READING MUSIC Is So Much EASIER When You Do THIS.

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[@taggart8]

🎸Eyup Ricky, it sounds like trouble clef here.There must be a lot of guitar gurus on You Tube who hate you simplifying guitar technique for the penniless masses.Your truly the people’s Baldrick 🎸

[@rickysguitar]

It’s all part of a cunning plan!

[@taggart8]

“As cunning as the old smoking fox Hendrix who’s just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Glastonbury ?”

[@patriciajrs46]

You're. Not your.

[@anordinaryguy4677]

You're the instructor i need..my Guitar says just play the chord , why you want to know these things.. whenever i asked questions related to it.

[@hayesdabney]

Your explanations are like climbing into a warm bath! Well done.

[@dustdevilz4771]

Excellent. Answered many questions for me. I’ll be referring back to this video. Thanks

[@InsolentMusicalPeasant]

You always manage to make the most confounding things easy to understand. Such an amazing skill. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@ronniemorrison9060]

Yet another great lesson…Thank you so much, please keep them coming.

[@gratefuldev23]

Time watching your videos is always time well spent. Many thanks for sharing your wisdom.

[@c5back9]

Now I understand why most guitar players I know are absolutely nuts.

[@GrahamMylett]

This is brilliant!! Thank you for explaining in such a way that makes it easily understandable and transferable.

[@benclaase8181]

Thank you Ricky for your great explanations. I have been playing basic guitar ( strumming and some arpeggios) for many years but never had a chance to spent time on music theory. I am intrigued. Eager to learn more. Cheers Ben 🎸

[@wudashudacuda]

Thank you Ricky for putting this up. I think I'll have to go through this a couple of times but it's a great resource that works alongside your book. 🙂

[@JohnPW22]

Always though the bass clef was bit of vodoo - but your explanation with the circle of thirds blew my brain! How simple is that! Many many thanks!

[@TommyNitro]

What a great explanation going from very simple and adding more layers in an understandable manner. Thank you.

[@mt-qc2qh]

I've been watching your videos for a few months now. I'm looking forward to getting your book of diagrams. You're a great teacher, both knowledge-wise and personality. I enjoy every lesson. Thank you for your contributions to the art.

[@mrbadiuzzaman]

I've just popped over from your youtube channel. You've done it again...making music notation so simple and stress free like no other so called guitar guru . Keep up the great work Ricky 🙏

[@ronniemorrison9060]

Hi Ricky thanks for another wonderful lesson, please keep them coming, just to let you know I appreciate all the time and effort it takes in making and uploading such great content.

[@philm.6113]

Thanks for posting this. Great teaching style.

[@patriciajrs46]

Thank you for your unique presentation of the fundamentals of music theory. It helps true novice beginners learn more with understanding.

[@andersonrochadealbuquerque5580]

Ricky, thanks a lot. You are an excellent teacher. Guitarrists generally don't read music, although it's so important.

[@steveikerd7]

Thank you so much for the lesson!

[@thomasmartinscott]

Excellently explained! You have a lot more patience than I do.

[@billallen1594]

Thank you Ricky. Very well explained. Got a bit lost at the end tbh but will watch again

[@toddshepard3592]

Awesome lesson ! Thank you

[@scottwinarski6595]

Rickey you are brilliant to explain music in your manner, love it.

[@robertakerman3570]

Missed Ricky for a bit.

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci. I'm coming from the piano, so I watched the first part and got some good pointers.

[@brianambelis5869]

another fantastic lesson. thank you

[@paulatB2B]

Great video. Really helpful revision. I'm going to apply it to a Villa Lobos prelude with masses of sharps and flats.

[@wrangler548]

Well done number one , Thank you for sharing this very valuable long lost theory , a best way for beginners & pro's alike . a

[@MonkeyDLuffy-cq2lo]

Good point.

[@thunderace4588]

Thank you for making this lesson for us Ricky.

[@rickysguitar]

My pleasure!

[@girmaybass68]

Very good teacher! Just subscribed!

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@Beliar_VR]

Wow, it was absolutely mind-blowing for me to find out that I'm one of the 2,7% that are already knowing this!

[@jamescurnutt1628]

The X-Axis is hoizontal. The Y-Axis is verticle in all graphing and mathematics. I teach mathematics and often use music to connect the dots with my students. Pretty great lesson though.

[@rickysguitar]

Thanks for the info

[@johnbobbitt6872]

This is due to using a right-hand rule rotation rule to go from x to y. Thumb along x, fingers along y OR thumb out of the page (z axis) so fingers wrap from x to y. The notation is embodied in the logo of The Institute of Electrical and Electrronics Engineers (IEEE). The x-y-z coordinate system allows location in 3-dimensional for mechanical and graphics use. Some 3D graphics programs use left-hand rule which messes folks up. Complex numbers (those involved with the square root of -1) as a function of time can be represented using x for the real part, y for the imaginary part and z for time. Thanks to the French mathematician Rene Descarte for Cartesian coordinates. The three axes are mutually orthogonal (at right angles to each other). As with math, music and many other areas demand learning a notation system that suits the topic. It is vexing, but can be fun. I like your explanation of the grand staff.

[@vinonvincent5326]

Reky you are unselfish human being God ever created on earth we love what you teaching and thank you Sir”

[@2979paul]

Just found your site. Great lesson

[@S9staryu]

I wish i learned how to read music with this method

[@dpgedward5947]

brillant teacher

[@BahreahTheAll-Knower]

Treble clef and bass clef show vortexes. Treble is centripetal and pulls the force through the middle and the bass is centrifugal, pushing the force outwards. Your reference is the resonating note. Everything else is the Fibonacci sequence 0-1-1-2-3-5-8. 1-3-5 is a major. 1-2-5 is a minor. When you divide two consecutive Fibonacci numbers you get the golden number, which is vortex mathematics.

[@robertakerman3570]

"cycle of thirds" is genius. Not a bad chord there. CEG EGB GBD BDF DFA FAC & ACE

[@stephanQ.eberhard]

Hey Ricky. Nice work. Thank you so much. Do you have a mnemonic for the cycle of thirds backwards?

[@MusicManFernando]

Great lesson, I always found it confusing that guitar music is written in the treble clef and the notes one octave lower than where they sound. So, middle C is written one ledger line below the staff but it sounds like the note on the second string (B) on the first fret. I think that is crazy.

[@rexbenemerito1943]

Hi Ricky maybe you will write a new book about Music Theory similar to your KZbin Guitar Lesson Compilation Book. You are unselfishly awesome online Music Teacher. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@rickysguitar]

“Music Theory for Guitar From Scratch” - sounds like a plan Rex! Thank you for your kind words :)

[@phiddler1]

you should shut that drone off in the backgroung gives me vertigo

[@rickysguitar]

Some folks dig it. Go figure...

[@billyfromla1117]

17:05, 18:24, 5:12,5:52

[@kjypeace]

When you were notating the G major scale in treble clef, shouldn’t there also be a # indicated on the lowest space of the staff (F) or is that assumed?

[@rickysguitar]

Any time an F is placed on or off the staff it is by the default an F#. The accidentals in the key signature declare that, so yes assumed.

[@patriciajrs46]

Do you also teach understanding time notations? I always got confused when I got past quarter notes. Why don't they just write the notes to be played, instead of being confusing and writing the double sharp or double flat? Why make it so complicated?

[@rickysguitar]

Eyup Patricia! I have a time signature video on my shoot list! Double sharps/flats are there to help navigate across keys. So if you see them, it’s a useful signal you’re about to change key!

[@marekmosat7176]

I just discored your channel and this is second video I am wathinch from you. I am baffled. Your style of explanation works for my amateur mind perfectly. I can not explain my gratitude enough by words.

[@moodiblues2]

Ricky, I started watching your video hoping to increase my sight reading capabilities and if I didn’t already know how to read music, (I play piano, keyboards and some guitar-poorly) I would have been hopelessly lost by your explanations. I’m not trying to knock you but you put explanations that should take place over several lessons with weeks of much smaller bits to understand. You offered too much info for someone with minimal understanding of notation to learn in one lesson. I forced myself to watch the video way beyond the point where I could get anything out of it, and I already know music notation. Break your lesson up into four lessons building on each other and you’ll have a winner as you obviously have a interesting and deep understanding of notation to teach.

[@rickysguitar]

Duly noted Robert. Sometimes it's very difficult to know when enough is enough with KZbin. Sometimes it's too little, sometimes it's too much. My instinct tells me this would be better formatted as a course. There are follow up videos for this topic too so I'll bear your comments in mind. Thanks for the feedback

[@moodiblues2]

@@rickysguitar I look forward to viewing and learning from your other videos 🎹🎼

[@TheTimeProphet]

I play guitar, but I couldn't remember all this LOL. Why don't they put enough lines in heh heh

[@StarDarkAshes]

This is a bit fast and I got some of it, but it would be great if it was broken down into smaller chunks. Like, maybe there could be a video kind of going over each little part with many more examples and details. The very first bit such as the first 10 minutes or so I pretty much knew what was going on and then I totally got lost. maybe there could be a new set of videos that go over each little part in more detail. I would definitely watch all of them because I like the teaching style but it’s a little bit too fast.

[@OdaKa]

I agree, although pausing and rewinding helps mitigate that a little. Also a bit of information overload. There's a lot of stuff you're assumed to know, like what whole steps and half steps are. You'd have to Google search what that stuff means

[@goodtimehotline69]

Where’s the Wyclef ?

[@spiridonzoulemides4081]

Hi Rick, Everything spot on, just a quick question. Guitar open high E, on the treble clef, in the space. I want it to sound in the 24th fret. I could add an 8va15ma above it and it sounds in the 24th fret, right? Cheers.

[@rickysguitar]

8va means the pitch is played 1 octave higher. 15ma means the pitch is played 2 octaves up. If you have a band score that useful for saving space I’ve the staff so yes! The high E in the staff notated 15ma would sound at the 24th fret.

[@spiridonzoulemides4081]

@@rickysguitar cheers my mate, thank you for the great content!

[@nathanbaker9837]

at about 04:21 I think you mean "Y axis".

[@rickysguitar]

I don’t know my X from my Y it seems…

[@rhuggins573]

Los me at accidentals and incidentally I've just had an accident! :D

[@rickysguitar]

Accidentals is just fancy shmancy words for sharps, flats and naturals. Hope you haven’t injured yourself!

[@rhuggins573]

@@rickysguitar Oooooh Matron! :D

[@mouldyfart]

1:33 so a staff but in an irish accent

[@rickysguitar]

Irish? Yorkshire matey!!

[@edzmuda6870]

Oh… All along I thought H comes after G.

[@TheArmchairrocker]

Yorkshire?

[@rickysguitar]

Aye!

[@sepporankinen]

Of course treble clef is ”George,” cos ”he knows all the chords”, but ”Fred” 🤔 …anyone?

[@FrettieFingers]

Fred will kick your bottom (notes)

[@rickysguitar]

😂😂

[@taggart8]

Fred had very few bum notes, but that was in Barcelona darlings

[@TheLochs]

Its funny, I hate Tabs. I learned music in the early 80's and had to learn to read on the piano, then on guitar. Tab is great for specific fingerings on guitar but its annoying to me, I prefer reading. Many times I come up with my own figuring which is why I prefer it I guess.

[@rickysguitar]

I'm not a fan of relying on tabs after you gain more motor control over your hands. Tabs are great for learning a few tunes and getting started. I prefer standard notation as many Tabs are inaccurately transcribed and notes are in completely the wrong position. As you mentioned, "come up with your own fingering". I'm the same! BUT, you can only do that if you can read the dots! I'm not knocking TAB. I do think it's great to learn BOTH! The more you know, the more you know!

[@aureliobrighton1871]

If Peter Green could not do it I'm fine ;)

[@rickysguitar]

That's assuming you're Peter Green...

[@aureliobrighton1871]

@@rickysguitarFunny you bring this up ... just found out I'm neither Blooms .. disappointing but a good reason to work with your video . Thankyou from Germany :)

[@charlesmurray3255]

Who here from FB ?Guitar and Music Theory?

[@rickysguitar]

Me!