Guitar Chord Tones - Know what you're playing!

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[derrickmickle]

This is gold: "Let it be hard, the harder it is for you and the slower it is for you, the more you're gaining from it... When we don't look for shortcuts; when we don't take shortcuts and look things up all the time; when we take this longer process that takes more patience and that's annoying and it's frustrating and hard to do and we wish we were better...that's when it really sticks. That's when we get long-term knowledge. That's when we get stuff that just seems obvious to us because we've done it enough and lived it."

[mariomarcoustic]

What an unbelievable good teacher. After following so many other YouTube teachers I'm so glad that I found Jared. Mindblowing

[GuitarLifeYa]

Love love love your channel Jared, so well taught!
I believe the chord is E minor 7 flat 5
Root, b3, b5 and b7
Thanks for teaching such great material!

[joemama]

This lesson is exactly what I had been looking for Thank you so much. To anyone struggling to put this together (as i did) I'd recommend putting on a backing track of just one chord and practicing on 2 different strings each time until you feel confident and then changing the chord, making it more tricky, adding 7ths and moving it up or down and then start again.

[huntintrailmetals]

It has taken me days to understand this sitting in my room for literally 2weeks to comprehend what you are doing but finally got it and it feels amazing! Thanks for your help

[BlueFritzie]

This is a great series, I've got a young guitarist in my neighborhood I'm trying to help out and this series will help me explain lots of things to him, thanks Jared.

[israel_ns]

This series is amazing. Exactly what I've looking for so long. Thank you.

[lucamura]

Jared, i can't thank you enough for the series. So well explained it's a pleasure to listen to you.
Mille grazie from Italy!

[glynnp]

Started studying classical guitar over 40 years ago. Now that I'm studying jazz guitar (my Achilles heel) I realized a few months ago that understanding intervals and how to see them on the fingerboard is one of the most important things to learn. I learned as a kid how to play I-IV-V blues (because everyone jammed to it) and so knew where to find them on the 6th and 5th strings, but never took it to the next level. THIS is vital to learn. Great job Jared on putting this out there...in multiple lessons.

[barrycoulter]

This is excellent! Thx! Needed this series..

[lewiswarne]

love the learning philosophy and growth mindset

[argentnomad]

This series is fantastic, I'm so glad I found it. I've hit exactly that wall you were talking about, in that I can play things that I learn decently enough but I don't know *why* I'm playing, or why it sounds the way it sounds. I've been looking for just this kind of instruction.

[TimHolman]

Great video! Very essential information. 👌🎸

[danikparisien]

Wow your videos is exactly what I was looking for. Back at learning guitar, I decided to go to square one. But instead of playing guitar I want to play music using the guitar. With your blog I believe I have found an order of videos that will allow me to understand and practice better. Thank you for that
Oh and the quiz answers although already answered I wanted to figure it out anyway. Happy I did understand even thought its taking me some time to find all of them b5, b3, b7, 1.

[vonschmaal]

This is so so nice lessons, love you`re approach.

[MarkNealJr]

This is an awesome lesson! I could not see how it was b7, but then I remembered that from the 3rd to 2nd string it's a different shape for a whole step. I kept thinking it was just 7. Thank you for the lesson.

[DHEERAJSL]

very essential lessons....looking for more....thanku

[soundguitar]

Chord Quiz Challenge: Can you name the correct chord tones at 15:41?

[crashercrusher]

Once this clicked in my head, I cried.

[clintondavis]

Counting. I know guitarists communicate with math language. It’s a hard way for me to think - maybe I need serious therapy be for trying this. I learned chord shapes to play songs. Then, I learned to make different shapes for the same chords up and down and across the board using mostly triads and four note chords. Then I connected those chord notes across and up/down the board to play lead lines. I played guitar to sing songs. Over time, I became familiar with many standard chord progressions. I learned how changing one or two notes in a chord changed the sound and I could hear that sound and replicate it by altering chords in progressions. I learned to follow the melody in a song and to alter it, change the color - if you would- all the time heading the note as if sung in my head. I can hear songs now and know pretty much the chord progression for the song, and the alterations a song writer used to give it a particular character and identity. I choose how to play with others by following the melody and it’s deviations across and up and down the board, one note leading to the next one that jus sounds like where I need to go - the previous note leads me to the next and do on. Some patterns arise but I like to play with it and take chances by altering the pattern - some work out. My playing seems impressive to others now but I run into trained musicians all the time and they talk in the numbers language whereas I can only struggle to explain with words to describe sound and sound movement. I learned many useful sounds by playing music from the 30’s to 60’s, a lot of Sinatra-like stuff, old jazz and pop standards. The songs you are rich with melody and time nuances. Thankfully, one can find chord suggestions on line to speed up the process and after trying many songs, the voicing of chords, and their role in songs, becomes very interesting- a truly enlightening experience.
Yet, … and still, I can’t talk numbers to the number-thinking players. It’s frustrating, especially when you’re playing with others talking this language, in their world, to get on the same page. Me, … I need to know the key of a song to get started and hear it run through once, which is usually enough. I simply join in as the song is played and usually quickly find my place to support the songs with my playing. I delight in finding a good song’s special character.
This process and way of thinking permeates everything I do: learning sports, cooking, drawing and painting, gardening, writing, photography, … you name it.
Many times I wish I could think in numbers. I was never great in Algebra, but I could fly in Trigonometry. There’s something about how a mind works that causes learning to move easily down one path and to stumble on another.
I may try to struggle with this note numbering thing - st least to know something to use for communication with the number-thinking musicians.