Pat Martino Guitar Lesson: Geometric Revelation - The Nature of Guitar

[Tomatohater]

He's so brilliant he actually makes this seem relatively easy to learn. Now THAT'S a master at his craft.

[jefffelderman]

Pat is a true genius and zen master of music.

[davidnallred]

How does this not have more views? So articulate and effortless in this explanation. Gave me chills!

[conlagrime]

I wish that Pat would've been given a few more decades. Well, it is what it is. Over the decades many great outstanding musicians have come and gone. Pat is right there with them. Thanks Pat, your artistry has made our daily grind so much easier to deal

[bryana]

4:03 of the greatest music lesson i have ever seen. This man is like an astronomer than a musician. Simple explains the circle of fifths even though i Dont read music. "We begin to see it in everyday life".

[Mr_Gray_Sky]

I love that old players are able to explain all of these abstract concepts.

[ronj]

Truefire has been evolving with the quality of their production. This though is several leaps forward. I hope this is the new standard for them. Content: This is great stuff. There is only on Pat Martino.

[dorcasbass]

It always did make more sense to think this way, it takes a clever man indeed to explain it so clearly.

[HelicopterHoneymoon]

well, that made me sub immediately. GREAT philosophy. I have studied music for nearly 30 years and have never seen this concept. And also, studying Pythagoras and so-called sacred geometry, it brought me to this video! Awesome!!!

[sholland]

Geometry.
Wow, so simple, but genius IS making something complex simple.

[mindjob]

There was never a guitar scientist like him

[sergijoe]

Just keep talking man. Don't ever stop. INPUT, need more INPUT!

[guitarslim]

Sorry, I don't get it. He found a diminished seventh chord. How does this help me swing?

[dylanakent]

Why doesn't everyone teach music like this?

[m.vonhollen]

Here’s a quick intro to Pat’s genius. He saw 2 chords as being “parental forms”: the 3-note Augmented triad, and the 4-note Half-Diminished 7th chord.
Play C-E-G# on strings GBE on frets 554. If you move one of those notes DOWN by one fret, you will “parent” 3 different MAJOR TRIADS. If you instead move each one of those notes UP by one fret then you will “parent” 3 MINOR TRIADS. So that 3-note “triangular” “parental form” will generate 6 other triads (3 major ones, and 3 minor ones). Investigate this!
- Now onto the other “parental form”, the FULLY-DIMINISHED 7th chord. Play frets 4545 on strings DGBE. That is 4 different Fully-Diminished 7th chords named for any note of F#-C-D#-A. Now if you move any one of those notes DOWN by one fret, you will “parent” or create 4 different Dominant 7th chords (1-3-5-b7). If instead you move any one of those notes UP by one fret, you will “parent” 4 different Half-Diminished 7th chords (1-b3-b5-b7). Think of the Dim.7th chord as a perfect square.
So instead of spending a lot of time learning all these inversions, you take the two easy-to-find symmetrical “parental forms” and you can easily find 6 other triads and/or 8 other 7th chords.
- There’s so much more to Pat’s genius but this can serve as an intro into how he looked at the fretboard. It is definitely worth investigating further!

[jaxone]

I HAVE A GOOD FEELING HE EXPERIMENTED WITH LSD GREAT VIDEO HERE GOOD STUFF THANK YOU PAT R.I.P.

[santomusic]

Er, yeah...I was just looking to learn the intro to Smoke on the Water!

[shaalis]

This is literally a video you gotta watch a few times, otherwise....it's a TLDR sort of thing. Another way of saying it is: Take the chromatic scale and start with a root at 12 o clock...follow it until you get back to 12 and then use basic geometric shapes to define the intervals as how they divide into 12. I like how you get to see stuff differently and I find this immensely helpful. But Pat uses so much...extra and not useful language that it is needlessly complicated.

[MrSteven]

i dont understand the nature of this information .... ultimately what is he trying to convey

[extramile]

What an amazing concoction of complete babble. Yes, if you take a line and make it a circle !!! you will get a circle. Which has nothing to do with a guitar string. Or pitches.