Porcupine Tree: ONE chord that made a MILLION songs

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

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[@muhammadrezahaghiri]

I do the same thing with Am and Em chords. The concept is cool and it can help you be more creative with less chords. The whole concept of "Less is More".

[@softpillow9596]

D-lightful video! :)

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

Awesome pun :-)

[@kropkor]

What a surprise! Big Porucpine Tree fan here! Fear of a Blank Planet is my fav album. You just ruined the whole Steven Wilson songwriting magic for me there. Joking, you didn't. I've never commented on your videos but really loving the content here and your dreamy guitar playing style.

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

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[@Just_Heynz]

Great video! PT is one of my favorite bands!

[@dylansantos5958]

Awesome video! Love Porcupine Tree 🤘 hopefully they'll come back in the future

[@LeonarBolt]

This comment aged very well😏

[@ayanarif1]

They did come back

[@TheGreenKingdom]

Never thought about trying to play any of their songs- the simplicity is probably why everything holds up so well. Great video Antoine!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

For me, the big standout in their music are the drums. Incredibly tasteful playing by Gavin Harrison!

[@TheGreenKingdom]

@@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping I agree, he's awesome

[@johanneshock3508]

... and that is exactly why Gavin Harrison accompanies King crimson on her last tours. Phenomenal with three drummers in the foreground. Antoine, a thousand thanks for the great video, it's crazy, I have P.T. only recently discovered for me, and I am very enthusiastic about Steven Wilson, especially Raider 2 blew me away, even if the Lizard from KC Inspiration was here. Thank you very much Antoine.

[@DreamCheaters]

awesome teacher! well explained and excelent examples, keep it up!

[@dif1354]

You're the best! One of my favorite bands. I bought your Kordz course and love it. Keep up the great work!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

Awesome! Thanks for being a student :-)

[@dif1354]

@@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping Can you do a video on the band Tool?

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

@@dif1354 I have lots of content in the pipeline, but I always take note of all suggestions!

[@dif1354]

Antoine Michaud thanks Antoine. This video made me think of Tool because the guitarist seems to use a lot of the same chords creatively. Have a great day :)

[@jefft5854]

Very interesting and inspiring. Thanks!

[@TheValimeren]

That's priceless!! Thanks a lot!

[@stevesmith3990]

Stupid Dream is my fave but if you haven't heard it you should really check out Signify too. Thanks for the great vid.

[@solarwinds5114]

Signify is amazing

[@megalomania29]

Absolument géniale cette video!

[@danielkerryann]

Excellent video, thank you! :-)

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

My pleasure!

[@armaang96]

Great video! Looking forward to more such videos

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

Did you see I made a second one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3e7gnhobtd8hck

[@armaang96]

@@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping I did.. exactly what I expected 😄👍🏻

[@denverdsouza982]

Great content and production value! Keep it up

[@LASSOV]

this is VERY powerful for ukelele, thanks !

[@corythorpe3176]

Good Stuff Antoine...Love me some PT. Thank you.

[@chrissullins3]

Keep up the good work.

[@angellolopezaguayo]

Niceeee! 🤘🐶🎸

[@dissedharmonix]

Nice run down on Steve’s variant of the D chord. But how could you miss talking about the equally important A#6/9 A#maj6add9 chord that is in so many of the chord progressions of songs off Stupid Dream and In Absentia. It is that je ne sais quois chord that mixed in w Dsus2, Cadd9 and G/B chords that creates that so identifiable Steve Wilson sound. 1st fret on A, B and hi E strings w open D and G. You can slide down from the Cadd9 with sane fingers on same string (just take off maj3 of Cadd9). These chords are found in Arriving Somewhere, Even Less, Pure Narcotic, Sound of Muzak and others.

[@IGotAHaloRoundMyHead]

Yup... he uses it all the time and I have only found it in SW songs. I prefer to call it a B♭6(9) and I refer to it as "the Steven Wilson chord". It mixes well with Em7 as well, as in Pure Narcotic. I figures prominently in the Buying New Soul chorus: B♭6(9) - Cadd9 - Dsus2 - F/C (or Dm9 for Wes), and in the Harmony Korine chorus: Dsus2 - B♭6(9) - Cadd9 - E♭add9 (X-6-5-0-6-6)

[@Theboydevoye]

I love you for these videos. Honestly hands down some of the most pleasing videos to learn from! Natrual teaching vibes you have! Thank you so so much for sharing with all of us im going to check out your courses! :) P.S Any favorite guitar pedals you have? I just got a walrus audio slö and i absolutely just love it... i have a feeling you have one XD Thanks again!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

My favorite is the Strymon El Capistan! I'm a sucker for tape delays, and I love how you can mess with the sound on sound looper and deteriorate your loops up to totally crazy territories. Thanks man!

[@jettrainbow]

Interesting video.

[@beepst]

Lot of Porcupine Tree songs are based on these chords in open position (or they equivalent using a capo): Amaj, Dsus2, Fmaj7, Em, and Csus2.

[@Micky-yo3ng]

Porcupine Tree was a great band, I’ll see if I can use the video as a base to work out more of their music. But I have one question: a pinky on the 3rd fret adds a fourth, but at the 4th it’s b11? How?

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

It's actually a #11, but yes. We're just talking semantics of music theory, but basically, a 4th is the same thing as a 11th. When we're talking chords extensions we always use odd numbers, that's why I mentionned ''#11''. But when we're talking about suspended chords, we say ''sus4'' instead of ''sus11''. Spelling chords the right way is very confusing sometimes.

[@audonfred7487]

Super vidéo sur un groupe des années 2000 Ton Re majeur sonne super bien mais d'ailleurs pourquoi S Wilson n'utilise pas de capodastre ? Es que l'accord sonnerait moins bien dans ce cas ? Merci

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

Ils en utilisent! Une de leur chanson les plus populaires ''Trains'' utilise un capo à la 5ième frette. Et ce n'est pas juste un groupe des années 2000, leur dernier album date de 2022!

[@audonfred7487]

@@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping Oui Train 👍 Je vais l'apprendre. Depuis Porcupine Tree je me suis orienté vers le néo progr : Pendragon, Marillion et même Neil Morse. Bonne continuation

[@diogoqueiroz4726]

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[@salsabilahmedshrestho960]

I guessed it right! :D

[@fromoverseas8667]

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[@gahb4326]

Awesome video! Could you something similar with Opeth if its possible?

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

Thanks! I did this video for Opeth: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn-XdISZf7KAhZY

[@sirius_li]

"Pure Narcotic" aka "Sweet Home Alabama".

[@qsounds595]

The Dsus2 is the most commonly used one of theirs

[@alphanumeric1529]

I was asking for videos for short sausage fingered people on another video... This video covers a lot of chords that are playable by us unfortunate guitar players. I notice, the left hand stuff is fairly easy, with easy single finger modulations that are pretty usually reachable, but the strength of the playing is in the right hand, you've got to be a fast and accurate picker, with up and down strokes AND string skipping. That's not so easy to do without a lot of practice, for me at least. I ALWAYS lose my place, my index, like my right hand will move a tiny bit, just a centimeter or even just a few mm, and then I'm off by a string or two when I go to pic the next string! Do you have any right hand picking exercise videos? I'd love to commit some time to quickly improving my right hand, would help in so many lagging areas of my guitar playing. Thanks man, all of your videos are great, you give great insight, and you don't just steamroll us beginners with data/technique/concepts. Really appreciate it. Thinking you're my fav youtube guitar teacher. Found you a while ago, but with a different account, I think, and life intervened, but I've found you again. Love what you have to teach. THX!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitarLooping]

Thanks for watching my videos! As I have almost 700 videos, with new comments every day on my channel, I won't be able to read very long comments like you left on my last video. I'm sure it's very interesting stuff, but I can't make it a full time job if I read it all. I prioritize short and concise comments that I can answer fast. Hope you understand! As for the sausage finger question, I think you would be much better served with a teacher who actually HAS sausage fingers and can explain how he can work around it and show you techniques to compensate. That wouldn't be very genuine if I touched on this matter with my long spider fingers, since I never had to overcome this issue. Cheers! P.S: here's another lesson I made with simple chords: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJapaqSEiM5-fMU

[@irud]

22.01.2021@13:19 - 200 Likes and 0 Dislikes. Nice :)

[@jeanpatrickscheiner8406]

Radioactive Toy, Pure Narcotic, Last Chance to Evacuate, Buying new soul, Trains, Harmonie Korine..

[@JanssenReyes]

"Disappear" is other one :)

[@MisterCaco]

Also "Buying New Soul"

[@benthies9531]

I didn’t know Porcupine Tree had a million songs.... interesting.

[@memopinzon]

Dsus2

[@ferdifloyd4497]

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[@kabirsharma5417]

Breaking Benjamin does the same kind of stuff on A#

[@Ndlanding]

Never heard of "Porcupine Tree".

[@tiztu6321]

You're missing out!