This lesson has got to be a lot of WOW moments for a lot of people. Well done Sean. The tip about 5 and 7 equaling 12 blew me away
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Thanks! I'll try and come up with some more!
@dave_dave27 күн бұрын
Hey Brother! You are absolutely fun to learn from. How long have you been playing guitar, like how old were you when you started? Your personality is very outgoing, too!
@seandaniel2326 күн бұрын
Thanks so much! I started playing at like 17
@TheHesseJames9 ай бұрын
What works for me best when trying to identify the key is: 1. listen to the song 2. hum a constant note along with the song 3. find that note on the guitar 4. whatever chord fits, major or minor, that's your key! Why humming the note? If you are not super proficient in quickly identifying what note fits best on your fretboard like our Sean here, you are most likely much more experienced in humming instinctively the root note of the song's key. Then, finding what you are humming is much easier.
@SlimeyGuitarStrings9 ай бұрын
That's not a bad thing. Lots of crazy good electric guitarists actually hum/sing what they're playing at the same time to help them relate the notes to the guitar and to help with phrasing.
@johndooley78129 ай бұрын
Great lesson. Thanks Sean.👍
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Happy to help!
@ethanrightmyer2559 ай бұрын
Sean!!! Man that was so spot on- you explained it so perfectly for me, made me really start connecting the dots with progressions/ charting and Basic theory THANK YOU!! 🤘
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@aliasrai9 ай бұрын
I can't emphasize how much this short video has taught me. thanks a lot!!
@jporterz28739 ай бұрын
So thanks to you Sean, I changed my strings to Elixir's. I doubt I will ever put nay others on my acoustic guitar. They sound amazing! I'm only about 4 months into playing, and I can tell the difference, in a big way!
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Nice!!
@Tcontinenza9 ай бұрын
It’s really good to see you do a guitar lesson again. It’s always feels resolved. I realize that you have expanded your channel to be more of an entertainment channel and that is fine but it’s really good to return home. Wishing you continued success and thanks for your channel.
@TheHesseJames9 ай бұрын
The problem is that over the years he already covered practically everything of interest for the beginner and intermediate player. And he doesn’t seem wanting to dabble in more advanced stuff like modes or Jazz, Bebop lines and I fully understand this. This would probably overwhelm/ bore his audience and might degrade the entertainment value which is a big plus of his work.
@Tcontinenza9 ай бұрын
@@TheHesseJames it was not a criticism just an observation and a play on progression
@TheHesseJames9 ай бұрын
@@Tcontinenza I didn’t take your post as criticism and I didn’t want to criticize your post. So, all is well :)
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! Always trying to come up with fun ideas :)
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Yeah I don't mind re-teaching things. Also wouldn't mind getting into more advanced stuff, but those videos never really seem to do very well.
@canoworms6099 ай бұрын
Once again ,just when I was about to set my guitar on fire , I am back in the game ! ThankYou Sean !
@crazed1x9 ай бұрын
Who had Sean breaking out a TooL riff on their bingo card? ❤ Great lesson!
@SlimeyGuitarStrings9 ай бұрын
Sean did Tool as listening homework a year ago for Parabola. I think I had heard Tool before, but that was the first song that ever hit for me by them.
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Gotta let the people know!
@antoniopetroff9799 ай бұрын
Great point about going backwards 😮
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Thanks so much!
@bernicekemp9539 ай бұрын
Thanks Sean ... This has been very helpful. Keep up the great work!!
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! I'll keep em coming :)
@CalvinLimSH-ld5le9 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing how to learn a song quickly by playing a single bass note usually the root note which can represent any complicated chord sounds [ major, minor, dim, etc).
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
You know it!
@jcburger7339 ай бұрын
Thank you for another great lesson. Very helpful!!
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching Joe!
@owenanstey4369 ай бұрын
This is a particularly helpful lesson Sean, thanks so much.
@aaronbennett12663 ай бұрын
Amen brother ❤
@seandaniel233 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@anthonyrioux48354 ай бұрын
I love that your playing a Yamaha Tbh it’s the best guitar a blue collar man like myself can afford and the playability is beyond
@johngriffon21189 ай бұрын
Great double lesson of how to write songs too
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Thanks so much!
@trusarmor49576 ай бұрын
an Amazing lesson
@QBRX9 ай бұрын
Best lesson in a long while.
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Thanks for saying so!
@donaldcahill82559 ай бұрын
Great lesson
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Thanks so much!
@user-ye1ky4hc2u5 ай бұрын
Thanks
@stevepeppers5608 ай бұрын
Got me a new set of lixers day fore yesterday.
@scottkidwell36019 ай бұрын
Something that may help narrow down the key in a song is that a good many popular songs are usually in one of a few keys... A, E, D, G (the people's key), and C for example. Good lesson 🤘 I use a similar method to figure out basslines
@TheHesseJames9 ай бұрын
Unless they are piano driven songs which might be in difficult keys for guitar if you use open string chords. But then, that’s what the capo is for. Just put it somewhere where you can play it in the shapes of one of the easy keys.
@AdamHT9 ай бұрын
I always learn something from your videos, Sean, this time thinking of a minor root as the 6th chord of the relative major key. So obvious when you know, so why have I never thought of that before?? Thanks!
@danscharman42669 ай бұрын
Damn. 🍺🍺🍺 another awesome trick/tip you’ve presented, going up a string to get the 1-4-5 ? I could have kept trying to Learn guitar for the rest of my life without finding out this tip. Thanks again for all you do!! Now I can get 1-3-5 or really any progression with a new thought process/map.. same with just simply finding the single note on the fretboard more easily like G-C-D backwards to B by just going back a fret from the C note on the a string. I’m still processing the 5 to 10 fret and then back down the fretboard. But I’ll get t here,, thanks to you,,, and a little practice on my part 🎼🎼🎼🍺🍺
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for the kind words! Keep rockin!
@josephcasey3229 ай бұрын
Park a sedan/steely Dan in compact/pop space! Gr8 tips mahalo
@fredforseman8516 ай бұрын
What guitar are you playing. I love the sound!
@adsfaedaer9 ай бұрын
whilst this is excellent, what would make it better, would be to take a billie ellish (or whatever) song and break it down using this technique.
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Maybe I can do this on a livestream soon
@FrancisRoy9 ай бұрын
I’d love too
@CaveManCole5 ай бұрын
@@seandaniel23 VOD?
@luisfelix95299 ай бұрын
Nice guitar
@kaushalsuvarna51569 ай бұрын
Where's the guitar you discovered at Martin?
@Donny_A9 ай бұрын
This actually works if you put the time in
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Truth!
@dan_kay9 ай бұрын
I was always very unsuccessful with this super easy two-step method: 1. Find out the key of the song. 2. Then play the rest of the song. Easy, peasy.
@kennethochoa75509 ай бұрын
ha! ha! very entertaining yeah cats are cool 😃 i want to make a slide show for my art, and this video is quick and simple I just have to learn how to import music and art images and how to render 🤔 I'm new to da vinche 😇
@mustofaabudan67849 ай бұрын
Would u reaction the play gitar from Indonesia Alip ba ta With title of the song the last of mohican 🙏🙏
@davidhowe82929 ай бұрын
What do you have against Steely Dan?
@tammywalla72599 ай бұрын
I’m certain he doesn’t have anything against Steely Dan. I just know that Steely Dans chords progressions are pretty complicated and are not applicable to this lesson.
@Playsinvain9 ай бұрын
Heart is willing, the mind is weak
@Playsinvain9 ай бұрын
Get the key and consult the circle is what I’ve been doing to mild success
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Whatever works!
@Playsinvain9 ай бұрын
@@seandaniel23 lol. I wouldn’t go as far to say “works”. Thanks for your service to others, Sean.
@anthonykinrade86429 ай бұрын
I thought you sounded better today, you are playing a Yamaha!😅
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
haha, fair enough
@jamesadams10649 ай бұрын
What if a song is in an alternate tuning. Listen to Eric Taylor. See if you can figure out one of his songs. Good video by the way.
@TheHesseJames9 ай бұрын
Let me take a wild guess here. We watch his channel for instant gratification. Alternate tuning means you have to retune your guitar! We probably couldn’t be bothered with that, right?
@GUIDESPERSPECTIVE9 ай бұрын
I only came here to say that I tried this with Steely Dan Songs and it doesn't work. Oh and I also came to complain because Sean still hasn't answered my question in the comments for the Positive Grid Live demo he did. 😪
@harimathur21919 ай бұрын
Hi Sean, great stuff, but..... doesn't work with Radiohead....😅
@TheHesseJames9 ай бұрын
Oh, it does, you just have to try out all 12 possible chords in major as well as in minor on each chord shape. Well, seriously, you just have to step away from all those boring I + (IV,V,VI) progressions and just be reasonable with your guesses for the next chord, with a bit of practice (having like 10-20 songs under your belt) you can narrow down the possible next chords. If not, then you have to start with the melody and analyze what chords should fit with the melody. And yes, in the beginning this might take quite a while.
@harimathur21919 ай бұрын
😂nah! Ill wait for Sean to spoon feed me the tabs and tutorial😊@@TheHesseJames
@TheHesseJames9 ай бұрын
@@harimathur2191 The big mouth I am, I started figuring out “Amsterdam”, and it took me a whole five minutes to settle between two possible keys (I got that one right), another three minutes to find the second chord, then I got lazy and looked up the rest of the chords. Turns out, it is just a loop of four easy chords, one where you throw in an extension and another loop of the same chords in different order with two more extensions to get that droning sound. Really easy to figure it out but I didn’t want to put the work in. Another learning experience missed.
@TheHesseJames9 ай бұрын
Btw, I strongly recommend this song, it is easy to play (when you bring it down from Eb to D) and really nice to sing to.
@anthonykinrade86429 ай бұрын
Start with nursery rhymes and work up from there....😊
@richr19259 ай бұрын
You have great videos . . . BUT!! . . . moving from thicker strings to thinner strings across the neck is moving UP! Not down. Moving from the nut toward the bridge along the strings is moving UP! Not down. "Up" means moving from lower notes to higher notes. "Down" means moving from higher notes to lower notes. Nothing else. Otherwise, great session.
@TheHesseJames9 ай бұрын
Yeah, I stumbled over that in many YT videos until I understood that the guitar is a much more geographical instrument which is often taught more in terms of physical directions and shapes than in note values. If you are trained in music theory you might scoff at this but for non-trained beginners this is much more helpful.
@richr19259 ай бұрын
@@TheHesseJames No. It is not.
@TheHesseJames9 ай бұрын
@@richr1925 Yes, it is. ;)
@seandaniel239 ай бұрын
Yeah I've been teaching beginners for awhile and I started asking them what makes more sense if they come in with no preconceived notions. And they all say it makes more sense this way.