Learn Chords in Relative Major and Minor Keys on Guitar - Music Theory From the Ground Up Lesson 9

[@TheKoreathonCycle]

I've been playing guitar for about 4 years now and only just in this last year started working adamantly on learning theory. I noticed your /u/ post, this is the exact kind of lessons I've been searching for, i immediately subscribed. Thank you for putting this together. Now i have some new videos to watch and exercises to practice this weekend. I look forward to seeing your other videos

[@ThePinnacleSFA]

I know I’m about a half a decade late but just wanted to let you know that your videos are so helpful. The way you break everything down it just makes grasping the concepts so easy. Hope you’re doing well!

[@brunogiordano2505]

Dude, I think I love you.... now seriously, I'll be forever grateful and I'll always remember of you fondly from this day on (actually, from a few weeks ago when I started with this series)..... Also, I do seriously love you

[@blueiceani6833]

I've played guitar on and off for 8 years and just started watching these videos and it has opened my eyes. Awesome stuff

[@נתנאלגורד]

At 3:41 you wrote 1b35 is major but it is actually a minor. You are perfect thanks a lot!

[@tbugtreybob]

This is awesome man i showed this video to some people i give lessons to! Thanks

[@Keviamaya]

The intro of these series is so sweet, how fast time goes by :)

[@pjokivuo]

Thanks a lot Ben, very informative and useful lesson!

[@Krieger1100]

This is the first time I actually feel like I'm getting better at guitar.

[@arielulloa4146]

did you get better?

[@fake_tourist]

@@arielulloa4146 he won't answer now cause he's become a rockstar

[@bluesguitar7742]

finally!! Easy to understand!! Thank you man!

[@chrismatzenbach1967]

this is great!! i've learned more through this series than anything else i've done before. ***** are there any more videos? I can't find lesson 10 anywhere!

[@hitesh_blues2353]

Thank you for this entire series! Great lessons..tons of information :) Ben I would like to ask you, the intro saxophone tune for all the lessons in this series...where is it from? It is very very good..kinda pulls you in you know..please tell us about it. I'd like to hear more if it's out there somewhere. :)

[@dougthemoleman]

Am I correct to assume if I take the minor bread and the diminished olive and put them out in front, I'd get the relative minor sandwich with all its chords in the correct order? Edit: I really have to learn not to ask stuff until the video is over. Thanks. This is an interesting alternative to the Roman numerals approach. Edit 2: It really boggles my mind that each pair of keys shares the same 7 notes. Sure it's also 7 combinations of triads, but it's just so humbling to realize the relative simplicity at the core. I've learned so much from your channel!

[@nicfoley88]

This is great! Thanks! :)

[@zorankokanovic4665]

great great tutorial

[@Psychopath777]

So do I need to know all the notes on the fretboard like from the last lesson to know how to play the triads on guitar for this lesson?

[@jckmusic6191]

Okay I get how we can find the relatives but what does that have to do with anything. What would we use that for? Where is that used in music today?

[@BenLevin]

+SDMF10 Relatives help you know how to make your music sound more minor or more major without using a different set of notes. If you are in C and want to make things more minor sounding, you can just switch your emphasis to its relative minor "A", which will make things start sounding darker.

[@varunvazirani4964]

Does the order of the triad have to be 1, 3, 5 or can it be 1, 5, 3 as shown here. Does it affect the purity of the chord? I am asking because I just learnt about inversions and how playing the same notes in a different order in a triad can have such stark differences in the sound. For instance C 1st inversion which is a C over E sounds so different from a C major triad. So does it not matter that here we play 1, 5 and 3 instead of 1, 3, 5. I really appreciate your content Ben. I am learning so much.

[@marquisethe]

at 3:22 you have a picture up of the f major chord. There is no note being played on the D string. So what do you do with the D string when stringing this chord?

[@dariorivas3579]

You can fret the third fret so it's another F, this is the standard barre chord, whereas Ben plays the triad with no octavation.

[@נתנאלזוכאים]

I dont understand for example if you create the f chord.so you fret on 6th atring firat fret it is f 5th string third thirs is c and 3rd second fret is a but you also atrum on the open first string and it is actually e and open 2th string which is b and the open 4th which is d so you dont have just f c a...someone has answer?

[@martin92martin92]

how do i know where to put my fingers for the different shapes? i felt like i was understanding quite much until this video. should i go back and watch over, or did you maybe not show how to? thank you anyways for the great videos man !

[@j1o2n3a4s5k6]

Just think about it. He uses kinda like barres shaped like E minor and E maj. Barre in the first would than be an F or Fm. Than he gets rid of all octavations. So he is left with only 3 strings instead of one. Now you can see quit good the shape of the chord. And play arround with it

[@martin92martin92]

+j1o2n3a4s5k6 thank you ! :)

[@Vifnis]

olive goes on top, you made the sandwich wrong, but other than that great!

[@zs23100]

14:00 So why is this Ab and not G#, Ben?

[@killerlegendable]

meowschwitz its the same thing

[@dresdnhope]

Good question! It's the same tone (that is, it's "enharmonic"), but Ab is in the key Fmin, and the relative major is supposed to have the same notes names as its relative minor. To get more complicated, note names in a key are supposed to be all different, and starting from F, you can't use G# because that would give you two Gs in a row: F G G# Bb C Db Eb (and back to F). To get even more complicated, G# wouldn't be used as a because it would have 8 sharps (all the notes would be sharp, plus the F would be double sharp) and Ab is simpler (4 flats). But you asked this a year ago, and you probably don't care anymore.

[@KushTheGamer]

Well this doesnt mean his question was unique just to him :P This helped me! Thanks a lot man.

[@CatPerez2012]

Keep it simple... M m m M M I suggest you use big M for MAJOR, and little m for minor I glanced and said "what?" Then you count the frets to the relative and you miscount on the frets. Pay close attention...you confuse the newbies like that.

[@BenLevin]

CatPerez2012 Thanks for the feedback!