TOP 5 Chord Progressions according to Mark Lettieri

[@BrazenNL]

This would be great to see as a series: Artists sharing their favorite chord progressions.

[@mikeryder9982]

Man, Mark's playing is so tight. He's got the rhythm to match his technical chops.

[@droidfan]

It's super easy. Barely an inconvenience.

[@frankgreco]

All the really good players have a sense of groove. This was an excellent vid.

[@zugrath16]

1. Steely Dan - Josie 0:00 2. Prince - Purple Rain 2:51 3. Stevie Wonder - Living for the City 6:13 4. Toni Toni Tone - Lay your Head on my Pillow 9:42 5. Herbie Hancock - Butterfly 12:00

[@sushigimme]

I love how down-to-earth and likeable Mark is. He's crazy talented, but not an ounce of douchiness can be felt. He makes teaching sound interesting without sounding pompous.

[@DanielSeriffMusic]

He's the most genuine dude.

[@hahabass]

So well said. And so true... I hope. 😂

[@schmty8947]

was lucky enough to catch one of his last live gigs right before the lockdowns, my dad and I got to the venue early and he was at the bar hanging with his bandmates, he ended up chatting with us for about an hour couldn't have been a nicer dude! Huge inspiration for me was an awesome moment

[@AndrewSmith-yk2mx]

@@hahabass I met him and chatted at the Tacoma Guitar Festival recently and he truly is just the nicest, most genuine guy.

[@dlein93]

Between this and that top 5 riffs vid he did, he's played Prince, Band of Gypsys, Stevie, Family Stone, Steely Dan, Raphael Saadiq, and Herbie. No wonder he's become one of my favorite guitarists out now--the man raided my record collection! Great work as always! Immigrance and the Baritone Sessions have been in steady rotation since they dropped :)

[@simonkempnerguitar]

dude is a genius and one of the tastiest guitarists out there!

[@DroneCorpse]

THIS DUDE IS THE REAL DEAL

[@terrymiller111]

I found out about him from Snarky Puppy. The dude should be a household name.

[@dotpk1382]

One of the greatest guitarists of all time, talking about some of the greatest songs and songwriters of all time...epic.

[@DJVIESTA1]

Mark Lettieri is so likeable, it's becoming frustrating that i'll never know him personally. I need him as a friend lol

[@thorndog100]

I smiled the whole time throughout this video. Marks rhythm is just perfect. And amazing. He makes me smile.

[@tootiegrigio713]

Mark is always welcome into the "influence room" in my head. Thank you for sharing!

[@jordandupont7430]

This guy is one of my favorite players and just overall great guy. Enjoyed this video

[@pneh]

I think Mark will be remembered as an influence of a lot of modern players. Have we have turned a corner, post djent where players are gravitating towards playing with more class and musicality instead of technical brutality. Progressions have always been more intriguing than shred. This needs to be a series TC. Make it happen!

[@Yugal-Limbu]

So much talent and so down to earth. Man, It's sad how the majority of the world will never understand the talent this man has.

[@dlswint]

Love the correction...but your chord choices still sound great, either way.

[@alexandereisen3486]

I kinda like the first one better

[@kegerjupit1448]

Love seein' a bass in the background!

[@JakeBisognin]

Lay Your Head on My Pillow is such a great tune, so many cool guitar parts in there too!

[@jahking1969]

Be careful when you play the wrong chords because some of these awful guitar players that are watching will think they have it right although I love how you came back and corrected yourself you have some great knowledge I enjoy watching you keep up the good work

[@arnulfoparra9498]

Awesome THANKS Mark !

[@fabiocecchelli9662]

Omg Mark! I remember i was 16 years old when i’ve heard, for the first time, Josie from the album Aja by the Dan....but it was in 1982😂😂😂😂😂and you know...no Computers, no internet, no KZbin. We have to go to the Music Store and grab the chords from the book of the LP....we cannot afford 😂😂😂

[@alanhowell3646]

Fantastic and so interesting

[@HerculesXIV]

I’m a beginner and am stumbling onto neo soul etc and all of the songs he’s played are now on my to learn list. I hadn’t heard of him either so into the rabbit hole I go! What a player and nice guy. I’d pay for lessons from him any day of the week.

[@livemusicshots]

Such a precise and dynamic yet delicate playing... I love this guitarist. Was a bit disappointed that he wasn't with Snarky Puppy in Vienne, France !

[@VincentBakker1964]

Ah, first! Mark, love your playing and attitude! Picked some stuff up from you as well!

[@JDGreen916]

Mark - coming back to record a drop-in to correct the cords: Super classy move! TC - There's a "y" in the first "Tony".

[@dustinflock1972]

This is tight stuff. My thoughts, we should all be striving to be better rhythm players. All of these ideas are worth the time to learn.

[@gretchenmenn]

Brilliant!

[@thaabstrakt]

This is wonderful

[@SummitGuitarSchool]

this guy is a class act! nice video

[@nr197]

Can I just say: His sound! Wow.

[@benjaminkenobi21]

As if I wasn't sold before then.... I was 100% sold when you started ripping "Butterfly"

[@louisaccardi6808]

I'm glad Mark showed us the other way of playing the Prince song/chords. Both ways sound great. However, it is important to see that you can play these chords in different positions and get a slightly different feel. So, it turned out well anyhow.

[@nyxaquar3474]

Awesome!

[@MsOZ79]

Brilliant brilliant well accomplished musician

[@kylekarich]

I hear Josie, I hit like.

[@IStruggleWithGuitar]

Sick lesson good man! You've done the legendary North Texas music dept proud. Thanks for sharing and keep on keeping on. Snarky Puppy in the... !

[@mjlettieri]

Thanks! Didn't go to UNT though. Was at TCU :)

[@IStruggleWithGuitar]

@@mjlettieri Oh Doozy. I stepped into it. My boys in Ft Worth are going to CRUSH me for this big booboo. Either way, great stuff you're sharing and Keep on Keeping on man!

[@IStruggleWithGuitar]

@@mjlettieri Oh Doozy. I stepped into it. My boys in Ft Worth are going to CRUSH me for this big booboo. Either way, great stuff you're sharing and Keep on Keeping on man!

[@IStruggleWithGuitar]

@@mjlettieri Oh Doozy. I stepped into it. My boys in Ft Worth are going to CRUSH me for this big booboo. Either way, great stuff you're sharing and Keep on Keeping on man!

[@robvandevelde5141]

Great stuff BTW your gig was awesome in Rotterdam

[@meadish]

Mark, you are a genius.

[@nyxaquar3474]

Such a skillful player. And appears such as a genial person.

[@albertortiz1338]

Awesome.

[@Alemski]

It makes me stop playing guitar.. this is realy so gooddd. I saw him in Rom with S-narky. And people pay 100 Euro for other Pop Stars. Ed, John or others.. !!!!! Great Dude and Great musician.

[@nathansturgess92]

I genuinely don’t think I could disagree with Mark on anything related to music.

[@redbrown7355]

21 thumbs down? Really!!? How could that be possible? The chords and chord progressions are beautiful!! I guess it's true...you can't please everybody; but that's okay though. Great video, and awesome progressions. I didn't check it your information section but it would be great to get these chords in Tab if possible, because I couldn't quite figure out what you were doing exactly, just from watching. And every artist that you covered, just happened to be some of my all time favorite artist of all time. So I would really love to know how to make these chords exactly like you did because I think you did an excellent job!!

[@Erdnase23]

As far as I’m aware, Wendy voiced the chords.

[@adsensedd]

Blue in Green is the best progression I have heard.

[@FunkadelicPancho]

The genius of Bill Evans

[@troytolbert2005]

Mark, you're slowly becoming a Yoda. Hans Solo no mo. Lol!

[@kevinballard1004]

real cool nice voicings

[@cafearga]

It would be interesting to do a top five most used Chord Progressions and show just how many different styles of music use the exact same chord progressions. From the very beginnings of music to classical, to jazz or Nu-metal. How does what we love fit into what everyone else is doing with he same material. Gives a different kind of spin on conservatism and tradition v progression and freshness and how they all mingle together even though they seem worlds apart.

[@fiddleandfart]

Yes, common progressions played in different ways - a potentially very interesting route to explore!

[@jacobk4n3]

Innervisions is the best dang album

[@jeffpettit1]

Jake Stone yup... but he’s got 4 other absolute masterpieces as well. 🔥S’Wonder🔥

[@diegorhoenisch62]

I strongly suspect that Wendy Melvoin came up with the guitar voicings in Purple Rain. Cheers, Alan Tomlinson

[@ToddPritch]

Yeah maaaan

[@zacharyariasmusic]

Living for the city!!! Yes. I still need to sample that bridge...

[@marksc1929]

Really good stuff .. dude is nice with finger dexterity from hell ... Cheers

[@jorgetenamusic]

Mark rules!!!!

[@noelhoekstra6852]

I would sell my guitar for paying guitar lessons from this legend. Oh wait what...

[@kimhansen6384]

I hope you have more than one guitar :-)

[@wesleywallace101]

This is me!

[@FunkadelicPancho]

Butterfly has one of the coolest basslines also

[@BigSh00tsie]

Listening to ML talk about playing guitar makes me feel really musically stupid haha.

[@AI3JeWelz]

Oh I feel you

[@makkietakkie]

You'll get there too if you really want to (:

[@meadish]

It sounds much more difficult than it is. Naming chords is based on a few very simple principles. You can learn the system in a day and internalize it in a week or two. To make it truly useful, you should learn to name every note in every location on the neck. That takes longer, but if you do 5 minutes a day, after a month or two, you have the foundation. Justin Guitar's theory course is a good way of learning it. My ramblings below are probably less useful, but here goes: Start with 'triads' (chords consisting of three tones). They are based off a scale, and you build them by starting on one note in the scale, skipping the next scale note, playing the next one, skipping the next scale note after that, and then playing the next one. If you use a major scale (take C, because it tends to be the 'mother' of scales, and it has these notes: C D E F G A B [and then back to C again]) as the starting point, starting on the C note, you skip the D, play the E, skip the F and play the G. So the notes are C E G, and that is a C major triad. If you start on any other note of the scale and use the same "PLAY, skip, PLAY, skip, PLAY" method, you get all the triad chords in the key of C. On the guitar, if you play every string, there are more than just three notes. So when you play an open position C chord (the first C chord most of us learn) it means some chord tones are repeated, but all of the notes you play in that C major chord are C, E and G notes. Now, if you use the same play, skip, play method and add a 4th note from the scale, you get 7 chords (major 7 chords, minor 7 chords, dominant 7 chords). And if you continue to add a 5th note, you get 9 chords. Add a 6th note, you get 11 chords, and finally 13 chords. (See how the naming skips a number - 7, 9, 11, 13 - but no 8, 10, 12 or 14.) Then you can make one note in the chord *flat* (lower it one step/fret) or *sharp* (raise it one step/fret).

[@BigSh00tsie]

I think it’s just knowing it so offhand. I know the theory and the concepts but I don’t know how to apply it so quickly. I king of want to just break out my chord book and play cool chords

[@alexfvcruz]

@@BigSh00tsie it's ok you have to play a lot to be able to think in the spot, the more you play the more confident you are about what you play next

[@benpeterson4998]

Dust by Chon has to be one of my favourite progressions

[@ejasugas9495]

A snarky puppy quality

[@quintstarkie4838]

Hi Mark, what are the pick ups you are using?

[@starfleet1126]

Dude you're chord choice is better than Princes on purple rain. I'm just saying. Dig it Dude!

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

Lovely chords on that intro. Jazz has always eluded me tho. Some tab would be nice :)

[@salcasabianca]

Check out Ted Greene chord chemistry.

[@nikolajhansen15]

How do you like that Hansen guitar, Mark? Im having one built by Henning Hansen this summer :)

[@jakollee]

Great video! But are you sure about the last chord in the Josie intro? I think that chord should have an F in it, I try to play a Csus4 over an A Flat bass, but it's a pain to play (especially after the preceding chord), and I'd be happy to substitute your chord! Anyway, love your playing!

[@claudiusjelinek6063]

my guess is that the piano plays (high to low) g-F-c-ab while larry carltons chord is g-D-c-ab.... thanks for the inspiring video

[@tomaszjaworski4676]

Nice :) But.....What you think about Walk between the raindrops of Donald Fagen ?

[@wolfgangfahr5419]

perfect session for advanced players like me. Fruitful.

[@federicogatto2635]

1:28 That‘s the Jeff Beck’s ‘Cause we‘ve ended as lovers’ signature chord! 😜 or at least one of them..😵

[@TedSchoenling]

Put Mark Lettieri in a room with Paul Gilbert and I'm thinking between the two of them you can hear 90%+ of all tunes written

[@revenant235]

What a guy.

[@GerryBlue]

What Chorus is he using?

[@ahall3823]

Love the sound! What is the rig?

[@tcelectronic]

bit.ly/marklboard

[@ramo1222]

I was playing along and I have a question about Lay Your Head on my Pillow: what is the voicing of the first chord (Bb13sus) in the bridge? I can't seem to quite get it

[@joseluisfernandez3453]

My fingers hurt as hell after trying all of these chords But this pain sounds beautiful in my guitar

[@TZD11111]

Had to break out THE DAN

[@chhau123]

I wonder how many more chords can he pull out

[@mattgilbert7347]

Umm...no, I can't play those (except for Purple Rain, on a good day - and it's not a flanger it's either a Boss CE-2 or Dimension-C)). My fingers/hands don't work like that. Arthritis and I never learned Jazz shapes during my formative years. Back to my alternate tunings and open string drone chords...

[@pedroharunari5237]

Listen to Toninho Horta and he will fill out the whole list

[@kopfstandsnoopy]

whats that blue guitar??

[@KunchangLeeMusic]

👌🏿

[@randyducasse9075]

What song is played at 5:35

[@lennertjansen4299]

Message In A Bottle by The Police

[@dalefrary]

Anyone know what model this axe is? Thanks

[@tcelectronic]

It's a Hansen! hansen-guitars.com/instruments/

[@vaibhavjoshi9141]

Ted Greene chords

[@chrisegg7936]

probably not a good sign that after watching this a couple times I still don't have a clue how to play any of these songs

[@chrisdaviesguitar]

Tab would be nice

[@jackfanciulli903]

2:17

[@everythingisopen]

0:30 isn't that a .... Fmajor7add9/c :) Though with the g note just one step above the root Mark calls it a F2 Frets, low to high: x 3 3 0 1 0 same, in chord tones: x 5 1 9 5 7

[@leonidastheking7830]

deacon Blues its more brilliant

[@ryanlayton3868]

His tone is ridiculous.

[@beaujpatt]

Came for the progressions, stayed to feel emasculated by how little i understand music theory. “D over G”, my dude wtf is that 🙃

[@mattgilbert7347]

I hate Steely Dan. Love Prince.

[@alanduncan1980]

What the fuck is a chord?

[@sillysausage4549]

Purple Rain - overrated. Prince - massively overrated. Just my opinion of course. I know we are supposed to worship him, but I never saw the appeal.

[@Carefaceeeee]

I hate jazz ,its the art of ugly