Master The Fretboard in ONE HOUR

thank you okay here we go perfect sorry guys uh so I'm gonna start that over um so last week we talked about Mark Knopfler was a very very successful stream and we talked a lot about the guitar and I kind of wanted wanted to continue that because people really appreciated that and I appreciated that they appreciated it and uh so I want to kind of dig a little bit more deeply into some of the concepts that we talked about last week uh and with that I'm going to continue the sale that we had last week the ultimate bundle for this week and uh the um let me tell you about the ultimate bundle here because uh uh I did it last week and let me explain what's in it it's my biato book interactive which is my 500 page PDF that's online along with video lectures video examples and audio examples of basically everything in the 500 pages okay uh there's that there's my ear training course it's going to teach you how to do do this stuff by ear figure out all these things as hundreds of interactive modules PDF that goes with that might be out of book or I'm sorry my biato um uh beginner guitar if you guys are beginners and you want to learn how to play the guitar from scratch uh some of the stuff that we're going to talk about here starts simple and gets very complex so this is actually a live live stream for all different levels of player but I'm going to start talking about Concepts that I learned first and that are in these different learning modules and the last one is the quick lessons Pro that that'll have a lot of things I talk about from there all of these things for 99 bucks total together okay they're my four educational software courses and um and we're going to talk about some of the concepts in there and uh and how they relate to Dire Straits and how they relate to playing the guitar like all the other great guitar players that you're that you guys love whether it's Jimmy Page or David Gilmore or Pat Metheny or Alan Holdsworth or uh whoever it is uh these same principles can be used on all different uh instruments but we're going to talk about mastering the fretboard today okay the fretboard right here I'm using my Dan electric guitar I think it's easy to see the Frets on this particular guitar um and I'm going to play with a clean sound so that you can hear what's going on okay so in my first guitar lesson that I ever had I had a guitar teacher Tom Rizzo and I he used to talk about things not in modes he would always talk about the five positions of the major scale and I always thought that that was a great way of talking about this for learning the neck in a particular key and we started in G major and one of the reasons that Tom had me start in G major is because it's easy to visualize the neck because many of the positions will start on a note that has a DOT on it it starts at the third fret with the data the third fret one of the position starts at the fifth fret one starts at the seventh fret one starts at the tenth fret and the other one starts at the uh 12th fret okay now I want you to think of these as positions of the major scales or what what nodes are in a particular key and this key we're going to say is G major that are in this position okay so this is literally my first guitar lesson that might sound oh this is Advanced Rick uh but so we're going to start here with G major so let's know G [Music] now I actually stopped the scale here in a and descend and then I added that F sharp there because that's in that position so I've covered this entire area these four Frets with all the notes that are in the key of G Major G major has one sharp which is a note F sharp g a b c d e f sharp there's your one sharp G and then it starts over g a b c d e f sharp G A okay so I know all the no's so I know all the notes in G major in that one position so if I were to play a chord that's in the key of G major I just did a little uh YouTube short over a minor 11 which I'm using the key of G major foreign [Music] okay so that is all the notes in the key of G major in this position really it's the second position position because it starts at the second fret but I uh I think of it I learned it off the third fret because it has a DOT the next position that Tom showed me is the second position of the major scale and that will be at the fifth fret okay and it's on the second note of the major scale so basically we're going to use the first note second third fifth and sixth well that happens to be a pentatonic scale A major pentatonic scale [Music] so this position is going to be here at the fifth fret and I like to to keep the finger positions where there's no weird stretches and I'll tell you why after [Music] so this third a some people say oh that's that's Orion well it's just all the notes of G major starting on a or as I call it the second position of the major scale [Music] foreign that covers this entire area in G major really goes back from the fourth fret and up to the eighth fret here okay and the same thing if I play that same chord [Music] beautiful so I'm skipping around in that scale pattern and I'm just playing notes that sound good to my ear and now some of those things I was playing I talked about in the last live stream with Mark Knopfler I use this [Music] that would be a g ad for arpeggio [Music] sound but against an A Minor or an A Minor 11 chord it's beautiful [Music] um now we're into the next position [Music] of the major scale that starts on the third note of the major scale so if we're in the key of G first note second note third note this position covers all the notes between the seventh fret and the tenth fret okay once again when you lay thing or things out with four Frets per position basically with some shifting I shifted in that second position there but one two four one three four one three four one three one two four one two four [Music] no okay then I start moving into the next position here this is the fourth position of the major scale and it would start on the note D or the one two three actually the fifth note of the major scale foreign okay some people say oh that's kind of mixolydian right yeah yeah it's the notes of mixolydian D mixolydian but it's the notes of G major so that scale all these five positions of the major scale are in my biato book this also teaches you how to learn the stuff by ear you should be able to hear what notes change if I start if I have a G Major scale and I'm down here I can hear what notes as I'm playing the scale I can figure it out in time I can figure out as the notes are going by and this is the thing with um with actually uh using your ear to play as well because your ear should tell you uh this ear should tell you that um uh what the next note is okay by understanding the interrelationship someone said in the comments no way this is a first lesson I did not say this was a first lesson it says Master the fretboard in one hour that doesn't say that oh if you don't know anything about the guitar that you're going to master the fretboard in one hour I'm showing you how to use how to learn the five positions of the major scale I taught my daughter Layla who never touched a piano until three days ago I taught her how to play I Am The Walrus on the piano how to play all the chords okay now Leyland never played a piano and she doesn't know anything about any chords at all I just showed her what the hand positions were what an a major chord is I said just move down your move your thumb down one note then it was a over G then I went to D over F sharp I didn't tell her the chord names I just said this is the third chord this is the fourth chord the fifth chord and she learned it she didn't know it was difficult she just learned by learning what the order of the chords was and what the patterns with them are if you're a beginning guitar student right you should take my beginner guitar course that's the whole reason I created it so you can learn these things from scratch but there's a certain um amount of memorization that on any instrument you have to memorize uh shapes for example like chord shapes if I'm learning the guitar I'm Gonna Learn E minor I'm going to learn C major I'm Gonna Learn G I'm Gonna Learn D I'm gonna learn a minor E minor I'm Gonna Learn B7 I'm going to learn A7 I'm Gonna Learn D7 I'm going to learn G7 okay these are all the things that you have to memorize the same thing with mastering your fingerboard the fretboard is that you have to learn where every major uh scale is in every position uh so like I said once you understand the relationship of of the different finger patterns then you can transpose it to any key so if I'm in the key of D major and I'm down here I'm I know that I'm going to play position three down here starting on the third of a D major chord because I have a D major chord there I play the third and I notice started off that note [Music] okay if I'm in the key of F major I'm gonna start here off the Third [Music] or G major I'm gonna start off the third here B when I say the third that means the third note of the scale the G Major scale one two three third note I find that note there there and I do that finger pattern if I want to play it in D flat major I say what's the third note of a d flat major scale let's start in D flat one two three that notes F I go down to F same I know that that is d flat major in that position [Music] okay uh the next position after this one so we've got one two three four and then the fifth position foreign ends on the tonic note G Okay so [Music] all right so those are the five positions of the major scale so if I know that this this position the third position [Music] starts on the fifth note of the major scale anytime I TR I try to transpose it to a different key let's say I want to transpose it to the key of s of C if I go let's take a C major scale one two three four five so the note G so I go down I go down here foreign so I transpose that position down off the fifth note of the scales this is how you learn your scales in every key across the entire neck um so uh this was incredibly helpful for a first lesson you're probably thinking like wait that was your first lesson yes and my second lesson was based off the same principles Tom said okay next we're going to learn the five positions of the pentatonic scale and we're going to learn them in exactly the same areas we're going to start on the same notes PFG major [Music] so he showed me there one and four one three one three one so those are the five that's the uh the first position of a G major pentatonic then we move to the second note we do the second position of the G Major scale the second pentatonic position [Music] thank you okay so that's uh the uh a G major pentatonic starting on the second note of the scale so if you just know your one two three five six notes of your pentatonic scale starts on the second note of the scale then the third note of the scale the note B here [Music] now this was really easy for me because once I learned this I said oh my God that's right in the same position of the scale it all made sense every one of these positions where my G Major scale is uh [Music] so I would practice go up a major scale [Music] [Music] and come down major okay so these are the the the ways that you go about learning these thing and mastering them now in my biato book all this stuff is presented in order okay so um uh so once I learned that third position I was like God that looks just like the third position of the major scale and Tom was very smart about this because he just he had taught so many lessons that this was uh really was just easy he's like teach the major pentatonic uh positions and the major scale positions off the same notes that way you're not confusing this and it's like you use one bit of knowledge to build on the next bit of knowledge and that's what you want to do makes it easy to memorize the stuff so he took the uh if I take the one two three fourth position of the major scale [Music] then I can play this position [Music] uh fourth position of the major pentatonic scale [Music] here which is in the same finger area as this foreign [Music] pentatonic that most people know that's G major blues or E minor blues I'm sorry G major pentatonic or E minor pentatonic they're the same notes just starting in a different spot once you learn that if you're in the key of G major you know all your G major scales across the entire neck and you know all your G major pentatonics off the same notes the first note third note I'm sorry first note second note third note fifth note and sixth note of the major scale you learn those positions yeah um Sammy okay how much do I get your guitar course and how how do I get your guitars okay uh so the guitar chords my my um my guitar chords if you're talking about the my piano book all of my courses are just one price of 99 bucks so that's it you get my beginner guitar chords if you're a beginner you get my biato book uh Interactive uh and you just get a license code and then you get on it and you can go and watch all the videos associated with it you can go you can read all the different scales and things like that the ear training course you log in with that you can go through all the modules it teaches you intervals how to hear these things how to hear major chords how to hear minor chords out here add nine chords out of your chord progressions if it's a a six five four one chord progression or or uh two five one or three six two five one chord progression or one major three four minor four you know one major three uh major four minor four one it teaches you how to hear all that kind of stuff that and then my quick lessons Pro guitar chords that's really more advanced so really this stuff uh actually works for for anyone whether you're a beginner or Advanced and they also work with these lessons that I'm doing online so my biato book uh I wrote years ago but when I started making videos on YouTube I basically made videos to go along and teach the things that were in that right so if you look up things like spread Triads if you go to my Channel or type in spread Triads well there's there's like 10 videos on spread tries or spread trades on the keyboard there's spread tries on the guitar and you're like well what is a spread Triad well spread Triad let's say we take a G major spread Triad it's if you take a G major arpeggio one three five take the second note move it up active so that's a first inversion G major spread tread that's the second inversion it's off the Third second version because it's off the Fed [Music] I love those those are beautiful sounding and I teach you how to learn those [Music] how to learn those in every position [Music] so you can learn where the notes of every Triad are you know if you're in an A minor chord so it goes through those are all the notes of a minor root Fifth Third or flat third third root fifth fifth third root root Fifth Third [Music] I love those sounds those spread trades beautiful sounding all those are in my book yes uh the sale will be going through this week until next weekend okay I extended it because uh it was interesting because people really connected with the Mark Knopfler especially when I talked about how Mark used Triads uh and he played over each individual chord and that's why I think that people really connected with this playing and I talked about how Jimmy Page did the same thing in the stairway solo somebody remarked Rick's like oh the video is going to get demonetized or Rick's talking about uh Zeppelin and he doesn't want to get video to get demonetized then he plays the entire stereo to Heaven solo right and um uh it doesn't matter whether it gets demonetized or not it's it's oh people that complained about the ads that were in the video then after last week I apologize get an ad blocker when I used I played Dire Straits songs in here and so the video gets demonetized it's just done by Bots there's nothing I can do about it if I could take the ads out I would uh but uh there are ways around it you can join YouTube uh premium like I do so I never see ads I got on you uh Incognito YouTube to search something so I wouldn't get all these things in my um in my recommendations and then all of a sudden I saw commercials just for a second I was like oh no sign back in I do not want to see commercials I always forget about that okay so after you learn that second position or the second the major pentatonic positions which is also the minor pentatonic positions Tom said okay the next lesson he's like okay we're gonna add one extra note to that pentatonic scale and we're going to get what is called the blues scale and I was like what's the blue scale it's like you know BB King Albert King I was like oh like blues guitar or something Jimi Hendrix yes and I said okay so what note do you add he said well let's take this first position you can finger it however you want I like to figure one three one three one three one three one three doesn't matter I figure it different ways depending on where I'm playing but he said go one three four I added the and I said what notice that he says the flat five the major key it's really the flat third if we're in the key of G major one two flat three natural three and I start saying yes I get this because I already learned the Hey Joe solo so I knew what the what that minor pentatonic scale was or minor blues scale but then I start seeing it in different positions and this opened up the whole fingerboard for me this is really how you get to to learn how to play and improvise okay so then I said okay what's the next position then I was like I was a sponge all right what's the next position and I was just trying to memorize this stuff as fast as I could one two three right you go to the second position of the major pentatonic foreign [Music] would do stuff like that [Music] if Tom would make it much more musical than that I'm doing it as a demonstration there [Music] then you go to the next position here [Music] so I'm the third position of the major pentatonic scale and I just add that blue note wherever it comes up so if I'm doing you know [Music] really that's a great position to play uh in over over a blues I've got this G major chord here we're going to talk about Triads on three strings here but [Music] okay then you go to the next position okay and I was like okay I know this position then I went [Music] because I would play this extended I knew this extended uh uh pentatonic scale [Music] and I knew this position but I didn't know these notes back here okay so that is the fourth position of the major blues scale and then the fifth position is your what most people know is the one position of the minor blues scale [Music] now one of the things that Tom showed me this I thought this was interesting because it actually broke me out of certain patterns here instead of doing he said also go [Music] is a very subtle difference here instead of [Music] he told me that that's um there are certain that you want to know and I'm not sure why Tom taught me that but it was really helpful because I think it really [Music] oh whoops [Music] um so those are the positions of the major scale the five positions the major scale the five positions of the major pentatonic scale and the five positions of the major blues scale okay then you're like okay well what do I do with these things well the next thing to learn is to really just understand basic chords major minor uh diminished augmented chords really major and minor chords so the next thing he told me was about diatonic chords in a key okay so he said all right we'll stick with the key of G so key of G has seven chords G major is the one chord a minor is a two chord B Minor's a three chord c major is the four chord D major is the V chord E minor is the sixth chord and F sharp diminished is the seven chord and then and then you're back to the one chord okay um see here somebody's talking about the audio there I just moved my microphone foreign belly sound okay refresh your browser if that's a if that's a problem okay so then Tom said okay let's learn where the actual chord arpeggios are in each position so we're still sticking with these same positions here so G major and I'm so glad that I learned these things when I was 14 no 16 I was 16 when it took lessons because the SE things are hard to play these arpeggios and it was just great Tom [Music] and I'll tell you one little thing that Tom taught me that was really important and this is something that I have in my if you buy my beginner guitar course if you buy all my courses it's all the same price it's 99 bucks it's 330 off just go to my website rickbeauto.com you can buy it you get all of them for 99 bucks um so one of the things I teach people is that you should be able to play things with and without bars what do I mean by bars like barring your fingers so if I'm going to play this G major Triad that goes with a straight G major chord one three five one three five one three five so I did a bar here I did um the root third then fifth root so I'm barring my third finger across those two strings but you notice on the way down I didn't do that I went [Music] I did it I played the fourth finger fourth finger third finger first finger second finger and here's why I did that because it comes right out of a chord shape when you learn your first major bar chord which is in my beginner guitar chords here I teach bar chords you can visually see that that third let me turn this way here these two fingers are put together and Tom taught me to I already could play bar chords but he said use the things that you already know to help you play new things and I was like what does that mean he said let's say you're playing a G major arpeggio finger it like this because that's how you play it when you're when you're playing it as a chord form you've already developed the the uh dexterity to play it to just plop that chord [Music] all right so your fingers are used to doing that [Music] so smart in retrospect Tom was a great guitar player I only took like three lessons from them literally I took three lessons from them I still have my book and he taught me all this stuff in three lessons these just all this beginners uh it's not beginner this is really advanced stuff but I'm glad that he did it then um then you go to the second chord a minor that's the second chord in the key of G okay there's two ways you can play this one four three three one one one four but on the way down I fingered it differently so I did it like that it just feels natural to do it [Music] I think I'd do that because I shift positions because I should position so much that's why I'm so used I'm so used to barring it or fingering each note individually it makes your playing much smoother okay uh try to um not um try to not um if you can avoid bars try to avoid them if you can't avoid bars if they're faster to play then play them okay um so a minor B minor is here it's the same fingering then you go C major that's the four the four chord in the key of G then D major [Music] it's a five chord E minor then F sharp diminished so those are the seven chords in the key of G Major G major a minor B minor C Major D major E minor F sharp diminished now if my um thing works here the uh my iPad and my pen is charged let's see if this will work now okay oh I have to do this nope that's a white thing here erase that I gotta make the ink black bill you told me that didn't you yeah uh I don't see it on here I'll make it blue it doesn't matter Okay so so this uh uh so here's your G major arpeggio if this is the third fret there this is what it's going to look like and I would just memorize the shapes like that okay and I play them one note at a time so this would be a G major arpeggio G major there we go hold on a minor would be oh my God fifth fret and be here here whoops here here here done ah screwed it up here do it again it's weird to see blue here root third fifth root third fifth root third that would be a minor B minor is going to be the same fingering but it starts at the seventh fret B minor okay root third fifth so it's going to look exactly the same this is how you learn these things though you learn them by visualizing them C major okay uh this is going to be at the eighth fret tier I'm going to put eight there because this is where this is going to start this is going to be the same fingering as the G major right these two fingerings are the same you notice that so it's all it's learning a lot of the same things um D major oh my God I don't know how this is going to stay here Billy here we go there we go uh D major same thing so going to be the tenth fret I like this blue actually maybe it's because it's almost the color of my um my Gibson signature as D major then you get E minor at the 12th fret I love chord diagrams like this I live by chord diagrams this is how you really can learn uh the F sharp diminished one is a little bit different so I'm going to start here at the um 14th fret it's a good fingering here one flat three flat five one flat three flat five one flat three that's a cool fingering there the F sharp diminished here I can do it here [Music] right I think that's a cool finger [Music] I'll do it down here so you can hear it better and see it [Music] so what you want to do then is you want to go through let me click this off here you want to go through these uh hold on oh my gosh my iPad is is actually there we go now you see how you have that on there how do I get out of that there we go oh that's weird that was very weird okay so um [Music] oh those are all the arpeggios in the key of G major okay well if you have all the arpeggios in G major then you know all the arpeggios in E Minor because they're all the same they're just shifted around um the next thing that I learned I learned from my next guitar teacher was who is Mark Minetta so I had time for three weeks then I had Mark Minetta um so Tom Rizzo somebody said Tom Rizzo yes so uh so Mark then taught me about seventh chord he goes well we're going to learn seventh chord arpeggios this is just about learning the neck and he said we're going to learn it in the key of G duh okay so he says Uh there's basically um there are seven chords in it okay but the seventh chords are gonna be G Major seven a minor seven E minor seven C Major seven d seven E minor seven and then F sharp minor seven flat five I was like what is that he goes it's called a half diminished chord and then back to the one you said each one of those has an arpeggio fingering I said okay he said instead of learning it like this I'm going to teach you in just one position so that you can learn them uh quicker and this was good so he goes we're going to go to the fifth fret now I'm going to go to to my um I'm gonna go to my grids again right now because I want to show you these here so so basically we do this let me let me click back on here this is really cool okay so so we're gonna say this is the fifth fret whoops sorry um we're gonna go here here here here here this is a Major Seventh chord major seven ah isn't it weird to write on iPads or any type of device like that I think it is major seven okay so you're blocking those two notes right there so you get this but then you're gonna learn the arpeggio for this and um um and somebody says uh Paul just said for you lefties get a mirror out my third guitar teacher's name was Glenn Cummings and Glenn was left-handed and when we sat there his guitar neck went the same way as mine and was so easy to learn the fingerings are the same you just need to learn how to how to use the grids that way okay so the arpeggio that goes with this this is a Major Seventh arpeggio ah so this is a major seven arpeggio ARP okay like I said this is all my book this is made to be played one note at a time Major Seventh arpeggio here's major seven chord all I'm doing I'll do it at the fifth fret okay so we're gonna make this the fifth fret just easier fifth fret okay so it's going to be a major seven an a major seven arpeggio one three five major seven one three five major seven one but he would tell me to start on the major seven [Music] so you have somewhere so I have a way to come back to the node so I'd play the chord I play the arpeggio [Music] back [Music] a seventh this chord okay now dominant seventh we talked about last week with Mark Knopfler okay um I see what's going on with this thing here dominant seventh chord just a straight dominant seven okay this would be like an A7 arpeggio okay so it's gonna be oh sorry but I wish there was a way that could uh oh that's all right every time I put my hand down on is there a secret to this or something to make this thing freeze lock it in position I wonder if there is Billy all right okay there we go I just put my hand down gingerly here three five boom this note I'm gonna extend the air the uh thing to there okay this is a dominant seven arpeggio okay so once again we're gonna play the chord now we're going to play the arpeggio [Music] and he said actually add this note in here [Music] board and I like to come back to that flat seven there [Music] it's really cool sound beautiful [Music] foreign did [Music] I added the force to it one [Music] it's great it's like Jerry Garcia would do that Pat Metheny would do that Mark Knopfler would do that uh Peter Frampton would do that Brian May Jimmy Page very common The Beatles George Harrison would do that um that's a dominant seventh arpeggio then you have minor seventh arpeggio that goes to the minor seventh chord ah so we're gonna do this once again at the fifth fret minor seven and the arpeggio goes I'm gonna do it like this one three five flat seven one three five flat seven one three this is the minor seven arpeggio we're really learning the neck here you guys so this is going to be the fifth fret here too okay not to be confused let me just rewrite that first chord there okay it's a great way you can bar it like that if you want X Out X out there you play each note by themselves like this or you can play them as a bar I prefer to play it that way it's faster to do that okay so forward arpeggio so when I played that I was like well that looks like a pentatonic scale and he's like well basically is a minor pentatonic scale minus a couple notes okay right it's actually a minor Pentatonix it's just adding one note to that arpeggio and you get a minor pentatonic right so that was really easy the minor seventh arpeggio then we go to the um so we have major seven dominant seven minor seventh and then we have minor seven flat five ah these were the basic kind of chord things because these are all the chords that are in a major key this is a minor seven flat five chord okay and the arpeggio let's say that we're going to do this at the fifth fret here so this note's at the fourth fret right there so the arpeggio is this one four two one three one you can do it like this is one way to do it so that would be like this but minor seven arpeggio minor seven flat five minor seven flat five arpeggio now like I said all this stuff is in my biato book all of it's in my biato ear training this stuff's not in the beginner guitar course although those first five positions the major scale are that's basically the end of it and um and it's all part of my quick lessons because a lot of the licks that I do are based out of these particular arpeggios and scale shapes so that chord sounds like that [Music] or you could do it this is interesting the fingering that I have here is this one flat three flat five flat seven one flat three flat five flat seven now that fingering is um is good right it gives you all the notes but I noticed the sound difference from as opposed to here are that notes throatier sounding has darker sound because it's a thicker string [Music] to write that fingering down for you I think it's it's it's a more um I wouldn't say it's a more reliable fingering but I think it's a I think it's an important fingering to to use so I'm going to go back a fret there and then go there and then go back there okay that's your other um minor seven flat five this is your alternate um arpeggio fingering right so [Music] that way that arpeggio is very balanced uh because it has notes on every single string okay this is a thing that I was talking about last week in the Mark Knopfler video and I've talked about many of my videos where I talk about solo about improvising and developing your ear one of the things to recognize is where are fingering where where are things played on your instrument on the piano middle C is only in one spot but on the guitar middle C is in many spots right here right here right here so so if I think about um that note C this note c c c so I've got one two three four five notes to play for middle C [Music] one two three four five where do you play it now this note sounds radically different than that but they are literally the same note listen to the difference that sounds really throaty fat that sounds thin or thinner right doesn't sound bad that notes very different sounding than that even though they're exactly the same note a lot of times you'll see me play I'll play licks like that that use foreign [Music] but the difference in tone between those two notes is so if I have a um let's say I have a chord like this [Music] [Music] [Music] beautiful sound I love that it's called a false fingering it's where you play a note on one string and play the same note on an adjacent string because the this string is thicker it has a thicker sound than that you can hear that okay so uh these type of looks I've I've I teach looks like this in my quick lessons uh guitar course I'm gonna get talk about the sale one more time all of my educational products are on sale for 99 bucks total it's how much what's the savings on this is it 400 something bucks here um it's a 330 dollar savings no it's uh yeah well actually it's a 77 savings 436 dollars if you paid full price for every course you can buy them all for 99 total my biato book interactive these are all online courses my my um biato ear training so you can listen and hear what these chord progressions are and hear and recognize where things are played that's one of the most important things um my quick lessons Pro guitar course in my beginner guitar course um when I met Larry Carlton Larry Carlton is one of my all-time favorite guitar players and um we talked to a Kid Charlemagne it's one of the greatest guitar solos ever and Larry told me that I played the Solo in all the same places that he played them and um that really meant a lot to me and that was um because back then you didn't know where people played things you had to use your ear and listen does it sound like it's on a thinner or thicker string is it possible it's there is it a logical fingering so there's a lot of things that went into this is this is this a logical fingering a simple fingering or is this overly complex and no one would ever play it there so this is the kind of things that I would always weigh when I would be learning a solo figuring it up by ear I would listen for those things you know if I uh I played this lick last week [Music] and I figured Larry probably played it there [Music] because [Music] Sonic fingering okay that [Music] and then that to me was a logical fingering for that if I were to be improvising Like Larry was doing so um uh so you really want to train your ear to hear where things are played this is one of the things about ear training ear training isn't just um ear training isn't just the uh ability to hear things like chord progressions or intervals okay it's also the the ability to hear uh logical like where people play things it's not a thick string is that on a thin string and um and that kind of stuff requires a deeper level of listening and this is why uh in my ear training course why I have all these modules to train your ear it's um it's not enough just to recognize interval relationships if I go and I go duh I know that no it's gonna sound like that because I know a minor third interval and I go da then I go da I know what the notes are going to sound like before I play them not because I have perfect pitch but because I've learned what the interval relationships are from one to another when I hear somebody play I go oh that's a major Triad played in descending third intervals right if someone were to do that or if Mark Knopfler plays I recognize that oh that's an ad for arpeggio starting on the fourth four three done four three root fifth uh four three root flat seven so I know that that's goes with that chord right if I play that chord or if I play this chord [Music] foreign [Music] love those uh those add added fourth sounds and adding them to um adding them to the the basic dominant arpeggio if I play just the A7 if I add the fourth of the scale it's called an add four oh [Music] beautiful sense somebody asked me what oh what that pedal is that I'm using I'm using a freeze pedal here it's by Electro harmonics I don't talk about petals that I use I probably should talk about them more often but when I do my quick lessons that you see on here I am not using a freeze pedal a lot of people ask me that I play the chords on a keyboard with a key keyboard pad sound and the only reason I do that sometimes it's annoying to people I think but it's to to so you hear things in rest reference to the harmony that it's played over that's why I do that it's not to annoy people it annoys me sometimes but um I do that so you can hear when you have a dissonance against a chord if I played this arpeggio over this that note is dissonance once resolved [Music] if I play it against a suspended chord like this [Music] bad note's dissonant but it's a sweet dissonance [Music] foreign I just love that love that sound I love that third [Music] against the fourth as opposed to the [Music] the fourth I like both of them equally the fourth against the Third or the third against the fourth okay that's a that's a um there's ways to make what you play sound better based on what you're playing it over if it creates beautiful distances it is um it it gives a certain richness to what you play okay um when Jimmy Page was playing over stairway last week I talked about when he goes to the uh uh that he ended on that note F because it's the root of the the root of that F major seven chord because it didn't sound foreign for a phrase ending you want to have a root that root there that gives it the end of your phrase power if that makes sense right so I cover all these things between all these educational things that I have that sounds wrong dissonance is um right um uh it all these things are explained in all of my courses right and they all go together the biato book is my music theory interactive course my ear training course is the theory and how to hear how to unders recognize what you're hearing and you're going to develop what I call mentioned it on here many times a vocabulary of recognized sounds when I hear this I know it's a minor seventh chord I don't have to have perfect pitch I know what a minor seventh chord sounds like because I've drilled it in my ear for years I know that's a minor seven flat five that's minor seven flat five that's a diminished seventh chord that's an augmented Major Seventh chord that's a dominant seven sharp V chord this is a minor eleven dominant seven sharp nine sharp five minor nine with the eleventh E minor nine with the eleventh I recognize all of those chords anytime I hear these things if I'm listening to an Alan Holdsworth tune foreign and I hear that chord I know that that's a Minor triad okay that'd be C sharp minor over C with the flat or with the Major Seventh in the bass or I like to call that a dominant chord with the Minor triad a half step above it so right you got a C7 chord and you have a C sharp minor chord or d flat minor over that that would be an allen Holdsworth kind of voicing that he would play a particular scale over okay but uh this is how I uh all the stuff I explain in all these courses beginner guitar course quick lessons Pro which has more advanced kind of linear concepts with it be out of book explains the theory with it and then the ear training course teaches you how to hear it and this also goes with the 1150 free videos that I have on my channel go back to some of the old live streams where I go through these different things I haven't done an hour's worth where I teach all these guitar things like this like how to learn the guitar neck but I have thousands of hours of free stuff on here the reason that you buy the courses 99 bucks is to me a great deal for these things which took me years to create um and I'm not just saying that I think that having the courses helps you to learn how to learn I always tell people that the reason I have a teacher you can't learn everything online you can't just learn from YouTube videos okay you have to you have to have a teacher evaluate your playing okay are you rushing are you dragging are you playing in tune are you playing Out Of Tune whatever it is do you have a good Groove so that's why all of these things are important it's important to learn all this stuff right to have it under your fingers and then it's important to be evaluated and you can even be evaluated by your audience if the audience likes it or doesn't like it maybe they don't get up and clap after your solo Tom just said something about he's dying to hear the Keith Jarrett interview I'm almost done with it I've been working on it for the last three days I've been spending a lot of time um for it Martin thank you so much there is so much knowledge in that package I appreciate it my friend uh so that's it for today I always tell people I learn more than the students learn when I teach stuff like this because I'm thinking about these things um I'm thinking about these things oh somebody said why not stretch positions the stretch positions are in my book three notes per string [Music] I used all those stretch positions you see me that I did them when I'm doing these false foreign spread out positions all the time I just didn't want to do them to confuse you in this because this is quick uh reference a quick reference video for learning the neck major scales which are also minor scales right G major and E minor are the same scales Pentatonix Blues scales basic arpeggios regular three note Triads and seventh chord arpeggios that's it thanks so much for watching everybody have a great weekend go to rickbiato.com and you can get this check out my latest videos watch my Steve lukather video If you haven't seen it yet that's a really great one I made this Frank Sinatra video that no one uh not many people watched maybe not a big a lot of big Sinatra fans out there um but you guys are incredible thank you so much have a great great weekend we'll see you later

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Published: Fri Feb 17 2023