Easiest Way to Become a MASTER of the Fret Board

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] hey what's up you guys marty schwartz here with marty music thanks for clicking on this video uh we've got another uh great lesson from my guitar teacher the main guitar teacher i had in my life his name's chris shirlen he's gonna talk about a concept called the circle of fifths that is a very important concept i can't wait for him to show it to you and also real quick you know he's got his own youtube channel that he started yes my guitar teacher that taught me so i would appreciate you guys going and checking that out and so i've got a link below for that and then as always thanks for supporting me here at marty music subscribing clicking the bell notification helps me out so thank you and all right chris tell us about the circle of fifths hey thanks for having me back on the channel marty i appreciate it today we're going to talk about the circle of fifths and i have a question for you are you confused by the circle of fifths if your answer is yes you qualify as a normal human being because it's a strange wacky concept it's a mathematical truth and so it's objective it is always the same but there are so many different ways to explain the circle of fifths if you move clockwise it's in fifths if you go counterclockwise it's in fourths is it a chord progression is it what is it and so what i want to do today is to try to demystify this a little bit i'm going to show you a really easy way to put it on the neck i'm going to show you sort of a longer path and i'm going to show you a couple of applications of how to use the circle of fifths as a guitar player sort of who's curious about music theory and wants to understand um what it is and and how to use it all right let's get started okay so let's demystify that circle of fifths shall we let's get it on the fretboard first we're going to get it on the screen and we're just going to leave it up there because there it is now it's not looking much like a circle because we really don't have the space here it's just laid out but you can see it starts on c and it ends on c so that's a circle if you look up um circle of fifths if you do a search for it you'll find all of the great sort of circular diagrams that also show the end harmonics which is where g flat and f sharp are the same thing but we don't have to think about that too much what we're going to do today is just get the circle onto the fretboard so we can use it so the easiest way to do that the cheapest and sort of easiest way to do that i found is to map it onto the a and the e string as just a a cycle of notes so we're just going to say the only strings we're going to use are e and a and we're going to use the lowest note we can find so the circle starts on c there it is on the third fret of the a string so i'm going to play it with my ring finger that's and and i'm going to do that for a reason that's going to become very apparent quickly so here's our c the next note in the pattern is g that's on the same fret on the e string now the circle goes in fifths so the next note isn't d we're going to use the one on the a string and now the next note in the circle is a next note on the circle's e you see the pattern that's happening here then b then g flat if we've never known this is a g flat before we do now but we've just been following this pattern right this is a g flat why because we're on the a string here's the a on the 12th fret a g g flat from g flat we go to d flat see it's same pattern a flat d flat b flat f and c so it gets a little tricky when you go g flat d flat a flat e flat b flat those might be notes that you don't recognize right away and so the challenge is you can just play this pattern because it just goes across from the a to the e and then up a fifth which is two frets to the next string [Music] right but i've gone past c i don't even know what note i'm on now so the whole idea behind the circle of fifths is that it becomes valuable when you can identify what the notes are so just take your time with this start on c it gets it's really easy here when you get here to the g flat it gets a little more challenging just make sure you know what note you're on spend some time with that it's it's important to sort of stay found instead of getting lost you stay found so you always know what note you're on that's an important thing to do okay now we're going to take that same pattern and we're just going to hang bar chords on it just bring it along bring these barre chords along with us so here's our c whenever we're playing a bar chord with a root on the a string it's this a shape hopefully you're familiar with that and then whenever we're playing an uh bar chord with a note on the e with the root on the e string it's our e shape [Music] so now we're just going to play the same pattern but we're going to bring whole chords with us so here's c g d a e b wait a minute that sounds familiar check this out [Music] it's hey joe byers [Music] it's jimi hendrix it's hey joe so there's a very useful uh example of the circle of fifths it's hey joe hey joe is the first five notes in the circle of fifths just mapped as major chords beautiful now we've got a very very practical example of how the circle of fifths is used obviously the rest of the circle you want to complete with these chords [Music] but that's a nice little diverge that's but that's a nice little divergence like whoa there's hey joe sitting right in the circle that's good the next thing we're going to do is do the same exact thing but instead of bringing the bar chords with us we're going to strip away the root and this big bar and we're just going to use triads and the triads we're going to use are going to be on the d g and b string so if you look at these two bar chords just look at the notes on the on the d g and the b string [Music] these are our two triads this happens to be a second inversion triad and that's a root position triad so i'm going to be watching these notes but i'm not going to be playing them i'm going to be playing the triads instead here's c g pattern is so easy d a d d g flat i'm playing a g fat i'm playing a g flat triad maybe i've never even done that before g flat d flat a flat e flat b flat there's a b flat triad way up here f c so i've just played triads around the circle of fifths and i've just played some weird chords that maybe i've never played before a d-flat triad way up there like now i'm using the circle of fifths and i'm having this other experience where i'm playing stuff that i've never played before but i know what i'm doing and that's where the circle of fifth starts to become really really useful one more example and that is how you use the circle of fifths to apply new information to the neck let's just say we've got a new scale to learn and it's the blues scale i'm going to start on c because that's where the tri that's where the circle starts c blues scale looks like this [Music] so now i'm just going to play the blues scale around the circle of fifths [Music] where are we e [Music] b here's g flat blue scale [Music] d flat scale what scale is this [Music] a flat blue scale e flat b flat blue scale f and then back to c [Music] just played the blues scale around the circle of fifths that's great never done that before maybe you've never done that before maybe you have but that is a way to take some new information and spread it around the neck and maybe you don't ever use it like that but you've had the experience of playing the blues scale in every key that can't be a bad thing okay very last thing i'm going to show you and this is the hard part and that is to look at the circle of fifths on a single string the pattern i showed you before that goes back and forth from the a and the e string is sort of the easy way in it's the easy way to map the circle to the to the neck the hard way and the way that really gets you some fretboard knowledge is to map it to a single string and then do that on every string so let's just give that a shot we'll start on the a string simply because we've started the whole pattern on the a string we'll give ourselves a break here's that c now we gotta find the g on this on the same string on the a string g on the a string you can find it one of two ways you can count up on the a a b c d e f g or you can go back from the 12th fret which is a little bit easier since you're since the g is sort of up here already so that's a right to the g so c g now we're looking for d d happens to be on the fifth fret now we're looking for a well there's it's open but i'm gonna play it up here now we're looking for e that's on the seventh fret then we're looking for b [Music] g flat so now let's take our time g flat here's a g g flat there it is way up here d flat there was d back there down one i'm not going to do the whole thing because it's important for you to go check that out like map it to every string i could write down all the frets i could give you the tablature but the best way to do it is to go get it for yourself when you get information for yourself when you're the archaeologist you get to keep it it's not lost on some piece of paper somewhere you've actually gone and found it there it is circle of fifths on the fretboard so there's a a set of ways to look at and think about the circle of fifths as a guitar player like i mentioned at the top it's a little confusing it fits in one way it's fourths in another way but these patterns and these applications i think give you should give you a way to look at the circle of fifths to sort of look at the guitar through the lens of the circle of fifths so how is it useful for me what can i do with it i mean because that's really what you want to know you know as a mystery out there that's confusing and it's music theory mystery it's not very useful but hopefully these patterns will help you understand how it can be useful and i hope it's super helpful again i wanted to just thank marty for having me on the channel i'm hoping that these sort of music theory nuggets are are helpful and help you as much as as uh they helped have helped me become more of a musician i'm sort of leaving the um sort of guitar player behind and and starting to cultivate the musician behind behind the instrument all right i'll see you next time all right thank you again to my guitar teacher chris sherlin you guys check out his youtube channel in the link below i would really appreciate that and if you haven't yet uh i would appreciate you subscribing here to marty music and clicking the bell notification and then also i've got some great links down below for you to check out that will help your guitar playing so thanks for all that and i hope to see you again real soon take care

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Length: 14min 0sec (840 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 10 2021

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