Incredible Chord-Scale Connector guitar lesson

are you tired of being able to play only single notes and only chord shapes and want to be able to connect the chord shapes with the scale shapes that you know so that you can create new and interesting sounds with both chords and melodies this incredible chord connector is going to show you how to do that two weeks ago I released a video that has become the most popular video on my channel so far it's called the most useful guitar lick I ever learned in this video we're going to expand on that concept because we need to be able to move the concept to different positions on the guitar whenever we come across a new key because we don't always get to play in the same key so today's concept sounds something like this [Music] thank you [Music] all right so let's first learn this tiny little scale shape and you actually probably already know this skill shape if you've been playing guitar for a while it's actually a really simple five note scale shape and we're gonna play it in this case this is the key of G major we're going to play it right here from the fourth actually from the third to the fifth fret and it sounds like this I mean how easy is that that is just literally the five notes of the pentatonic scale we're starting on B though so we're actually going b d e g a so our root is actually there right so the really cool thing about this scale shape is not only that it's small and easy it's very compact but that it fits right over top of or just above this very common Barre chord shape right so this bar chord shape is G major bar chord and we can see that when we look at the shape this note here that my second finger is on that b that's where the scale shape starts now if we file that away in our memory we can remember that whenever we are on this major chord we always have these five notes to play with so if I wasn't on a g maybe I was on a c I've got the same five notes right or G [Music] or D back to C [Music] and G [Music] A little transition chord there now what we're going to do is we're going to explore this area and how to make it sound a little more interesting because there's only five notes well five notes I guess is all we really need it is pentatonic for five right but um you might quickly get bored of playing just those five notes so we want to have some lick ideas so that after we're done playing the chord that we're not just noodling around right that we know what these notes are what kind of uh Character Are they going to give us and what notes that will sound good to bend we find this whole system by the root being here right which means that the root is of course is there on the high E string as well right so root root so when we're playing something we want to remember that that's our root that's a good place to to finish a line foreign [Music] now we have a blue note at the top of this shape too that is a really sweet blue note especially I like it there because it becomes the highest pitch that we typically play there and I like it when that blue note is the highest pitch because it's so nice to just go up to it and come back down to it right put the cord back in [Music] makes a real bluesy right you can slide to it or just Hammer to it or just play it remembering that our root is there that gives us resolve not that we always have to end on the root but it's good to get used to that sound and to train your ear to hear those roots so that we can as we change chords we're going to outline each chord by highlighting the roots of those next chords right so now let's turn it into more of a launch so in my previous video we had kind of a launch like that now this launched because we're in a different position the launch is going to be quite different we're going to launch from this note here this note is That's a g that's another root if you know your octave shapes you'll know that's an octave shape root so there's a root now we're adding this to our box shape right let's have a look [Music] so we can use those series of notes these three guys here as a launch into whatever lick we want to do hit the chord again [Music] there's that blue note [Music] do some hammer-ons [Music] now let's spice up the launch a bit we're gonna spice up the launch by hammering into the third that's the third there so instead of just going straight across the launch we're gonna go thank you let's add the cord back in right we can hit the cord [Music] whenever we come back down we could also still do that little hammer on [Music] so we go up whatever do the hammer on the way down [Music] up [Music] hammer on on the way down [Music] here's the launch without the hammer on [Music] here's the launch with the hammer on cool now we have a whole bunch of colorful licks that we can play here and we can always visualize how it's connected to the chord so no matter where we move the chord remember that that scale shape for major pentatonic is always there for us it's like it's like a comfort right it's like I can go up to see now C's at the eighth fret I have the same thing [Music] which reminds me of the other thing we should do is instead of hammering to that note we can also slide to it [Music] because really this whole thing is just a smaller version of the full chord write this as a Triad this is root third fifth of that G chord or whatever it happens to be if it's at the eighth fret that's root third fifth there right so it's a perfect little shape to play we don't have to play the whole bar chord we could play [Music] that works well right [Music] okay now it's the last little lick for this idea and then we're going to connect this whole concept with the concept from the previous video and then we've got a whole really cool sequence so this next little lick is remember that we're hammering on to that that's the major third of the chord we can also do what we call enclosure which is that we go above the note that we want to go to then below the note that we want to go to and then finally we go to the note that we want to so if our Target our end result is that b note is that major third I'm going to go above it I'm going to go below it and then I'm going to hit it so [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] so that's called enclosure so to summarize that whole section remember that whenever you have this big bar chord you have this easy pentatonic shape and when you have that easy pentatonic shape you have this Blue Note at the top [Music] right and we have this uh hammer to the major third or we have this slide to the major third or we have enclosure that's a lot of cool stuff in just a tiny little area oh and I even forgot we have the little Triad shape of the cord as well now let's connect this whole concept with the concept from my previous video from two weeks ago that video is called the most useful guitar lick that I've ever learned and if this case we're playing in the key of G so G is my one Chord my four chord therefore is C so if I'm in the key of G I'm very likely to have a c chord at some point in the song and that's really handy because my C chord my four chord is going to be right here it's going to be this bar chord here and if you saw that video you'll know that the most useful lick is connected to this chord shape [Music] and the reason why that lick is so useful is because it starts in this incredibly common chord shape and then launches us into our easy pentatonic shape in this case C major pentatonic so this is why we want to be able to connect the two because if our one chord has its root on the low E string our IV chord will have its root on the a string and therefore these two systems these two really useful launching licks are used one for the one is used for the one chord and the other is used for the IV chord right so the one chord which we started this video with was something like [Music] now the IV chord is [Music] back to the one chord [Music] the four chord [Music] let's do the five chord the five chords easy because if we know where the four chord is then we always know the V chord is just two Frets up so that was my four chord so my five chords here right [Music] and since my five chord is this chord shape I'm using this launching system right we'll go back to the IV chord which is two Frets down same launching system [Music] now back to my one chord and because my one chord is this chord shape with its root on the low E I use this launching system [Music] let's put it all together we're going to do a one four one five four one kind of like a 12 Bar Blues but not actually that bluesy one [Music] four [Music] one five [Music] four [Music] one [Music] five [Music] augmented chord just to be fancy I think it's far too often that when we teach guitar we teach scales and we teach chords and we don't often show how those two shapes are actually very connected and once we see it it's like you can't unsee it if you just memorize this chord shape as being connected to this easy major pentatonic shape you'll know it for forever and you'll be able to use it when you're playing on your own kind of like self-accompaniment kind of style or even if you are playing a band these are great kind of simple licks to play as a rhythm guitar player depending on the genre you're playing and whenever you see These Guys these chords you can throw in a little Lick in between the vocal lines right try not to do too much you don't want to interrupt the vocal line too much the singer might not like that someone on the other video pointed out this is a Jimi Hendrix thing yes it is a Jimi Hendrix thing totally so it but it works in lots of different genres it works in anything that is kind of Blues or rock or country or pop or even things that are kind of neo-sold and a little bit Jazzy so if you haven't seen that video from two weeks ago check it out because that will help you to connect these two ideas I didn't fully explain that other launch because it's fully explained in that other video and that video is the most useful lick I ever learned and it is I use it all the time I don't get tired of it unlike some other licks I do get tired of please do like and subscribe and share this video if you've enjoyed it we're trying to get this channel going and we've got a little bit of momentum we've got lots of great comments from people and lots of great suggestions I really appreciate those of you who are commenting below and giving me some ideas for new things to do videos on I teach guitar here in Vancouver Canada my schedule is very full but if you'd like you can give me a ring through my website it's www.blumors.com thanks everyone

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Length: 17min 29sec (1049 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 03 2022