Figuring out chords method video

[ZR]

I "think" this is the right place to ask this...or should it be in the General category?

Has anyone seen this or something like it? I never have.

Just wondering what you guys thought of this technique he teaches here?

I've studied the CAGED system some but haven't become proficient at using it. Is this similar in any way? How is this similar or different than how you find specific chords to a song?

Thanks!!!

Figuring out chords method video Pt1 (also a part 2)

[Studio Custom]

He's showing you triad inversions.  

[Ting Ho Dung]

On 2/29/2016 at 3:09 PM, ZR said:

I "think" this is the right place to ask this...or should it be in the General category?

Has anyone seen this or something like it? I never have.

Just wondering what you guys thought of this technique he teaches here?

I've studied the CAGED system some but haven't become proficient at using it. Is this similar in any way? How is this similar or different than how you find specific chords to a song?

Thanks!!!

Figuring out chords method video Pt1 (also a part 2)

That's really cool, Z. Thanks for sharing. Learning to move all around the fretboard is challenging but a lot of fun and it breaks you out of "the box". If you haven't done so, you should learn the 5 positions of pentatonics and how to play the same notes in those positions so you can go between the positions. I'm getting decent at it but I'm going to try to learn what this guy is doing too. 

[geoff_hartwell]

This is not a great video or teacher. the first video is taking a triad and inverting it, and the 2nd video encourages you to wander around and stab in the dark. nowhere in either of these is a technique for actual Aural skills.

In the US when pursuing a music degree you are required to take Aural skills which is the auditory part of music theory.

The vast majority of what you're looking for is major or minor triads with root notes that correspond to notes in the major or minor scale. Learn to identify notes within these two easy scales, the basic chords in their construction, and from their roots first.

Your best bet is to learn to identify and reproduce notes and intervals within an octave, according to the major scale (then natural minor). Doesn't have to be solfege (do, re mi...), I think it's far more useful to use numbers, but learn to sing it ascending and descending (all the way up, and back), and most importantly with skips. Sing one, two, one. That's a major second. Sing one, three, one. That's a major third. Sing one, four, one. That's a perfect fourth. Sing one, five, one. Perfect fifth. One, six, one=major sixth. One, seven, one=major seventh. And finally one, octave one. Then do it descending (one, down to 7, one) (one down to 6, one) (one, down to five, one) etc. This exercise will allow you to identify ROOT MOVEMENT from one chord to another using the notes of the major scale as a basis.

For learning songs and progressions - The most obvious ones you need to know cold are the most common bass line structures. Sing One, four, five. Sing One, six, four five. Sing two, five, one. Sing one, three, six, two, five, one. Etc.

Learn to be able to identify and reproduce a major triad and minor triad as an arpeggio (sing "one, three, five" as a major triad, and sing "one, flat three, five" for a minor triad). Then identify and reproduce the diatonic triads according to the major scale (I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii dim), and natural minor scale or Aeolian mode (i, ii dim, III, iv, v, bVI, bVII).

99% of everything you want to play in western music is related to these few concepts.

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The quick and easy way for guitarists to figure out songs by ear is to first play the bass line or roots of each chord by itself on the 6th and/or 5th strings. (For example sing the bass line for "Stand By Me") That is your biggest harmonic road map. You can then use each root note as the basis for simple power chords. Play the notes in the bass line on the 6th string starting from C on the 8th fret.

If you wish to go further, assign major and minor triads to the appropriate places, most often in keeping with diatonic chord scales. For example with Stand By Me in C: C,C, C,C,  A,A,   A,A,   F,F,   G,G,  C,C, C,C.  

Or 1,1,   1,1,   6,6,   6,6,   4,4,   5,5,   1,1.                Or I,I,   I,I,    vi, vi,    vi, vi,     IV, IV,    V,V,   I,I.

IN THE KEY OF C, which are major chords, which minor?

[tommy p]

I agree - not the greatest video or teacher but he could shave and play Paul McCartney in a Beatles tribute band.