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[@MarkZabel]

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[@petromoderne]

I really appreciate your slow, friendly lessons. You come off like an old friend who wants to show you some cool guitar stuff in the living room. Its nice you don’t shred like so many here. Thanks again!

[@MarkZabel]

Thank you!

[@bertpainter8385]

so so true.

[@Fkku-r6d]

Yep shred is dead but NAMM club on you tube is taking over guys, Beato is the head good ole boy club fkk, Lol.

[@OutsaneInBrain]

I knew about movable diminished chord but the movable augmented was new to me. I love those little insights you pass on to us,

[@BrianMarcus-nz7cs]

Tru same , 👍

[@MarkZabel]

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jobbie06]

One of the best holistic guitar mentors on the tube. Thanks for all you do Mark!!

[@MarkZabel]

Wow, thanks!

[@tomhenninger4153]

Thanks Mark! Learning a lot! Appreciate you helping us out!

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure! Glad to help!

[@jayrocknurse5386]

Thank you so much for you gentle, friendly teaching. Your attitude as well as your skill touches me deeply. Getting me to reply with such thanks isn't too normal for me. I send it from my heart like applause at the end of a song.

[@MarkZabel]

You are so welcome. Thanks so much for your kind comment!

[@lazvt8469]

That Sire with 9O's sound great.

[@MarkZabel]

I'm definitely digging it.

[@BrianMarcus-nz7cs]

Thanks Mark , now I'm trying it on da banner 🦤👍

[@skintslots]

Nice lesson Mark. For those of us who are still finding our feet on the guitar the F# minor using the D minor shape is also available in that same area as the one you showed.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@crashzero6517]

i liked this, though i thought it was going to be about transposing, do you have video on that :)

[@MarkZabel]

I may have done one years ago. There's one coming up shortly though!

[@CD_Character]

When I hear that E aug chord, I expect to have it followed by, "Oh, Darling. Please believe me."

[@MarkZabel]

I hear you, though I usually think, "Ridin' along in my automobile."

[@jdl2180]

That's exactly what I thought of, I love that cord!

[@martin-1965]

@@jdl2180 For sure it is one of the most beautiful and haunting chords - it stands on the edge of a cliff ready to launch into something amazing 😍😍

[@CD_Character]

@@MarkZabel "...with no particular place to go."

[@bertpainter8385]

For me, I hear it as the last chord of an intro before the song is ready to go all out heavy blues with a sultry solo. 😎

[@bertpainter8385]

Mark you are a very sincere teacher in making the guitar simplified for those who really want to learn or for those who already know how to play, but never really went all out 100% and just want to learn more tips. I always click your links even though I don't play much these days due to old hands that don't work as good. I like inversions nowadays, bar chords are too hard on the thumbs. This lesson taught me about how the augmented chord trick works like the diminish chord, which I didn't know. Any other chord tricks that follow that repeating pattern technique?

[@MarkZabel]

Thank you so much. I appreciate the kind words!

[@billlewis8711]

Mark - you forgot to answer his Question at the end of his post!

[@14369164]

@@billlewis8711 Don't think there are anymore bud

[@atlantaguitar9689]

I think it comes down to economy of motion and keeping the chords close and compact. As you point out, moving to other parts of the neck while keeping the chords close will simplify key changes. This also helps when playing with keyboards and horns in which case playing full on bar chords, for example, would be too much.

[@MarkZabel]

Absolutely. And that economy also leads to better voice leading too.

[@M2Texas]

I'm picking up guitar again after a 25 year break and this is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. Liked and subbed. Thank you so much!

[@MarkZabel]

Awesome, thank you!

[@CraigFranklinmusic]

Excellent video for a longtime amateur guitarist like myself.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@joemccarthy641]

Loved it Mark. Thanks. This will definitely help.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks Joe. Glad it was helpful!

[@MrJking1962]

Augmented is a strange sounding chord today, but not yesterday. Great turnaround chord.

[@MarkZabel]

Yes, absolutely. Much more common in early the swing era. Great as a turnaround chord (as it's used here) alternative to a more typical dominant, but also a great opening chord a la Chuck Berry or his influence - T-Bone Walker. T-Bone almost certainly got it from the early swing players who very often used Aug7 chords.

[@thecelt4807]

beautiful chord progressions mate

[@fredfloyd68]

Great instructor......just wish Mark would get his band on stage.Just a treasure trove of musical genious...

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks! I played out last weekend!

[@3GreeneBJ]

Thank you so much. That was really generous of you. Very mature and easily paced.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks so much!

[@andyhinds542]

That was amazing! I was getting ahead of what you were playing by guessing which chord came next and I was right.

[@MarkZabel]

Rock on!

[@paulbillingham6769]

Another great lesson Mark, you always manage to show me something I never thought of, even after years of playing,

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks a ton Paul!

[@Magnetron33]

I'm a singer and usually insist on doing covers in the key written.I think key changes change the feel of the song. Thanks for the lesson Great!

[@MarkZabel]

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@mccalltrader]

What’s better, straining and struggling to hit every note, or changing key and nailing the performance I drop almost every song I cover by at least half a step, never noticed a problem with maintaining the feel

[@MrBoblangan]

Change the key to fit your vocal bro

[@davidtomkins4242]

That’s fine if your vocal range matches that of the singer. What happens when it doesn’t? Male/female registers?

[@Magnetron33]

@@davidtomkins4242 Then I guess key change becomes the only option

[@319marcus319]

Mark keep up the great teaching…. We are all learning. Thank you

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks, will do!

[@7775Kevin]

Thanks for this. A great lesson, especially with the diminished and augmented chords. Much appreciated.

[@MarkZabel]

You bet. Thanks for watching!

[@joeurbanowski321]

GREAT STUFF Mark..! I believe that anything that forces you to stretch the limits of your knowledge during practice is gold..!

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks ... and YES!

[@windhover294]

The guitar keyboard is endlessly fascinating, that augmented trick just blew my mind... I was about to leave a smartarse comment about playing Caug by mistake... so glad I continued watching for the explanation!

[@MarkZabel]

Ha ha! I know what you mean. A good example of being fooled by something most of us learned early - that the bottom note of a chord is the root. Not always so. Even so, the augmented case is an extreme one!

[@marriner5]

Very good lesson. Easy to digest, but enough to challenge me a bit. Thanks!

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!!

[@ferpirata76]

Really interesting and well explained. Thank you very much. Subscribed!

[@MarkZabel]

Awesome, thank you!

[@buddhamus]

Another great lesson. I love this chord progression. Lots of fun stuff to work on. Thank you.

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching!

[@mddelman]

Great stuff, Mark, and one of my favorite chord progressions ever. Is there somewhere in the video where you explain what the "rule of 3" is?

[@MarkZabel]

Thank you! I don't explain it fully here, because it applies very broadly. However, the application here is that you learn the song in 3 places on the fretboard. (Based on E and A-string roots of the first chord). What I call the Rule of 3 applies in many more instances - on the guitar and in life. Basically, the idea is if you know or do something in 3 different ways, you truly know it. Believe it or not, I took this from Enrico Fermi, the great physicist. Oh, one last thing - it has nothing to do with the common superstition that "bad things happen in 3s". I *do not* ascribe to that idea! Ha!

[@mddelman]

@@MarkZabel Thanks for taking the time to reply. If I weren’t already a subscriber I would subscribe now. Keep the good videos coming. Btw, Someday After A While is the same progression, no?

[@MarkZabel]

@@mddelman My pleasure. Yes, "Someday ... " is very similar. A little simpler, but it's another one of those 6/8 slow blues with similar chord changes. Right on! It's another favorite of mine!

[@BrunoUnna]

@@MarkZabel This reminds me of an interview to Jack White, around the same concept. You may want to take a look: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5LXnmdnmbF1rqcsi=163F0kBv66P5TTQ4&t=355

[@ronkresch9228]

great lesson Mark!

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@antav9371]

Thanks for the lesson. Another helpful thing is to label the chords as the One, four, or five chord, etc.

[@MarkZabel]

You're welcome.

[@joyconnor3600]

Thanks Mark. You are great!

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks so much Joy!

[@coycarlson4979]

REALLY GOOD VIDEO LESSON 👍🎸👍 I have been playing for years and can navigate the fretboard with decent muscle memory in my fingers but NO DOUBT THIS LESSON WILL GROW MY SKILLS - PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING 👍🙂🙂✌️✌️✌️🎸🎸

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks so much!

[@brucemillar]

Thank you Mark. Thanks once again for the lesson. I feel elevated! Best wishes from Down Under, Mate. 😉👍

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure Bruce. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@FlightinDarkness-eb7uh]

very cool good teaching i got my Sweden trunks on ready to go lol i wish

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@FlightinDarkness-eb7uh]

@@MarkZabel your welcome let me know if u do progressive metal courses thanks

[@markquiroz3460]

Great lesson Thanks for sharing your knowledge and talent ❤

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure!

[@macc7245]

Great teacher and player! Thanks!!!!

[@MarkZabel]

Thank you!

[@l.thomasestes5396]

Great lesson. Thanks, Mark.

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you liked it!

[@nnapsR]

sure wish i would have had this kind of teaching when my hands actually worked, i struggle to play a simple bare chord after surgeries on both hands, but i love watching and learning ty

[@batphink2655]

Hey Mark thanks for another great video and of course I have to ask what make of Les Paul that is? it looks and sounds fab! I'm a drummer first and serious songwriter and have some awful technique or lack of playing guitar LOL but love it!

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks! It's a Sire Larry Carlton.

[@krisstieghorst7415]

Cool lesson Mark! Fantastic song and great tips!! Cheers 👋🖤🦋🖤

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks Kris!!

[@HowellOsbornesMusic]

Enjoyed very much, Mark!

[@MarkZabel]

Many thanks!

[@IndyRockStar]

excellent lesson. Subscribed! Thank you!

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@Eddyvnhln5150]

Band in a box is what he started with that the chords you saw, that plays along, yes it costs 99$ but it’s worth it, if you play like this fender tone type music works awesome for blues

[@joeurbanowski321]

This is the kinda stuff I LOVE to learn..!! Thanks Mark..!

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@keithgossage90]

Great! Thank you so much!

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching!

[@johnheath4305]

Thanks

[@MarkZabel]

No problem

[@thomask365]

Excellent,thanks. Felt like my wrist wassnapping on the A chord baron the 9th.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@diymakerdan]

Got it! I see what you did. #1 there is a lot of room between chords which will make it harder for the average player to quickly transpose. Inversion #2 makes it relatively easy to transpose up and #3 makes it even simpler to transpose down. Excellent video and teaching, and hey I picked up a new snazzy progression to boot! Cheers!

[@marcepard8049]

Reminds me of Loggins and Messina’s album called So Fine!

[@congamike1]

Thanks Mark!

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure!

[@daniel_chayra]

Another great one by Dr. Z!!!

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you enjoyed it brother!!

[@kenloewit8656]

Great video,of course, but would have liked the last little piece on how that helps with transposing.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks. We'll cover transposing in multiple later videos. It's a more complex thing. This helps tremendously, because (for one reason) the guitar has that pesky nut ... below which you cannot play anything. That's the basics of it, but enough to know that you can't just slide up or down to do it. There's more, but it was already a much longer video than I usually do. KZbin is a fickle beast, but one thing is clear - telling 2 stories never works. Thanks for the comment!

[@embreesmith7613]

Thaks Markie. 🙂

[@MarkZabel]

You bet brother!

[@craigjoly1416]

great layed back teaching style and very usefull theory ...i'm subsribed and look forward to learning more with your videos Mark !! :)

[@MarkZabel]

Awesome, thank you!

[@Dan-zq5wt]

Weird question: why use a diminished or augmented chord at all? How does the songwriter know when to use these chords? Also is there CAGED for all chord forms (minor, Minor 7, major 7, dominant 7 etc)

[@MarkZabel]

Good questions. 1. Diminished & Augmented chords. Songwriters know where and when to use these chords based on examples of where they've been used in the past. For example, diminished chords are often used as "passing chords" - chords played between 2 other more typical chords - to connect them. Augmented chords are often used as opening chords (E.g., "Oh Darling", "No Particular Place to Go".) or because they are very tense they can be used as replacements for the V chord. 2. Is there a CAGED for these forms. Sort of. It's the same CAGED. (Note: Here I'm advocating you do just 3 and you'll quickly improve. CAGED is fine, but in my experience the 5 forms of CAGED are often too much for people. 3 is enough.) In practice, CAGED works exactly the same for majors and minors. I find it easier not to re-learn, say CAGED dominant 7, but rather, if I know a dominant 7 is a major with a flatted 7 added, then I really just start from the majors I know - instead of trying to remember a bunch of extra shapes. Also, if you recall, in our first week of Rock Guitar from the Ground Up, we talked about how dominant 7th chords were THE sound of rock, so it's a good idea to know as many as possible. Don't limit yourself to CAGED shapes only. If you work at it, you'll find dozens - each one a goldmine of licks and sounds that work in rock.

[@Dan-zq5wt]

@@MarkZabel thanks Mark! I better start at the beginning in 7ths. As is probably obvious, Jimmy Page is my favorite all around player/musician (I listen to everyone though) and a HUGE % of his fills and riffs (especially live) seem to incorporate 7ths as triads or partial chords which he slides all over the neck. I really need to master these

[@GOKJOS]

​@@Dan-zq5wtcan you give more examples online and such where I can find where Page uses these methods/elements?

[@ZeekMX]

I don't see you a lot Zabal, Yet you do bring up this interesting subject. When I looked at the thumbnail image I saw 3 note theory. I caution that a talk about double stops is a real good idea to think about before triads. If you do take a look at 2 string theory I recommend Steve Lukather and Steve Stevens. "Lukather skip string double stops" are absolutely necessary. "Rick Beato lesson." To impress Tom Scholz of course. Because if there's no Tom Scholz, I walk out. Buckethead is not blind to this fact.

[@sonicexperiments]

Interesting lessons on tricks! Loving it

[@MarkZabel]

Fantastic!

[@rbtguthrie]

No screaming, no yelling, no hat. Just a one-on-one with a friend who really knows his stuff.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks so much!

[@EZ3ChordCountry.]

NO HAT!!!!!!!!! Bwahaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[@JabrinkTheStink]

No hat im dead 😂

[@JohnShreve-hw8zm]

Some of us bald guys need a hat!

[@Yomommahouse6801]

What’s wrong with Marty? Both of them are great. Did I miss something?

[@galaarendell8264]

HI, thanks for really nice lesson! Can you help me understand why it says we want our fingers to point toward the nut and not the bridge?

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks. As far as the direction of the fingers. It's not a case of wanting the direction. It's not a technique. It's a way of thinking about your hands and the fretboard. 1. If you put your index finger down on a fret (any fret). Your other fingers will lie towards the bridge. It's just a fact. This will tend to make you want to play the fretboard in the area between your index finger and the bridge. 2. If you put your pinky on the same fret as in #1, your remaining fingers now will point towards the nut and you'll tend to play the fretboard area between your pinky and the nut. So, make a practice of this. Let's say you want to play an A-chord. The notes are A, C#, E. Instead of looking up A-chords, find an A on the fretboard ... say on the D-string 7th fret. Now, place your index finger on it. Use your other fingers to find a way to play an A-chord. Now place your index finger on it. Use your other fingers to find a way to play an A-chord. If you do that, you'll know a great deal more about your guitar (and your fingers) than if you looked it up in a book.

[@galaarendell8264]

@@MarkZabel Thank you!! very helpful!

[@michaelmerrullo2043]

I like the progression. Nice lesson

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@mickthebandit]

Thanks. My band plays Peter Greens “Need your love so bad” The chords and feel are very similar 😎

[@MarkZabel]

That's cool! Glad to help.

[@sethbrown8912]

great lesson!

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks Seth!

[@JiMMY-my1ds]

Great video! I know the Fleetwood Mac version of Need your love so bad. When I first heard Find another you by John Mayer I thought he was actually covering the song. They are almost a little too similar 😮. Thanks again!

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks! Yes, I grew up with "Need Your Love So Bad" and love that song. Those types of 6/8 slow blues are very old. Hoagie Carmichael's "Georgia on My Mind" is quite similar too. I think that was written in 1930. For my money, Freddie King did those best!

[@Calpaddy-r9d]

Realy cool techniques, thank you for that .

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you like them!

[@JeffMountainPicker]

Alright; very cool chordiness! bra gitarrövning! Thanks

[@MarkZabel]

tack so mycka

[@sundowner62james69]

Nice lesson.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@miagothful]

Mycket lärorikt,tack för tipsen och välkommen till Sverige så småningom.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks! I had been away far too long. It was good to be back in Stockholm. I'm planning a longer stay in 2026!

[@margles]

Great video! One question - what do you mean at 9:00 when you say our fingers should "generally lie in the direction of the nut, not the bridge"?

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks. From the perspective of how you finger the lowest pitched string in the chord. For example, if you play an open C chord, you probably use your 3rd finger to do it. Your other fingers lie towards the nut. If you play the A-shaped C chord (root on A-string, 3rd fret), you probably use your 1st finger to play the root. The other fingers lie towards the nut.

[@joemaxwell2119]

Mark, you know I think the world of you and love your teaching - you've made me a better guitar player for sure. However, I believe that transposing isn't just moving the chords to a different part of the neck and playing the same progression but actually changing the key; so the A would become something else. This was a valuable lesson for sure but I don't think that you transposed that song. I learned the Nashville numbering system for transposing and do it on the fly often when gigging, especially in church!

[@MarkZabel]

Hi Joe. Thanks for the kind words. I hope I didn't imply that's what I'm doing here in this lesson.l. I said being able to easily transpose is a byproduct of being able to find chords easily anywhere on the neck. You've also got to know your keys, but that alone isn't sufficient. In any event, thanks for keeping me honest.

[@jesperrodkjrpedersen7073]

Love your lessons Mark - thanks for your great work. In the E augmented chord shouldn't it be a B# instead of a C, since an augmented chord is build of major thirds. C would be a diminished fourth up from G#. If you use C then it's a C augmented chord. Sorry for being a nitpicker ;-)

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks. No worries. I would never think of it or teach it that way. I understand such things and learned them that way once upon a time, but it's not my style. I could go on, but I'll leave it there and refer you to 10:02 in this video for a brief statement of why I teach like this. Again, no worries at all. If that's your bag, definitely go for it!

[@AdamAllaun]

Another great lesson

[@MarkZabel]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@MinhNguyen-ef6um]

I hear the fret buzzing. I would like to ask, how much buzz can be accepted and not come out throw the amp?

[@miked3317]

Mark kommer till Sverige!!!🇸🇪😊

[@MarkZabel]

Jag kommer snart!

[@gnsmith4005]

“Please Come Home For Christmas” ☺️☺️☺️ After all these years, I just noticed. 🤯

[@MarkZabel]

Yep, Charles Brown.

[@Patriot1777]

I see you have a Larry Carlton L-7, I do to and it's the Best.😊

[@MarkZabel]

I like how mine sounds, and like the neck carve, but the fretwork leaves much to be desired. Many high spots. It really needs to be leveled. I may end up re-fretting instead. I'm still deciding what to do with it.

[@Bluesmusicno1]

Is that the copper joe bonamassa les paul

[@MarkZabel]

No, it's a Sire L7. Close to the same guitar I think.

[@maeyer]

I'm not very knowledgeable but are those inversions on the dim and Aug chords?

[@MarkZabel]

Some of the ones I showed are inversions, yes. An inversion usually just means you take one of the higher pitched notes and put it in the bass. An example would be for an A major triad. If you play an A chord, you'll see the only notes in the chord are A, C# and E. If the 3 notes are played in the order C#, E, A that's a "First Inversion A Triad". If they're played in the order E, A, C# that's a "Second Inversion".

[@dirtywaterfab1695]

isn't this an early R&B chord pattern? also, isn't this a Little Willie John composition?

[@MarkZabel]

It's similar to a John Mayer song called "I'm Gonna Find Another You" off of his Continuum album. A good number of blues songs have similar progressions. Charles Brown's "Please Come Home for Christmas", Peter Green's "Need Your Love So Bad," and other 6/8 slow blues songs like "Ain't Nobody's Business" come to mind. "Georgia on My Mind" by the great Hoagie Carmichael is another one! It's a great sort of progression to know and understand.

[@winfriedrummel4216]

this is the right way

[@Theintruder100]

Brilliant thanks

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching!

[@jwmiller9267]

...how do you like your Larry Carlton Sire?

[@MarkZabel]

I like it a lot!

[@eoinernesthughes]

I found a few things confusing from the chord progression, which you don't really explain. I figured them out...I think, so I hope this is useful for anyone who wants to fully understand how this progression functions harmonically. On bar 3 you used 2 different D voicings, 1st in CAGED 'E' shape then sliding to the M3 of the D voicing in 'G' shape (slick!), a D#dim7 in two positions (but you do explain this veryy well), then a walking bass to F#m, a D and Dm using the 'A'/'G' shape in which you chromatically flatten the 3rd to get the Dm. Regular blues use only 3 scale degrees, I IV and V and are 12 bars. This is a re-harmonized 8 bar blues. irst 4 bars are I, I7, IV, IV#dim7 (it's common to 'sharpdim' the IV to lead strongly back to I for e.g. Stormy Monday), then a vi,ii,V,I typical jazz harmony prog., to end up in the last 2 bars with a common turnaround I,IV,I,V but here the IV transforms into a iv (also common to minor/flatten the IV degree), and instead of regular V ends with and Vaug which is even more tense/dissonant than a regular V and pulls us back to the I with more strength.

[@antav9371]

Thanks, this is helpful. It's confusing when something is not fully explained or done differently from the visual aids. Not a criticism, I appreciate anyone's time in giving lessons. It's just confusing.

[@azmike3572]

Looking forward to Gibson's coming Mark Zabel model.

[@MarkZabel]

Ha ha! I wish!

[@MrJking1962]

Pat Martino method?

[@MarkZabel]

Interesting. I don't know. I got the inspiration from Enrico Fermi for this. (The physicist - not joking!) I never got into Pat's playing (though I acknowledge it's excellent), and he was certainly a deep thinker on the guitar. I remember when I first heard his recordings with Sonny Stitt. Shocking to me at the time. (I was introduced to Wes and Pat on the same day. Couldn't sleep that night!)

[@benrait6764]

The E augmented chord shown at 6:19 looks like a C augmented to me. Isn't the root on the A string?

[@benrait6764]

Nevermind; I just noticed your explanation a couple minutes later in the vid. I knew about moving a diminished 7 but not an augmented chord.

[@bluesdriver6354]

What brand is your guitar? Sounds great!

[@MarkZabel]

It's a Sire Larry Carlton. I really like it!

[@bluesdriver6354]

@@MarkZabel Wow. Thanks. I need to look into those.

[@ชาติชายชล]

Nice​ sound

[@MarkZabel]

Thank you.

[@emkay9508]

Love you, bud

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks!

[@jasonstevens28]

I learned something but what was the rule of three? I get you can play chords all over but I’ve missed the rule?

[@MarkZabel]

There are MANY applications of the Rule of 3 for guitar. The one here is ... learn a song in 3 distinct areas of the fretboard. (Note that many systems emphasize doing much more. My contention is that 3 is enough.)

[@charleslanphier8094]

Even explained this patiently music theory goes right over my head. Wasn't the song already in A ?

[@MarkZabel]

There's not really theory here. Learn a song in 3 distinct positions. That's it. Don't do 5. Don't do just one. Don't worry about "but that's not the exact way so-and-so played it." Three is enough. If you do this for, say, 10 songs, you'll really start to know the instrument.

[@34rn357]

Could you please state the “rule of three”? I didn’t hear it or see it in the video. What is it?

[@MarkZabel]

When one does a thing (anything) in 3 fundamentally different ways, one truly knows how to do that thing.

[@34rn357]

@@MarkZabelThanks very much for answering! Now I see it.

[@louisframe2140]

Thank Mark

[@MarkZabel]

My pleasure.

[@opamukcu]

i think that aug chord is Caug/E ( C E G# )

[@gibsoneb3]

The Beatles, in their first Ed Sullivan appearance, changed guitar tuning from E standard to D - so much for changing the feel.

[@user-alpre1984]

i used to bartend in a jazz club, how do u know how to play jazz, i dont its stuck in my head

[@matthewcozon4686]

So the three tricks are: 1. Start with a chord based on the low E 2. Start with a chord based on the A 3. Start again on the A but higher up? I don't really understand the third.

[@MarkZabel]

It's not 3 tricks. There's no trick here. It's just an example of the "rule of 3", which is all about doing things in 3 different ways/places/flavors. Here we're learning a song in 3 places on the guitar in order to build mastery. 3 is enough. Note that many guitar systems teach 5 or 7 elements (Example: CAGED). I got it from the physicist Enrico Fermi. It doesn't just apply to guitar.

[@Ktunedup]

great lesson Mark but I noticed Mayer's song bears a huge resemblance to Please Come Home for Christmas by the Eagles. Knowing Don Henley to be the copyright dog he is I'm surprised he didn't sue Mayer.

[@MarkZabel]

Thanks. Please Come Home for Christmas isn't Henley's song. Charles Brown wrote it in the 1950s. His version is much better too!

[@Ktunedup]

@@MarkZabel yes, thanks for letting me know. Ha, no wonder Henley didn't sue

[@barrygouthro6315]

Beautiful

[@MarkZabel]

Thank you