This Circle of 5ths Trick Blew My Mind

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[twistedlines]

Takamine g series new around 450 and this guitar has great electronics stays in tune sound is bright and very easy comfortable. Hope this helps. I love how you teach with your own style. I hope this move brings the best.

[jrholmes]

Thanks Sean. Love your channel! I’m a songwriter and I literally noodle around to find my sound and I’m having some success, but your insights and humor inspire me. Thanks again for having useful content!

[swaggercat]

Glad to hear your finally coming around to join us outlaws

[boomerdell]

Another acoustic guitar maker to consider in that price range is the oft-overlooked Canadian guitar company, Seagull (a brand of the Godin — pronounced go-DAN — guitar company based near Montreal). I have a Seagull that I bought new about 5 years ago and I love it. I think it was maybe US$400 or so.

[joekagerer]

Key signatures and the Circle of Fifths always just seemed like a memorization task to me. Last week I realized that my Violin and mandolin are tuned in 5ths (well I knew that) but the strings being GDAE are the exact start of the circle, string one G has one sharp, string two D has two, A three and E four such an easy way for me to remember. Doesn't quite work that well on the guitar but it was helpful to me. I've just started sitting in on bluegrass Jams with these instruments and most songs are 1, 4 & 5 chords thinking about intervals much more.

[officialWWM]

The circle of fifths is so useful, I had it tattooed on my right forearm. It’s like a permanent cheat sheet 😂

[eastcoastwilly]

Going in reverse in the Co5ths you get Circle of 4ths.

Beadgcf is how the guitar notes are laid out on the guitar (save the B string). You can find this pattern all over the fretboard. Use top 2 strings and work down the board. It's an easy way to learn the fretboard notes. Look down the strings on the B note and look at the pattern as it's laid out this direction way as well.

[lynelleandrob]

I got the Martin DX1E Kao last year for under $500 at a local shop, and was lucky to get it. It's the nicest acoustic guitar I've ever owned (I also have a 20+ year old Yamaha that I keep at work to plink around on) and a real joy to play. It's a laminate, so it's a breeze to keep clean, and it sounds so good! Highly recommend!

[TheWooTubes]

Wow, thank you! I had to write out what you were saying, to be able to take it in. Have you noticed that if you write out the Cof5 from C, (in a circle?): C G D A E C, C Major Pentatonic is alternate notes. Obviously Am is similar. I'll be sweeping up fragments of my mind for days.

[heinoherrlich]

Thanks a lot for this video. Very useful. When I found out that our standard guitar tuning is actually a Em or G pentatonic I was really shocked that I played guitar for years and never realized it. Same here. Thanks!

[MusiCatsKing]

Key signatures and the circle of fifths is most useful when it comes to transposing. However instead a circle think of it more as a line of integers from -6 to +6 with 0 in the middle.
Gb=-6 Db=-5 Ab=-4 Eb=-3 Bb=-2 F=-1 C=0 G=1 D=2 A=3 E=4 B=5 F#=6.
When transposing to a different key however much you add/subtract to get there, you do the exact same to every chord.
E.g. A song is in key of F and i want transpose it to D. It has the following chords F, Bb, Dm, C.
What do you do to -1 to get 2? We add 3. So we add 3 to every chord and we get the same chord progression in the new key.
-1+3=2,
-2+3=1,
-1+3=2 or 2m+3(m)=5m,
0+3=3;
Therefore the transposed chord progression in the key of D is D, G, Bm, A. After decades of doing this, i can do all these calculations on the fly. It's all just basic math really.

[jcburger]

Learned more about circle of fifths from you. Thanks. Also loved the Salty Blues Comment and response!

[johnhart]

wow that circle of 5s opened me up to finding chords on the fret board. huge tip thank you

[michaeldematteis]

It’s cool you can make a power chord out of every note in the pentatonic scale, and it will be in key.a lot of riff possibilities

[Mo-qerf]

My two first practice guitars were single cutaway Martin and a Gibson pro seafoam green. If you ask me, they are okay.

[JulionSpencer]

I never thought about it from that perspective! thanks

[rjameszy]

Thanks, are you familiar with BEADGCF circle of fiths tool? You can quickly capture the structure of the fretboad just rememebering that sequence of notes.

[funkyfishcloneloverofmusic]

Takamine are incredible guitars. I own two and thinking of getting another one. Yamaha as well do make excellent ones. Again, two in my possession, actually 3, but one needs repairwork. I never paid more than 500 € for any of my guitars so far, and am perfectly happy with their characteristics. People often ask me, what guitars I am playing...
Well, i am having to admit, for the 3rd year now i always put Elixir strings on them, hey ... but that was before Sean started telling me about them

[TheDub]

Absolutely hilarious @Hardy, Wait in the Truck, thank you so much for a really good laugh, comedy gold.

[daithiod]

Keep talking Sean Daniel! I’ve learned something from every single video I’ve seen. The Salty comment “guy just likes to hear himself talk” hasn’t figured out how to skip forward, go back, pause, etc. Poor fella!