What I Wish I Knew My First Year Of Playing - Guitar Chord Theory

[Music] hey what's up you guys Marty Schwartz here with Marty music thanks for hanging out and supported in the channel right here I'm gonna do another video based on what I wish I learned my first year of guitar playing but didn't and this one has to do with basic chord theory I think it's gonna help you also I have a whole course called Marty uncaged which is kind of like the evolution of what I'm about to teach you and have a link for it in the first comment and in the info box and I really appreciate that extra support but anyway let's get to it alright this is a real basic concept but there's a deep rabbit hole that you can dive down to dive down into this is kind of like a theory lesson I guess you could say so when I was a beginner I knew a D chord right and I knew an E chord and I just kind of thought of him as shapes I didn't really think about theory behind it I was just having fun strumming chords but this is something that started a little lightbulb and then I started to investigate more into this stuff so I want to introduce it to you very easy if I took this D major chord and forget about the open strings just the fingers that are down it's three notes in fact if I have to open it's still just three notes cuz the D is right here on the B string as opposed to the open D they're both in there repeating so we're gonna forget the open string we're just the three notes of this D chord [Music] what blew my mind is I learned that if you just scoot it up a whole-step without learning a new shape I'm now playing whatever the next letter up is in that in the musical alphabet so this is D major I move it up whole step it's now E major and watch if I hit a open e in there you'll hear how they match up open D that continues this is d-major up a whole-step is a major half-step to F because E and F in music on any instrument e to F is only a half step so half step to F now I've made so these three notes are the same repeating three notes right here of this F they're just in a different register but that's still the same notes so that's d e passed up to F whole step to G whole step to a same three notes higher register but the same three whole step to B B to C is a half step so half step to C whole step to D again now this comes in handy like I said it's gonna start to open your mind about the actual theory behind this stuff but a great example of where this happens is over the hills and far away by Led Zeppelin there's a part if I kind of deconstructed what that was by climbing up I'd realize that this is G up to a [Music] now another cool thing is when you're playing with another guitar player if you knew a few other of these concepts which really is basically the cage to this system you can now start to play in a more ensemble style with another guitar player as opposed to just echoing everything they do well guitar player is playing a big full G you could do a little shimmery G up here [Music] like that now another concept is if this is D major up a whole-step to E major if I play the D minor shape I move it up a whole-step it is now yes II minor [Music] so that means if I moved up d-minor whole step would be a minor half step would be F minor whole step would be G minor whole step would be a minor [Music] whole step would be b-minor let's see if these three notes sound like match up with the B minor that I know down here hint they do alright now the other thing is it does work with every chord shape you know in fact if you pretended that you had to press your finger down on the this nut to get the open strings and I wanted to play an E major chord I would have to voice it this way with these fingers and you see that that concept is the basic bar chord concept so E major half step cuz e to F is a half step so F major f to G's a whole step so that to GE see if it matches up with this G they do whole step up to a G's to last in the musical alphabet before it starts over at a and slip the B half step to C and speed of C is always a half step D to e you know so if I wanted to play E minor but I had to pretend to press that down you have the minor Barre chord E minor F minor G minor a minor B minor C minor D minor E minor the same things gonna work with the a minor a major right so hopefully I get your brain working a little bit and you know leave questions below and we'll you know I'll try and answer and also other people hopefully will will join in the discussion to help some of this basic theory stuff all right there was thanks again you guys also remember I have a link for my Mardi encaged course there from Marty music thanks again for hanging out and supporting feel free to leave the comments below and you know interact on some of these concepts and I hope to see you again real soon see you later [Music] [Music]

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Length: 7min 50sec (470 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 02 2018