningHD]

Hey , what Pedal do you use for this "sustaining chords" stuff at the end of The Video?

[@petergray453]

I believe there is a freeze option in the strymon reverb pedal. He made a video where he explains it in detail.

[@ThreeMiningHD]

@@petergray453 oh cool thank you, i will look up this Video, really cool Sound effect, i think it opens up a whole bunch of creativity for guitar Sounds

[@petergray453]

@@ThreeMiningHD Immerse has this option too. Plus there is a separate sustain pedal that freezes any sound coming directly from the guitar, not only reverb. It's called PLUS pedal.

[@caidencuevas8775]

What pedals are you using for this?

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

For the looping part I used delays and reverb (Neunaber Wet, Strymon El Capistan, Diamond Memory Lane Jr.). For the other examples it was just the Neunaber delay!

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Lil Bean meth

[@ContainsIt]

6 minutes in before I realized "Devil up" was really develop.

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

😂😂😂 I had a lot of things to learn on pronounciation back then!

[@ContainsIt]

@@AntoineMichaudGuitar I hope my comment didn't come off mocking you. I love learning about language and dialect so things like that are very interesting to me. I just thought it was funny how long it took me to realize. 😆 Great video, thank you for the excellent info and chord shapes.

[@thrakh5842]

Pourquoi tu fais pas tes capsules en Français ? lol yen a pas sur le net

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Au début (en 2012), je ne faisais que de la musique sur ma chaîne. J'ai commencé à parler il y a seulement 3 ou 4 ans et je me suis rendu compte dans mes statistiques que 75% de mes abonnés venaient soit des USA, UK et Australie. Je l'ai fait en anglais par la force des choses au lieu de recommencer à zéro tous mes efforts investis depuis des années!

[@AstraTheMelodicWeapon]

lesson was helpful and informative but you didnt teach well but it was a great lesson to look forward

[@GMAJOR613]

Antoine Michaud , parles tu francais? es tu québecois??

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Oui!

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[@SMart7751]

Your lessons are really good. But please, please shut off the reverb and effects so they can be heard dry. That will enhance the effectiveness of the lessons instead of muddying with the effects. Thanks for a great lesson! 😊

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Wow! You have a face :-)

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Yes, I used to have a face ;-)

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[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Do you have a suggestion? :)

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I like it!