This Simple Pattern Tells You Every Chord In Every Key (this blew me away!)

welcome to your corridor get our lesson of the week today I'm gonna show you a pattern on the fret board that's going to help tremendously to find out which cards are in any major or minor key I have met with an old teacher of mine in the last days it's been several years since I last saw him and he said Antoine you've got to learn this trick I've been teaching it to my new students in the last month and it does wander for them to understand harmonization quicker and better and at first I was really skeptical way to learn about harmonization is to learn your scales your tones and semitones and the other order of the chords in a harmonization you have to learn this by heart usually so let's say I am in the key of C major I have to know my whole C major scale to in order to be able to take that scale and make chords on each of the notes but in order to master this you have to know your tones and semitones so how the scale goes it's like tone tone semitone tone tone semitone tone and then you need to know that the first chord is major and then it's minor minor major major minor diminished and major it's like whoa whoa slower please it's like too much at the same time but it's how we usually learn harmonization right and if you learn like that it's good for you because you can memorize the order of the notes and the structures of the chords but you get comfortable in the key you're practicing in and that's the problem you are going to get comfortable in C major and then if I ask you to play in the key of let's say a flat major you are going to be lost you are going to be okay I don't know where I am at right now so the pattern I am teaching you right now you can know in any key and super easily so let's say we stay in the key of C major we are going to locate the C note on the sixth string so it is here on the eighth fret from that point you are going to play a simple power chord like this so you play your index on the eighth fret of the sixth string and then your ring finger on the tenth fret of the fifth string and then we are going to play an extra note that is going to be on the fifth string just below your fretted note on the sixth string so you are going to play this like this so C F G in our case one four five if we count the note of the scale it's one four five right so this little pattern is super simple but super important so this is our first pattern what we are going to do now is to go down three frets so one two three so now we are on the fifth fret and we are going to repeat the same exact pattern so the same notes at the same place so now we have this here and three frets higher one two three we have the same pattern and now we just need one more note we still keep our ring finger and we play the note on the sixth string here so now we have this then three frets down and this note here so by doing this we end up having all the notes of our C major scale right I have c d e f g a b and going back to C so I I have all seven notes and what is wonderful with these patterns is now all the chords are pre organized for you so in this first pattern here starting from C we know that the first note we play here is our root note so it tells what is our key so now we know that we are in the key of C major because we start on C right here so the first pattern of three notes are going to be your major chord so if you build a chord from each of those notes you are going to build C major F major and G major so and then the pattern which is three frets below you are going to build minor chords only so now you have a d e so you are going to build a minor D minor and E minor and the loan no that was here that little B is the exception this is going to be the diminished chord so you have this major this is going to be minor structures and then you have your diminished as the only missing note [Laughter] super easy to want to understand to locate and to remember and now you know all the court structures in a c-major key right so if I play all the chords not in our pattern order but in the regular order you have you have all your seven chords in the harmonization and you didn't have to memorize anything aside from this little little pattern this is blowing my mind because this is an easy trick and you can be more fluent in any key right now so let's say that you learn it you usually learn your harmonization in C major right and you are confused when you need to pick up a different key that is less used like I say let's pick the key of a flat major sometimes it's hard to know where you're at but now with this little trick you can do it so you locate your a flat note on the sixth string which is on the fourth fret you do your little pattern so now you know that these three notes are going to build major chords so you automatically know that the three major chords in the key of a flat major are a flat D flat major and E flat major and then if you want to know the rest of the chords you go three frets down from this point one two three and then you play your little pattern so now we have F B flat and C so you know that the minor chords in the key of a flat major are going to be F minor B flat minor and C minor and then the little note that is missing here is going to be a diminished chord so we are going to have a G diminished so in the key of a flat major this is really easy you have and if you want to play them in order super easy but now maybe you're thinking okay that's right now I can know any chord in any major key but what do I do for minor keys because you say you start from your root note you know that it's your major key and then you do your pattern but it doesn't work for minor yes it works for minor you just have to do the opposite so let's say I want to know what are the chords in the key of C minor right so I'm gonna start here and do the same pattern but now I know that my root note is in minor so these three chords are going to be minor chord so I'm going to have C minor F minor and G minor right but now instead of going three frets down we are going to go three frets up it's logical right because now we are doing the opposite so I have these three and then I start from my C and I go one two three so from this point I do the same pattern again but now it's gonna be major chords you and don't forget that the little diminish note is always going to be on the pattern of your minor chords right so if I start here and I have my minor chord it means that the little added note with my ring finger is still going to be around the minor chords so my diminished chord is going to be here so the chords for C minor in the key of C minor are going to be right because of my pattern and the little note and you don't even have to start from the sixth string you could start from anywhere so let's say you want to find it in the key of D major if you start here maybe it's going if it's very up on the fret board it's a little bit restraint to play some Barre chords so you could play your D note on the fifth string so my index and note is on the fifth fret of the fifth string and play the same pattern and then I could build my chords my major chords from here and then three frets down and play my minor chords from here and then my little diminished chord so in the key of D major if I don't want to play here I can play here I know all the chords so I hope this is very helpful to you this is blowing me away that I didn't know that before but this is a great way to learn harmonization that being said this is a quick easy way this is a little shortcut but there are many benefits to learn it by heart and know your tones and semitones and know the structure of the courts by really studying it so if you want to go further you can check out my free mini course by clicking on the first link in the description box in this course I am teaching you ambient guitar chords which are spread triads and the second module we are studying harmonization so I make you find the chords of your harmonization so you are more fluent to play any chord in any key without having to rely on any kind of trick so if you want to go further go sign up for my free mini course it's completely for free it's my gift to you so you should take it alright thank you very much for watching my lesson and until next time au revoir

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Length: 11min 58sec (718 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 28 2020