They Don't Teach This In Music School

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In this video I share what I consider 5 of the most important theory tricks or tips for guitar players. On the guitar, music theory can be really hard. In this video I try to recommend some of the best advice that I wish I knew when I was growing up and learning the guitar. Feel free to ask any questions here!

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00:00 Introduction
00:17 Best Way To Learn Theory
01:31 Best Way To Learn The Notes
03:44 Do I Need To Read?
05:23 Most Important Scale For Theory?
06:34 I've Never Seen Anyone Teach This

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[robslater]

Your typical comprehensiveness and clarity. Videos getting better all of the time!

[ruebenblancas]

Great video! Also comforted that I knew this stuff already. Have a great teacher...

[carlosbecerril]

I think 1. Is the most important for the following reason: as you said, the notes dont sit on guitar the way they would on a piano. This leads me to my current problem: I am learning music theory and while chords are making more and more sense, it doesnt seem (with perhaps 1 or 2 exceptions) that anyone is really getting into how finger placement works. Yes, there are plenty of videos on where to put your fingers for certain chords, etc, but very few on why the placements work as they do. I came across 1 video that really got close to scratching this issue, explaining how the notes you hold double up on the root or other notes etc, but with the way notes sit on the fretboard even that has issues sometimes.

All that leads me to what I think holds a lot of people back: lile you say later for another tip, no one wants to memorize in the conventional sense, all those finger patterns on tabs and what not; but a way to make a finger pattern that sits well with music theory. To this end I'm currently looking into different tuning.

[nosferatu]

Awesome video. Ten minutes well spent. Super easy to follow.

[nuberiffic]

These are very definitely taught in music schools.

Also, key and scale are not the same thing.

And I disagree about never reading music while learning theory.
Reading it just makes it all click together