HOW TO PRACTICE - PART 1 | Mastering Chord Tones for Changes Playing | TOM QUAYLE LESSON

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00:00 - Intro
02:37 - Lesson starts (introducing the concepts)
06:14 - Working on 3rds
17:13 - Working on 5ths
18:32 - Working on 7ths
19:59 - Combining chord tones
24:43 - Defeating the root note bias
31:00 - Outro
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[@tomquayleguitar]

Hey guys! Hope you're all well? Here's the first in a new series of monthly videos I've decided to put together outlining some of the practice methods I've used in my own playing. From month to month they will cover theory, technique, visualisation and improvisational concepts that I like to practice in order to improve my ability as a guitarist. If you enjoy the content and want to support my work, please feel free to check out the exclusive lessons on my website and my app Solo using the links in the video description! Thanks for watching and let me know what you'd like to see in future videos below! Happy practicing, Tom.

[@JuanIgnacioSuarezRosario]

Tom, the page of sølo is offline :(

[@creepymcpeepers]

I’m gonna get this app when I get a new job soon

[@creepymcpeepers]

@@JuanIgnacioSuarezRosario 😕

[@udayanmustafi3963]

🎸

[@d.a.t.4699]

Tom, does solo also have a metronome?...would be cool to have it.

[@joeblakeukeman]

Been playing guitar for almost 70 years now focussed on improvisation, recently changed to all 4ths tuning, using the “intervallic function” naming in place of note names, and now find this brilliant, logical practice method! Thank you much, Tom, for all the help. Of course, I’ve got to go sit down and do it, but I’m finding it fun! Bless you, man! 👏

[@godisgoodallthetimeman4796]

whoa..... 70 YEARS????????

[@BritRael]

Really enjoy all of your lessons and teaching style Tom. Only big negative for me is playing a lesson in non-standard tuning which can be confusing, particularly when most students (guitarists?) play in standard tuning..

[@musicadikto]

This I think is the best Guitar Practice App to master soloing chord tones/chord changes in a very logical and easiest way! Thank you much Tom and the team who made this app possible

[@tonypowell250]

What is that amp?

[@abdelrahmankhaled8239]

I can't believe I get to watch TOM QUAYLE talk about how he practices and all I have to do is have an internet connection and watch a couple of ads

[@tomquayleguitar]

Haha! Glad you like the video - thanks for watching!

[@the.communist]

Whos tom qualy?

[@metalliholic]

@@the.communistwhere in the world is Tom Quayle

[@ledaswan5990]

@@the.communistDon’t know

[@twli]

And in a mere 8 minutes he showed me F is the minor 3rd in D-7!

[@Charlie-bl4jz]

Great vid. Would love to see more of this type of content. Solo has been a great addition to my practice routine!

[@SportThompson]

This is Brilliant, Tom! I’ve got the solo app and am so impressed at what a powerful tool you guys have created. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!

[@mikedwiles]

Thank you Tom. Your lessons are most helpful. Been using the Solo app too. It saves so much time and makes practice much more fluid. I have mapped so much more of the fretboard with these tools. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!

[@Matt94260]

it's really amazing to feel that you're really sharing your "secret" stuff through all your lessons, thanks a lot Tom, you're amazing!

[@goncalodiasmusic]

Absolute masterclass Tom. Your way of teaching is really superior to most other guitarists. Thank you for the lesson!

[@julienn.6794]

Thank you so much Tom! Cristal clear video, it's good for the improvising skills and for the brain generally.. 🤯

[@WailingRaven]

Thanks to your prior and current videos on fretboard visualization through intervallic functions and interval position relative to the root note of the chords, I'm starting to be able to see and recognize intervals of the chords I see others use or the ones I explored on the fretboard, so thank you again, Tom. Will definitely purchase the app to support you and utilize it to become a better musician, hopefully in the near future when I'm capable of purchasing it.

[@GlennMichaelThompson]

This is one of the most efficient approaches to playing arpeggios I've come across. This will help me to play the changes to standards and pretty well any chord progressions I come across. I'm sure the app will benefit many players, however I prefer to use my own brain to work on this. Been playing and teaching for over 40 years and I don't know why I haven’t seen this approach before. Anyhow, I've got it now and it's a great springboard to a whole lot of other variations and extended approaches to playing with chord tones. Thanks so much Tom. I think your new approach to videos about what, how and why to practice different ideas and concepts to playing guitar will be a great success!!! 👍 Best regards from Montréal Québec, Canada ✌😉🎼🎶

[@harrybee3093]

One of the most important lessons I have ever seen.

[@jean-baptistegrenouille1611]

Thank you Tom for sharing your knowledge with us, you are a truly inspiration for me, your app is wonderful, congratulations from Cali Colombia.

[@rodolfoamaralguitar]

Great lesson Tom!

[@miguelangelhdezhdez]

This is solid gold ! Amazing and efficient practice

[@nhdeitmers]

Thank you very much, Tom! This is as good as it gets when it comes to high end instructional stuff on the guitar. This video alone is worth the price of the app, being such a valuable lesson. And this structured approach is right up my alley. Appreciate it! Despite the flood of backing tracks on the web It‘s not easy to find good tracks for chord tone practice. There‘s either too many changes or they‘re too fast. A set of backing tracks organized in the same spirit as the Solo app would be a perfect addition to this product. Ranging from one chord tracks to two and three chord changes in various speeds.

[@nedim_guitar]

This is very helpful! I've got Solo, and it's great, but I'm all over the fretboard, not even in the same octave. Starting with the first finger, second finger, etc is a great tip!

[@Richard-zs1bm]

After watching this video I bought your app. I'm really enjoying it. What would make it even better is the ability to define custom chord progressions, and to be able to randomise the order of chords in the exercises.

[@gillesflorid]

Excellent practice approach!!! Thank you very much.

[@PPLPSMorse]

Seeing you explain this framework has me very excited. Just bought the app and I'm going to do this daily. I always loved melodic practice anyway so this has great potential for me. My biggest issue has always been staying focused and not wandering off into an hour long improvisation. Hopefully I can avoid it now haha.

[@antonioarenillas1558]

Hi, I've just purchased the app, and it's very well put together. You're a master of the instrument.

[@jeremymaynard6874]

I never thought I'd be able to look at a fretboard and name a random fret within a split second until I used Solo. I highly recommend.

[@MrJpong23]

This is very helpful Sir Tom Quayle! Thank You So Much for your Guitar Lessons.

[@taLLdavidproduction]

Awesome series keep it coming

[@tomquayleguitar]

Thanks and will do!

[@colbys1019]

Thanks for this Tom!!

[@ozkancanbay4963]

This kind of vids are really very useful in combination with solo. Thx!

[@meestermaxim]

Great lesson, thanks Tom!

[@bphilipb]

Your app was a game-changer for me. Thank you very much.

[@wavebomb1]

Maaan, I bought you app, and now looking at your routine I have a wider range of things to practice!! I'm anxious to the rest of the series

[@tomquayleguitar]

Thanks!

[@JediCrackSmoke]

Just purchased and downloaded Solo. I appreciate this being something I can own outright and not pay a subscription for, Tom. Thanks.

[@felipefarias7654]

I immediately bought the app after watching the video. I was thinking of interval training and this app is perfect ! Thanks mate.

[@jessesg]

Thx. This video in particular explained how to approach this app from a beginners level.

[@NickyByloo]

Thank you Tom!

[@tomquayleguitar]

My pleasure Nicky!

[@nigil7386]

Amazing lesson, amazing teacher

[@Upytech]

Thank You, that's a really great lesson!

[@ricliwagdoc]

Eureka! This tutorial video is a GEM! Thanks.

[@donindri]

Thanks for posting this. I have had the Solo app for a quite a while, haven’t used it a lot. I am sure I will be using it more often now. I also tuned my 7 string acoustic guitar to 4ths recently. I mainly wanted to visualize the circle of 5ths better on the guitar, was surprised to see so many other advantages. I think maybe the biggest reason more people are not using this tuning is just because of tradition. Thanks again for posting this video.

[@Dj3son]

Thank you for the lessons/exercises

[@TheArtIbarra]

Tom, you’re a baaaad man 🤟🏼 thank you for the inspiration

[@snowyowl1717]

Awesome lesson. Those descending intervals are trickier for sure. Will have to try the app

[@roopemakela2984]

So rewarding to start hitting some of the changes right. Chord tones, knowimg the intervals... Spent so much time, years, noodling scales, without properly being able to use them. This approach feels good and makes so much more sense

[@guitarzone5712]

Amazing dude!

[@jacekszczepanski1104]

YES! WE NEED THIS!

[@burakdeveli2121]

Very helpful lesson, thanks!

[@THIAGUERA5]

Great lesson!!

[@melbookermusic]

Good stuff man. Like always.

[@zenarteast]

Awesome video man!

[@RockCoversMusic]

Great lesson!

[@AmeryAbraham7]

This is very helpful to learn Arpeggios all over the guitar. Obviously, this app really help to identify the locations of the notes on the fretboard in a great way but beyond that, say you know where the notes are how do you begin to actually solo with effectively. I would love to see a practical application of those techniques on a tune i.e. effectively soloing even from a very simplistic viewpoint.

[@soulSaysHi]

Wow this app is powerful! Buying it now!

[@alexlewis8468]

Yay! Now available for android! Good man!

[@hypothermic19]

Brilliant!

[@lpgoog]

Great presentation👍🎶. Important topic 🎸👍

[@a-mb9373]

Beautiful guitar!

[@MetaphysicalMusician]

Great lessons

[@jasonkerr931]

Just downloaded SOLO. Looking forward to it!

[@naoya-ichida]

Thank you for amazing apps!

[@Mike.Mendes]

I’m just a rock guitarist trying to sound better. You’re absolutely amazing!

[@rogerloydmccoy]

This is so awesome. Could you put a playlist together of these teachings?

[@yikelu]

Great lesson, you sold me on solo! I've tried cataloguing myself, and it's a PAIN. Started even writing code for it, but this is better. I might even use this for KB.

[@pandalau2172]

tom 很欣赏你的演奏风格和技巧，无奈在中国不太懂英文很多不太明白的东西只能看着视频照着练习

[@mlem567]

wow brilliant. now must stay focused for the weeks and months of practice.

[@mcsmegaexpres998]

The best teacher on the planet!!

[@Saladzingers]

Thanks Tom, your intervallic approach has been revolutionary as I re-learn guitar. This in conjunction with the “Better Guitar Scale” overview, have really helped liberate me on the fretboard. I’m keen to get into more jazz stuff so can I ask 1) do you have any particular tips for integrating the more outside tones (#9s, b5s etc) or do you just continue the intervallic approach, I.e. know where those tones are as well as the chord tones, and use them precisely when you want to? And 2) do you still think in “shapes” at all, and if so, what shapes do you prefer?

[@thomasfoster4091]

Thanks!

[@gitar123451]

Nice!!

[@apidyahex9213]

you are just a guitar genuis! music theory is my nemesis but you help a bit for sure, I need your knowledge!

[@Igzanda135]

thanks tom

[@tomg2946]

Part2 ? Love to see it 👍

[@locate504]

Hey bro This is very help everyone Thanks made this app :) From korea

[@jagthatindianguitarist]

Can't thank you enough. Bought your course "learn the fretboard" or something to that effect. Using your approach of visualising harmony has changed the way I look at the guitar. It also makes me look less of a noob Infront of others when I can just pick out the 4th or the major 7th at will

[@estodamus]

Glad there's an android version, this video just sold me.

[@adonislajara6955]

Awesome

[@tomquayleguitar]

Thanks!

[@brianmincher716]

Just bought the App, this looks like a potential game changer.

[@cechichan]

One idea Sir Tom, instead of thinking "limitation by finger" which works in the literal playing, it might be easier on the mind to think as "reference point"=root and "left" and "right" from the root, then u can memorize and practice intervals by direction, not finger, left is only one but fingerings are more, for me at least its way more productive like that, Thank u again!! your videos helped me the past 6 months to finally start to improv and make better music

[@DivanProdOfficial]

splendid

[@pedromrls6]

YES!!

[@tomquayleguitar]

Cheers for watching!

[@Burnt_Gerbil]

13:53 That D note descending to the Low F… I play an 8 string, so actually I do have a way to reach it. 😄

[@tamasnagy1963]

Hi Tom! I really like your style of playing. How you think about fretboard visualization is just mind-blowing for me. I was never good with theory and improvisation, just learned the scale forms and as many chords as I can, but I never reached a level where I can remember and use that knowledge. Side note, I tune my guitar in 4th as you. Honestly I were not a fan of fusion and jazz genres, but I started to open my mind after watching your improvisations and thanks for suggesting another artists too. I'd buy your app for practice but I use more operating systems so it's a struggle for me to buy on every device I have (android, iOS, no windows desktop version, not to mention linux :D). It would be great if you build a webpage which give the users the ultimate access on every device. The technology moves towards to web based applications because it's widely accessible. Anyway it's just an opinion and advice from a programmer. Love your videos and waiting for new lessons!

[@Skwid-Lives]

Will this be like when Danielson was painting fences and washing cars. At first he didn’t realize the benefits of the repetition but it was teaching him something far bigger

[@bestboy897]

Incredible lesson just a lil warning this stuff might be a bit confusing to absolute beginners. But if you're an intermediate like me and want to become better this is gold.

[@MikaTarkela]

I've been playing for over 20 years and have some basic understanding of theory but this was way too much for me.

[@Harrysound]

This video is going to change my life

[@leenewsted9484]

Tom, in case you aren’t aware, YOU ROCK, BRO!!!

[@dizzy-dreams]

Hi Tom, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Would it be possible to have you sharing a step further and sharing your point of view on improvisation? Because impro is not only playing the right notes. How do you construct your improvisation? How do you incorporate licks? What is your approach? Again, thanks a lot.

[@ababkin]

Totally agreed. Thanks for describing the exercise in depth (even the permutations) but as I was investing time watching the video, realizing of course it'll take some time and effort to get good at these exercises, the question in my head was "ok, say i get good at these, HOW would i use this skill for playing nice solos?" hoping that the video will answer this question. But, alas, after showing all the permutations of the exercise with the app you are advertising, you just play a nice solo with no explanation how one makes that leap. Don't mean to sound ungrateful - but it felt a bit anti-climatic at the end.

[@cmath8577]

​@@ababkin I don't know anything but perhaps I'll try to explain my take. The leap is where this exercise is applied within a musical context.. vs... the mechanical practice of training when most everything is on a downbeat and starts at the root and progresses in linear way. This seems mechanical and boring and slow but we must walk before we run.The goal is to play with intention. if one is improvising a solo like he does at the end of the lesson, You recognize and say thats nice. What makes it nice? One does not typically play a phrase starting on the 1 of the beat and the root note of the scale like when we do exercises..With much practice,with intention, one can at will, mix and randomize the timing and phrasing and sequence of notes ..It's a practice of 2 very separate disciplines and the art or what makes it musical or not is how the 2 combine by the player(you) 1. The timing...where one starts and ends a phrase within a bar. 2. The choice of notes within the scale or phrase. If you listen to tabla players play a solo within a raga, they change the start position and end positions of their phrases. They go over and around the bar like a conversation. If you want a nice solo, You can play one note but it's the timing and the phrasing that make it "nice" or not. Knowing what's available on the fretboard seems to be what this exercise is about. What to play when comes with practicing with intention

[@jmescoses]

❤️ like this

[@Scarshockable]

That's really awesome. I use Solo everyday, and your method to see the neck is perfect for me. Thanks !! I have one question : when you start with the third for example (let's say Dm7), do you see the note F and start from there or do you see the root (D), then find the third and then find the other intervals ? Sorry for my bad english! Thanks again Tom, it really helps me !

[@orangeblue3531]

He sees everything relative to the root. But what you are saying, i.e. locating chord tones by their relative interval to each other, is also a valid visualization technique. Wayne Krantz uses this.

[@SidSub]

fantastic,Can I define my own custom chord sequence to work through

[@LostMountainRestoration]

Great app and practice method. I bought it, thanks! Wondering if an update could allow note names to be displayed under the chord intervals? UPDATE: Disregard, I saw your explanation on another video. However, I do feel it would be a valuable asset to those of us who don't have chord notes and inversions memorized quite yet. Thanks.

[@Stephenmboone]

Sold!

[@ryanburch3092]

This is one million times better than learning by major scale shapes

[@sebastiangrimm5671]

It would be very convenient if the second note was shown in the app once the right interval was played…😅 great video, thanks so much!

[@johnmeeks9308]

that is a cool program i will get it

[@wallacebarnes2391]

The App is Great! Just Buy it, you wont regret it. Now for adding sound confirmation and a tuner....

[@kcyrowolf]

Brilliant video Tom! Could you tell me what studio desk you have there? I've been trying to find something similar that's solid and durable.

[@rockstarjazzcat]

Hey Tom! Love the app. Wish list item on chord tones... Solo seems to train on 7th chords exclusively? Four voice tonic Maj6 and tonic Min6 chord tones are important to me in my bop practice. I'd love to see them incorporated if they've not been already! Cheers, Daniel, Denver

[@LoudStereoTINYDICK]

Guitar legend/genius/beast

[@YiozicMusic]

This guy is amazing! I'm a classical guitarist and i was very dependant on the sheet music. When i started improvising i got stuck on the pentatonic and the patterns. I am definitely gonna download this app. It's soooo well-structured. By the way, does anyone knows what string gauges he uses? Τhe e-b-g strings are like "Ι'm gonna hit you in the face".

[@juankmarte4046]

Ask him, i think he uses 10s or 11s

[@nedim_guitar]

Also, his guitar is usually tuned in all fourths, to better visualise the fretboard in his fusion playing. EADGcf

[@cbolt4492]

11:10 Ex2