Soloing School: Triads Into Melodies And Improvising Over Chords

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[@PatP1508]

Wow Levi, thank you so much!!! What an awesome lesson, it really helps a lot! Exactly what I needed as a first step in my journey!.

[@SanjuBadiger-c7d]

😂😂👌👌🧑👌

[@mauriziomoretti5392]

16:00 “sorry, I played again the minor third, from minor to major. It’s a habit, it’s called making music…” priceless!!

[@fendersucks9872]

Great video. Funny story for you...When i moved to Nashville, TN in 2000, I asked a very well known guitar player for one tip..He said "learn triads". I've talked to him throughout the years and as a parting question, i ask him for another tip, he laughed and said "power chords"

[@exploreduniaalam8926]

Keren jooos gandos maaknyooos Amazing ok salam sehat selalu🙏🙏🙏

[@memerinos6179]

This is a huge boost in my guitar playing after learning pentatonic scales. This is an incredibly helpful video thank you so much, I sound so good!!

[@braydenshifflett9806]

@Memerinos how’s it going now

[@SuperheroToyShowdowns]

Hey Levi, it would be swell if you wrote a book focused purely on triads, or even a series going from beginner to advanced from learning to cover the neck in triads to advanced improvisation techniques using triads. I really like your teaching style. Thanks for the videos.

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@tomlupton3975]

Odd comment, but... the combination of that pick, amp settings, and (what the heck are those double rails?!) give such nuance to the attack! I'm really enjoying that texture!

[@LeviClay]

Those are Danny Gattons pickups by JBE electronics

[@michaelmoreno5038]

This is by far the best lesson on triads on YT. Thanks for sharing, Levy!

[@hgostos]

Love the tone of that tele. Thanks for the lesson

[@EE-yv7xg]

Hey Levi, What about 3rd of minor chord ? Do I play from flat of minor triad and land on minor 3rd during a minor chord ?

[@LeviClay]

You can. That’s a lovely sound too

[@drutgat2]

Thanks very much for this.

[@jojo1865]

Great video man Thanks alot

[@ullabratt1900]

Can you use this in Metal rock? Or only Dolly Parton Rock??? K.B.

[@fernandomancilla947]

Awesome and overall UNDERSTANDABLE lesson boss... Thanks great playing and good audio and video quality

[@Guitargate]

Levi - Great job man. Love your work and playing!

[@xvarzka33]

You're a treasure man

[@carlsalazar4490]

I found a great way to breakout of patterns is to learn to play the melody of songs. It trains you ear to find the notes on the fretboard.

[@redheadguy]

So...what I think I’m understanding from watching the video is that in order to do this...I need a Telecaster. Got it! Gear equals musicianship, right? Right?

[@LeviClay]

RedHead Guy can confirm... when I try and do this on any other guitar... it sucks

[@digital6string1]

Sound like JB pickups,love them.Great video,thanks.

[@LeviClay]

spot on!

[@notebender4]

Good stuff man...The whole getting from arp's and triads to melodies is EXACTLY what I've been looking for...Rock, and or twang, on man! Thanks...

[@paulbiscaro578]

Chord diagrams need some explanation. I'm sure its simple but doesn't make sense to me.

[@Riddlemewalker]

Great so now I want to skip work and practice. Thanks a lot :-)

[@princejmn]

exact same thought here!

[@carperlacy]

Haha been in that frame of mind many time 😂

[@monkface]

Ha I even see some off my teachers in the Patreon credits!

[@LeviClay]

+monkface you have great taste in teachers! 😎

[@nickzeltzer]

this is great but feel like it would add lots more to the ear to loop the chords in the background?

[@michaelslawinski1821]

Or sustaining the cord?

[@offmymeds2994]

Maybe you play the chord as you listen

[@hanskung3278]

Does Fender make a " two stringed guitar tuned in sevenths?"

[@kagenotatsumaki]

This is the best video on how scales and triads fit together. Thanks Blonde Sargon of Akkad! XP

[@billdorton5550]

bein tryin to get this you just cracked the nut, my pain is the crushing of the shell of my understanding,

[@frannyd1217]

So bring the flat 3rd in as a passing tone? Am I correctly understanding?

[@jorgeovallemeneses9781]

Muy bien explicado gracias

[@Sledgehammers_Nail]

Wtf is up with the pictures of the chords? You have black squares and shit in them.

[@precisionsoundworksstudio]

Thank you - Thank you - Thank you. A triad of thank yous, Levi!

[@stephanepoirier5542]

I love this guy's slightly condescending tone sometimes, especially when he demonstrates examples of playing well below his level. It makes me laugh. That being said, I learned more spending five minutes here than watching a dozen other videos or left to my own devices. Respect!

[@LeviClay]

I love this guys slightly condescending comments at all times

[@stephanepoirier5542]

@@LeviClay Ouch.

[@fenderman21guitar]

Great lesson, however I feel that when you keep going on about not learning from books (or at least putting down that kind of approach) ie with your minor 3rd to major 3rd slide, you are most likely making it harder for people to understand, i dont think people should get in to the habbit of learning the tricks and nuances without first understanding why those nuances work in the first place, otherwise it just adds to them playing blind.

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Each to their own. Personally i think if you can teach people theory without them knowing that they are learning theory all the better. The people that are theoretically inclined will find theory. Everyone else wants to make music. If they can do that without FEELING they are learning theory that's surely a sign of a good teacher.

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Playing blind is playing without knowing how what are about to play will sound. It has nothing to do with knowing the labels. I know this cos I'm a very theoretical guy. I could tell you all about thee names of scales and intervals....dont exactly know how they sound though.

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

@picknngrinnin Its hard not to for various reasons. I never set about learning interval shapes but through chord and scale knowledge yes i know all the shapes. Again that doesn't mean i have those sounds in my ear. Im working on that via melodies. How about you? The theory thing its crazy. I just find it addictive. From very early in my guitar journey.

[@stephenpounder3373]

I still don't know what a trade is, and I've watch many explanations!! Why can't you guys just go slow show where your fingers are on the fretboard and say yeah this is a triad, play it. Make it plain or your just confusing everybody. But I guess that's your intention

[@LeviClay]

Dude, if you have the wealth of the internet at your fingertips, and you want to blame the internet for you not getting something… I’m not the problem.

[@PublicUrinals]

Man I wish when I searched for a topic video.. they strictly spoke about said topic. You tube is starting to mirror cooking recipes online where 90% of the content is personal stories that don't matter. Next.

[@LeviClay]

Sure thing man, you know what you need… that’s why you’re looking for free videos on KZbin rather than just doing the thing 👍🏻

[@RabidPrimeape]

sounds beautiful but honestly, i'm lost.

[@АннаГалтаева-ц2д]

Thank you very much! Your lesson really helped me to connect the dots) now I know in what direction to swim! And, btw, I like how you explain things - so close to reality, profound, and not too wordy. You are a cool teacher :D

[@kjellbratt6301]

Sounds like shadows, can i use it in Metal rock?

[@williamb3323]

lost. thanks for your time though.

[@erikroque2133]

I really like how Levi teaches!he never rushes anything like a lot of lick library teachers and other!!I appreciate your lessons! I'm on the "mastering the blues" series. Highly recommend!

[@LeviClay]

Thanks so much Erik. I have a passion for education, it’s not just a paycheck as it is for many

[@erikroque2133]

@@LeviClay I can tell!!it really shows.

[@PeterKeaneMusic]

Great tutorial. Your tone hear reminds me a lot of Jim Campilongo.

[@defleppardsucks5189]

productive video, better than pissing contests with other youtubers

[@LeviClay]

It’s almost like they represent less that 1% of my videos 🙄

[@defleppardsucks5189]

@@LeviClay snarky, lol

[@LeviClay]

When you get abuse in your email inbox 24 hours a day... you gotta learn to be 😂

[@defleppardsucks5189]

@@LeviClay that kind of comes with youtube sadly

[@hanskung3278]

Non power chords exist?

[@williampaisley826]

Great lesson building a foundation and learning the guitar neck.will help in all styles of playing. Also developing ur ear

[@megarxidas17]

Clays books are excellent

[@theprolixramblr4307]

THIS is EXACTLY what I've needed. This content is what has been lacking from other authors (who are amazing in their own right, don't get me wrong here). I've watched so many of your videos already and have found myself asking, where has this teacher been in all my years of struggling to understand these concepts. Holy cow!!

[@Cliffolaus]

Hey Levi! I have been searching the Tube for years, but I don't believe I have ever seen this topic so superbly, clearly, patiently, understandably, professionally and inspirationally presented as you have done here! And in such a pleasing and absolutely mellow fashion! I am HOOKED! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! I am looking forward to checking out all the other lessons!! I feel like you have opened up a number of new "Doors" for me today!! This really seriously resonates with me in every way! Thanks again Levi, and I wish you one of the very best years you have ever had! You just got mine off to a VERY GOOD start!!!

[@LeviClay]

Thanks so much for the kind words Cliff! I’m here if you need me

[@shannongordon6746]

I am pausing everything else I am using cause this lesson is exactly where I am at and need. I was literally explaining this to my wife this process and just found this video. Thank you so much!

[@tonymccormick21]

Thanks Levi. I bought your recent book on Triads...working through it at the moment.

[@pastry8281]

Wow, very knowledgeable, pleasant voice and easy on the eyes. Subscribed. I'm getting my shell pink bullet strat tomorrow :)

[@KaliopiMuse]

Hi Levi, Thank you for this is great. I would like your chord diagrams mirrored or flipped up here because I find it difficult to follow.

[@adoneran]

you should learn to read chord charts properly.

[@007thespecialone]

I am still stuck within the pentatonic scales.. i don't even sound melodic,hopefully this video will help me. I

[@almostclement4975]

Dropped my phone and accidentally unliked this video, but I just un-unliked it. Sorry.

[@LeviClay]

+Almost Clement 😂

[@joedemarco8498]

Triad and melody

[@Jkautsky]

Don't learn any chord shapes beyond power chords because that'll lead to playing jazz and we don't need that! :D

[@jdavis6650]

My two cents on triads. In and of themselves, they provide small fragments of the musical language. If you can't form a sentence, then start with triads.

[@l4chl4nb]

Maybe a dumb question but why the minor 3rd when the chords are all major (i'm up to kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKnEaqOvobx8qa8)? I think it's as simple as "it adds a bit of melancholy or country/blues feel" but curious if there's a better answer...

[@LeviClay]

it's never just the minor 3rd. It's always minor 3rd resolving to major 3rd. Tension and resolution. Think less theory and more cultural. It's a huge part of the style.

[@Tennis_Fan2022]

Thank you for this. Felt like this gave me insight into how Jerry Garcia approached the fret board.

[@Skinned_Knees]

Chasing 3rds!

[@nyzombiesquad182]

just learned triads...can now turn the into melodic phrases...tytytyty

[@durangomcmurphy1529]

After three commercials before the Video , and the first thing this guy does is plug something , I shut it off .

[@LeviClay]

you didn't pay anything for it... and you're passing up on a lesson with 50k views with a 35:1 like to dislike ratio... If that seemed like a good idea to you, I can confirm you won't get much from this video

[@durangomcmurphy1529]

@@LeviClay I don't buy a pig in a poke , I don't go to a restaurant and pay for the meal BEFORE i eat it ( except in fast food restaurants who make you pay first because they know that if you actually taste the food you WON'T pay ) . 50k views mean nothing , I played jazz & rock for 40 years and have studied improvisation with studio musicians from the NBC Studio Orchestra and the Stan Kenton band . The point is the Internet is becoming Television . I've had enough with jute boxes , DJ , clubs who actually have the audacity to charge musicians to play , and have no interest in another musician selling out to corporate interests . I was at Jaco Pastorious first gig in Miami . I'm sure the video was great if you are 15 . I'm not . It's not about THIS video , it's about the systematic control of the Internet by corporate interests .

[@LeviClay]

Durango McMurphy that’s a lot of words... all of them betrayed by the fact that you clicked on the video... AND sat through ads for it to start... So you can tell me how you know everything all you like... your actions tell a different story buddy! But good for you... you’ve been to some gigs.

[@durangomcmurphy1529]

@@LeviClay Yes , at first I actually intended to watch it , one never knows when one might pick up a useful tip . I didn't object to the first ad , people have to make a living . It was the continued barrage of ads, and the assault on the sensibilities that followed . The would-be corporate masters of the Internet are fundamentally greedy . Never satisfied . Rod Serling , the late dramatist ( Twilight Zone ) said he stopped writing for Television because he didn't want his dramatic work interrupted every ten minutes by a rabbit selling toilet paper . Just to see , I watched it . You're not exactly Les Paul or John Coltrane when it comes to improvisation . Try selling toilet paper .

[@rafaol.5132]

Hey, I just discovered Your channel, I like especially 2 parts of soloing school, Do You have plan doing part 3 about using triads in chords changes?

[@djh6970]

So Elvis’s lover doll is the country scale. Who knew😀

[@Pablo.Degregori]

,mayor pentatonic added minor third plus passing tone in between whole steps.

[@dzungpham]

Very nice, this is exactly what i'm looking for. I want to play chord while soloing

[@27guyguy]

Hello Levi, great job!! Do you teach Western swing guitar?

[@TimsGuitarWorldwithTimFeskorn]

This is a great lesson. Thanks Levi. Triads are the one thing that will clear up allot of the confusion and anxiety regarding the Modes. If we learn triad harmony in the given key it can reveal the patterns that are hidden..... we open up a myriad of improvisational options.

[@lukebauer5495]

I was definitely not expecting to gain such an understanding of the modes when learning triads, but it is true.

[@celticsession1]

HOLY MOTHER OF**%% the penny has dropped!!! Levi Clay you have taken away all the bullshit from this topic... and placed it on a platter for all confused frustrated guitar players!! Steve Stein, Marty, Justin EVERYONE... This is how you wrap up and teach a topic without selling 15 DVDs to explain the above!!! HATS OFF LEVI!!!! I can finally play guitar...and chord follow with the basic knowledge needed to produce melody!!!!

[@LeviClay]

Fantastic! My teaching is about getting results, and I firmly believe that my KZbin content is enough for a certain type of student. For those that need more guidance, I have books and I do private lessons (for a fraction of one any of those guys would charge!).

[@SurfaridelMarIzaakWarmenhoven]

I have trouble with these chord diagrams

[@uncleposs]

This definitely got me going...I am sounding like jazz now after watching this. Thanks so much.

[@holdfast6882]

Dude you are so on point please sir keep up the good work absolutely great thanks man👍!!

[@JoeyAdes]

Enjoying this video. I can play the chords and copy the riffs pretty well by ear. (Sounds like phish). I don’t understand the triads so well. 😢😢

[@LeviClay]

Not to plug my weekly guided practice routines on Patreon… but that’s what you need there!

[@kevon217]

Love your channel. Such great advice.

[@agutzilbelianes7737]

Levi THANK YOU so much for this màster class to the core Cheers!!

[@russellmccallum3606]

Thank you, this just what I've been looking for to advance my playing!!

[@LeviClay]

You’re welcome Russell!

[@FabrizioPeretti]

love it man. so much thanks! your tone is great as well.. what where you using?

[@LeviClay]

It’s a Dr Z maz18 profile on the Kemper

[@Slamo28]

For me the key was the constant downward picking during chord tone improvising. I was watchin your picking for the chord tone improvising and u always used downward picking then switched to alternate for scales and pentatonic. Can’t explain it but it worked like a charm for me. Great lesson thanks

[@LeviClay]

I can explain it! When I started learning gypsy jazz and studied the picking I understood that downstrokes pushing inward into the guitar give you a shit ton more bass and projection to the note - so now I use downstrokes whenever I'm emphasising a melody.

[@victorformosa2825]

Playing triads on the top 3 strings alone can create some nice melodies.

[@consolectterree7030]

So inshort I'll just add the flat third amd use triad shapes to solo

[@WickBeavers]

superior

[@TimsGuitarWorldwithTimFeskorn]

BTW you have a great presents on your videos. Your videos are high quality and the audio is very clean and well balanced. Thanks for your excellent content on You Tube.

[@MarioMartinez-bu6jr]

Hi Levi thanks for teaching, I just wanted to know if there is a DVD or CD with your method?

[@LeviClay]

All on my Patreon

[@ChristofferKeizer]

Great lesson. This precisely what I need to be working on.

[@fabiansylvester7046]

brilliant Levi really helpful and well explained. Top Man

[@JordanHunterNZ]

I just came to see your Gattoncaster, those pickups really make that Danny sound!😍🤩

[@LeviClay]

It’s magic

[@timg.8656]

Thanks. I just subscribed (and used the bell for notifications). Useful info!👍

[@LeviClay]

Awesome, thank you!

[@xxcelr8rs]

Subscribed. Excellent teaching. Sliding that minor third to Major will be good way for me to remember where the dang thirds are to begin with.

[@LeviClay]

Bingo! It’s works! Thanks for checking it out Brian :)

[@kc8923]

Useful in parts but clarifying what notes you were playing and where for each triad would have made it easier to understand.

[@mindcontrol67]

This video is for someone who already has an understanding of where all the triads are.Its like watching a video on how to rebuild a transmission and not even knowing what a transmission is or where it is. Learn your triads,They are the chords.Triad = 3. This video was clear as day.

[@diagoskybeats9086]

very very nice video! thanks !!

[@frankiesunswept]

OMG I've been saying 'blues lawyer' for YEARS HAHA. Great great videos my man, thank you for sharing your talent for teaching :)

[@philrisser6853]

do you have a video on all the triads. just simply the triads. i know it will help with my playing

[@LeviClay]

Not on KZbin. They’re all in the first weekly guided practice routine on my Patreon

[@MartinGalero]

You rock, James Corden!

[@onthe1481]

James Corden is way more talented... That's a fact

[@dicksdiggers]

​@@onthe1481 James Corden is a fat, no talent sack of shit. He's also not funny because apparently he's supposed to be a comedian?

[@TheTelecasterforever]

What makes you all so disrespectful? The anonymity of the internet?

[@jdhed1]

Thanx to all those who threw down some of that sweet, sweet skrilla. Much love, BITCHES!!!

[@youngolder57]

Amazing lesson ! thanx

[@sawt00th]

Thanks Levi, just started getting into this and your video is excellent. Cheers mate!

[@LeviClay]

You’re very welcome

[@annettesomers7463]

Why do you not have 1 million subscribers? Great lesson!

[@LeviClay]

Only you can help make that happen! ❤️

[@larryfarkas]

Awesome. Thanx.

[@KhmerMusicSamkhan]

Good lesson bro......

[@shaleensharma2731]

Hi Levy. How much do you charge for a skype session??

[@LeviClay]

£30, or you get one a month plus all the other benefits at the $50 level on Patreon