Upgrade Your Chord Shapes In 5 Different Keys

[@neiljones2264]

Awesome video, as a rhythm guitar player, this has opened up a whole new world, instantly subscribed after this, thank you...

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Thanks so much Neil, and welcome! For your kind words, consider your comment pinned :)

[@micha0634]

It's great to have something like this to work on. I knew it more or less allready but to take it as a constant way and method, which means to learn and practice all the shapes is great. It makes the available repertoire bigger and this means joy!

[@keithdonohue4631]

In a world of KZbin guitar videos, this one is an absolute wonder. Thanks so much.

[@Aspen_Chap]

thanks so much james this is gonna be great for the old improvisation

[@seanoconnor2531]

i have spent the last week working through three of your lessons , i am inspired and far more interesting as a guitar player, thanks James

[@cherrysunburst828]

Great vid! One of my favorite songs, Vapour Trail by Ride, uses these too. The entire song is based around a chord progression of 9x9900, 799800, x09900 and 079900 and it sounds so good

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Yeah those E suspension chords sound rich

[@lobo_paul]

I would say biblical from 15:00. Magical for the rest of the video. Thx for this amazing tips James!

[@fullbeans983]

This actually answers a question I have long had about my own playing. Thankyou for helping me understand why I sound so inconsistent.

[@grahamburgess1381]

Great video james.

[@paule314]

Just ace thanks James

[@frannyp46]

Great lesson. One where you cut corners and get better results.

[@MaquiladoraIII]

Another good'un, James. I'm gonna start actively looking for these suspension chords now. Off the top of me head, there's a beautiful G sequence in "Anna Begins" and a C transition in one of my favourite songs of the 90s, "If it Makes You Happy'".

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Nice! Loads and loads more to discover

[@MaquiladoraIII]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Can't beat a bit of "Cast no Shadow", either.

[@richfromtheligerz4922]

Brilliant video James 💛

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Thanks Rich! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@ericcoleman288]

I hear ya on the tabs, there are some that just don't even sound close, sometimes you gotta root through a lot a crap to get the right one, cheers mate

[@tornaclconor5149]

Love the new backdrop man

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

cheers!

[@cassioscopelduraczenski3932]

Another great lesson, James! Thanks! You are an amazing music content creator! It's really nice to have a channel to watch with videos that mix good musical taste with brilliant ideas and professional knownledge!

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Thanks so much, very kind of you to say 👍👍

[@martinmurphy6833]

This is fabulous - thank you!

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Glad it was helpful!

[@michaelholmes9874]

Brilliant👍

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Thanks for that Michael 👍👍

[@hasanmir]

Using your thumb to fret that F. Who do you think you are? Jimi Hendrix?!!! On the real though, this is the first time i've come across the concept of "Suspensions" and I am so inspired by the idea that I cannot wait to pick up my guitar and try it with chords further up the neck.

[@markpage6111]

Very interesting James, thanks 👍🏼

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Cheers Mark, you're very welcome

[@XRL7official]

Another great vid!

[@JormaX]

Noel is funny cos he has kept saying every now and then that he just knows the basic chords and that's all you need etc. although Oasis songs often contains all these add/sus/m7 etc. chords which are not that basic + he has actually used more alternative chords especially on his later songs (SOTSOG and some of his solo songs). Maybe he wants to appeal more 'rock'n'roll by not ''knowing'', or maybe he points to the fact that he doesn't know the names of all these chords, which is actually quite common among some guitar players. You just keep playing what sounds good and cool and that's enough:)

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Yeah he constantly lies in interviews to add to his ‘legend’ hahaha Most of what he says in interviews has to be taken with a pound of salt

[@brianberinglarsen]

Loving these videos!!!👍

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Cheers Brian!

[@thomkane6787]

Love you videos mate keep it up

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Cheers Thom, more to come

[@morgan7771]

wow, the suspension chords in the key of D were something I've never though of, cheers

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

No worries :) happy jamming

[@Andrea-jz2tp]

The fun fact about sus chord is that Noel Gallagher made a carrier behind that 😂

[@markpage6111]

If it sounds better, why not 🤷🏼‍♂️ 😂

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Hahahaha yeah

[@josephodonnell8649]

Genius

[@delhurworth6001]

Ya a top man James🎸

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Cheers Del 👍👍🎸🎸

[@ShrapnelTwo]

Great video ! Since you mentioned Jeff buckley, it'd be awesome to see a video on him

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

I absolutely love Jeffs stuff. And, I would love to do a vid on him... But I'm not sure if that will be an imminent thing or a one-day-future thing, because there's just so much stuff out there covering the great American stuff of the 90s and really not enough on the British stuff. But I will definitely file the idea in the long term ideas folder....

[@ShrapnelTwo]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar cool that sounds great. He's one of my favourites and quite underrated as a guitarist. I rarely ever see people mention him in that capacity.

[@Beans360]

I bought an Oasis tab/chord book and it was absolutely shocking. Especially when it came to wonderwall. It was probably the same book.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Yeah it probably was. Very very sloppily transcribed - and annoyingly, clearly sold an insane amount too.

[@Beans360]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar the transcriber probably got paid like a few hundred per song aswell. I know of someone who transribes songs for a magazine who gets paid a few hundred per song.

[@Beans360]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar and he probably spend like half an hour transcribing it.

[@simontunnicliffe2107]

Yeah a lot of chord books are wrong. I used to have a big thick Beatles chord book 20 years ago and some were spot on and others weren't. It also would have the wrong keys as well. Used to say I Am the Walrus was 2 semitones below so the main chords after the intro started on G but it's definitely an A and Noel starts on an A although plays it slightly different afterwards.

[@S3aChange]

How do bands like Eels and Spiritualized get away with doing big basic open chords and always sound so good, but when I do it it sounds like "Whoa, check out fancy pants, he just learned a C."

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

haha there’s definitely an art to it lol

[@krissymarklewis1793]

Good vid. You know the weird thing? I never learned to play guitar....I just woke up one day and could instantly play it ha.

[@sandrabecht4489]

Vielen Dank👍🇩🇪

[@utkarsh_Shrivastava]

Nice video, I hope you come up with a how to sound like noel gallagher when he plays live.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Thanks. The Noel live sound is difficult because we don't get it raw, we only ever hear a mixed version... and also he changes guitars, amps, fx and rig from gig to gig. If you want the early Noel sound, your best bet is always going to be guitar + amp + loud however hahaha

[@utkarsh_Shrivastava]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar well you can do it for his most famous guitar performances like Champagne supernova 2008 Wembley,Gas panic 2000 Wembley,Falling down from standing on the edge of noise,Wonderwall rock in rio 2000 etc. Plz try to do it🙂

[@OllieTattersall]

I remember the Morning Glory tab book being absolutely awful, even missing solo passages and fills. They should have re-notated it as part of the 25th anniversary release of Morning Glory, I'm sure there'd still be a big call for it.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

yeah I agree

[@salehurst]

Did Noel know musically what he was doing at the time, or was it just the sound of the chords ?

[@doctornov7]

He knew what he was doing, but didn't understand what he was doing.

[@mackin26]

It was the sound of the chords, he’s not a technical guitarist and doesn’t do music theory. Just a jammy clever bastard.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Hard to tell with Noel as he makes stuff up so much in interviews and pretends to be dumber than he is... I don't think he knew the names or the theory, but I think he had a 'feel' for the theory which informed his writing if you know what I mean. I don't think he could have clearly articulated it, but I think his brain did have the framework of the musical structures he worked within

[@simontunnicliffe2107]

@@doctornov7 I was gonna ask a similar question. It can't have all been by ear can it? It's one thing knowing that taking your pinky finger off an A (making it a sus) sounds good but knowing what other obscure chords will work can't just all be by ear can it or did he just nick'em from somewhere else. I woulda thought without some theory knowledge when a bass player tried to put bass to it, it might not work in the context of key / scale etc?

[@doctornov7]

@@simontunnicliffe2107 I can't speak for Noel, but as somewhat of a magpie songwriter myself (to use Weller's description of Noel), I've learned loads of the chords to my favourite songs over the years and, as a result, have learned more and more about progressions etc. and what notes/chords go together over time. You just pick stuff up, especially the weirder changes like in some Beatles songs or jazz stuff. I've "nicked" loads of chord sequences and modified them. It's just something I have a knack for it seems (my theory is quite basic, it does help with songwriting but only as a little ace up the sleeve so to speak). Funny watching this video actually, I asked myself if any of my songs have suspension chords in them, and loads do. I learnt those originally from a musician in a band I was briefly in last year. I learn different things from different places and that combined with just playing around and trying stuff, it all coalesces to produce the songs I write. I imagine it was the same for Noel. This is just speculation though.

[@tabeecorr6611]

At least after those burps you drank water and no from a can of Super Tennant's or Special Brew haha.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

hahahaha yep just water... no idea where all that came from

[@tabeecorr6611]

Your probably missing the once Happy Hour at your local haunts haha.

[@mrDamory22]

Pete Townshend is the master of Sus chords!

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Ha true

[@arfahlaade6463]

Somewhere in this video I heard "Photograph".. :)

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Good ear! E suspension chords on the A string

[@arfahlaade6463]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar I'm talking about Nickelback's Photograph that use ALL 'suspension' chords

[@frannyp46]

Are lad. Photograph by Def Leppard has quite a bit of sus in it. Sus chords and memories seem to work well together.

[@joaquinvismara]

Nerd fact: Noel G. plays the C suspension chords in Don't Go Away throughout the whole song.

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

nice

[@joaquinvismara]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar My english can get a little clumsy sometimes. This illustrates well what I was trying to explain: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHqTimSrja9kfaM

[@SirKeirStarmtrooper]

C suspension sounds like don’t go away am I right

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Yes - sort of! The lead guitar plays those top two notes while the rhythm guitar strums ordinary chords. So if you were going to play Dont Go Away on one guitar, C suspension chords would give you the sound you need. Good ear!

[@SirKeirStarmtrooper]

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar James , what do you think about joy division

[@davecook9770]

I love my pinkie use it as much as possible even when not needed probably cos I’m late 40s

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Hahahahaha good thing to do! Get that 4th finger fretting notes as effectively as the index!

[@davecook9770]

I really just copying Noals little cheats from Johnny Marr but his song writing is beyond genius

[@ceebee491]

sus chords were all over 'whats the story '

[@rainboat3842]

Bchord is wrong against F#m key.Bminor chord is collect.

[@johnlionmusic]

sus chords can take boring chords progression to a next level!

[@JamesHargreavesGuitar]

Yep