WEBVTT 00:00:08.634 --> 00:00:12.455 Now you've got three different ways of playing that sequence 00:00:12.455 --> 00:00:14.434 You can either use shape one and go: 00:00:14.434 --> 00:00:18.305 . . . 00:00:18.305 --> 00:00:19.836 Shape two and go: 00:00:19.836 --> 00:00:24.119 . . . 00:00:24.119 --> 00:00:25.772 or shape three and go: 00:00:25.772 --> 00:00:30.459 . . . 00:00:30.459 --> 00:00:33.297 Now, all of those are cool. They all sound nice. 00:00:33.297 --> 00:00:35.238 And by experimenting a little bit, 00:00:35.238 --> 00:00:38.770 I'm sure you'll find some really cool ways of using those chords. 00:00:38.770 --> 00:00:41.163 But. There is an easy way to do it. 00:00:41.163 --> 00:00:43.021 Now, of course, you don't have to move. 00:00:43.021 --> 00:00:44.973 Those of you who are a little bit observant 00:00:44.973 --> 00:00:47.389 might have noticed that if we've got our G chord 00:00:47.389 --> 00:00:48.609 down here at the third fret, 00:00:48.609 --> 00:00:50.108 . . . 00:00:50.108 --> 00:00:52.330 we also had a C chord around that as well: 00:00:52.330 --> 00:00:54.050 . . . 00:00:54.050 --> 00:00:55.694 I'm going to get a little close up with this in a sec, 00:00:55.694 --> 00:00:57.327 just so you can make sure you get this right. 00:00:57.327 --> 00:00:59.082 But I'll explain it in a wide first. 00:00:59.082 --> 00:01:00.447 So we had G 00:01:00.447 --> 00:01:01.857 . . . 00:01:01.857 --> 00:01:03.633 then we could go to C down here 00:01:03.633 --> 00:01:05.342 . . . 00:01:05.342 --> 00:01:06.435 and then back to G 00:01:06.435 --> 00:01:07.625 . . . 00:01:07.625 --> 00:01:09.370 and our D chord was just behind 00:01:09.370 --> 00:01:10.286 . . . 00:01:10.286 --> 00:01:12.681 So instead of having to jump all around the guitar neck, 00:01:12.681 --> 00:01:17.768 suddenly you can find all of your chords in one shot, in kind of one area of the guitar. 00:01:17.786 --> 00:01:19.610 So that was the first area: 00:01:19.610 --> 00:01:21.999 . . . 00:01:21.999 --> 00:01:23.383 Now, there's a second area too. 00:01:23.383 --> 00:01:26.376 If we had the G chord using the second shape: 00:01:26.376 --> 00:01:28.011 . . . 00:01:28.011 --> 00:01:30.654 then we have C chord using the first shape, just nearby: 00:01:30.654 --> 00:01:31.844 . . . 00:01:31.844 --> 00:01:33.258 back to G chord: 00:01:33.258 --> 00:01:34.219 . . . 00:01:34.219 --> 00:01:35.891 and D chord we can just go back a little bit. 00:01:35.891 --> 00:01:37.148 . . . 00:01:37.148 --> 00:01:39.749 You can hear they're all kind of next to each other. I had a G 00:01:39.749 --> 00:01:41.134 . . . 00:01:41.134 --> 00:01:41.795 C 00:01:41.795 --> 00:01:42.779 . . . 00:01:42.779 --> 00:01:45.083 back to G and down to D 00:01:45.083 --> 00:01:48.038 . . . 00:01:48.038 --> 00:01:50.455 And of course there's a third one, because we've got three shapes. 00:01:50.492 --> 00:01:52.852 there's three different kind of areas that you can play it in. 00:01:52.852 --> 00:01:54.958 First one being up around at the twelfth fret, 00:01:54.958 --> 00:01:56.200 . . . 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:57.095 for the G chord. 00:01:57.095 --> 00:01:58.539 . . . 00:01:58.539 --> 00:02:00.364 Staying around the twelfth fret for the C chord 00:02:00.364 --> 00:02:02.244 . . . 00:02:02.244 --> 00:02:03.117 going back to G 00:02:03.117 --> 00:02:04.006 . . . 00:02:04.006 --> 00:02:06.064 and using D using shape one. 00:02:06.064 --> 00:02:07.364 It's a really cool idea. 00:02:07.364 --> 00:02:10.170 Once you get the idea of how these little things connect with each other, 00:02:10.170 --> 00:02:12.323 you don't have to shift around the neck so much. 00:02:12.323 --> 00:02:14.292 You can choose to shift around if you want. 00:02:14.292 --> 00:02:18.072 Because sometimes it sounds better to do G down here and D right up here, 00:02:18.076 --> 00:02:20.733 but sometimes you don't want to have to shift that far on the guitar 00:02:20.733 --> 00:02:22.860 and be looking and staring at the guitar neck. 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:24.843 Especially if there's some nice girls around that you want to look at, 00:02:24.843 --> 00:02:26.957 you don't want to have to be looking at your guitar to shift about. 00:02:26.957 --> 00:02:29.787 You might want to just shift back to D so you don't have to look. 00:02:29.808 --> 00:02:32.803 So let's go to a close up now and I'll show you the ways of playing 00:02:32.803 --> 00:02:38.470 the G-C-G-D chord sequence, just using one area at a time. 00:02:39.687 --> 00:02:41.607 Here we are for our first G shape 00:02:41.607 --> 00:02:44.336 and this is down the third fret, there's the note G. 00:02:44.336 --> 00:02:46.086 . . . 00:02:46.086 --> 00:02:48.827 Now, rather than sliding up the neck, we've got a C chord 00:02:48.847 --> 00:02:50.109 . . . 00:02:50.109 --> 00:02:53.525 here, using the third shape. There's the root note C. 00:02:53.525 --> 00:02:56.159 . . . 00:02:56.159 --> 00:02:57.361 Then we'd go back to G: 00:02:57.361 --> 00:02:59.492 . . . 00:02:59.492 --> 00:03:01.997 And then if we look nearby, there's the note D, 00:03:01.997 --> 00:03:04.018 . . . 00:03:04.018 --> 00:03:05.280 and there's our little D chord. 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:08.646 So in shapes using the first area, we could have G, 00:03:08.647 --> 00:03:10.434 . . . 00:03:10.434 --> 00:03:10.981 C 00:03:10.981 --> 00:03:13.030 . . . 00:03:13.030 --> 00:03:13.748 G 00:03:13.748 --> 00:03:14.670 . . . 00:03:14.670 --> 00:03:15.701 D 00:03:15.701 --> 00:03:16.571 . . . 00:03:16.571 --> 00:03:19.547 You can see the way that they all just link together. that's obviously 00:03:19.558 --> 00:03:21.641 . . . 00:03:21.641 --> 00:03:22.783 a lot easier, 00:03:22.783 --> 00:03:27.628 . . . 00:03:27.628 --> 00:03:30.005 a lot easier than shifting up and down the neck. 00:03:30.005 --> 00:03:32.048 OK, let's have a look at the second area. 00:03:32.909 --> 00:03:36.465 OK, here we are for the second way of playing through our little sequence. 00:03:36.482 --> 00:03:39.011 The first one we used is the one that looks like a D shape. 00:03:39.037 --> 00:03:40.802 There's the root note there, G. 00:03:40.802 --> 00:03:42.586 . . . 00:03:42.586 --> 00:03:44.184 Now we want a C chord. 00:03:44.184 --> 00:03:47.709 There's a note C, on the thinnest string, so we do shape one: 00:03:47.716 --> 00:03:49.051 . . . 00:03:49.051 --> 00:03:50.580 Then we go back to our G chord 00:03:50.580 --> 00:03:52.050 . . . 00:03:52.050 --> 00:03:57.225 and then we're looking for a D shape, a D chord, rather. There's our note D: 00:03:57.242 --> 00:03:58.308 . . . 00:03:58.308 --> 00:04:01.878 So, we're using kind of the third shape there. So we'd be using here: 00:04:01.878 --> 00:04:02.847 Second shape 00:04:02.847 --> 00:04:04.034 . . . 00:04:04.034 --> 00:04:05.960 To C using the first shape 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:07.145 . . . 00:04:07.145 --> 00:04:08.190 Back to G, 00:04:08.190 --> 00:04:09.350 . . . 00:04:09.350 --> 00:04:12.239 and then using our third shape there for the chord D, 00:04:12.239 --> 00:04:14.489 because there's our root note: D. 00:04:14.489 --> 00:04:16.269 . . . 00:04:16.269 --> 00:04:17.309 Nice one. 00:04:17.309 --> 00:04:26.828 . . . 00:04:26.828 --> 00:04:29.885 OK, here we go for the third one. So this is a G chord again: 00:04:29.907 --> 00:04:31.273 . . . 00:04:31.273 --> 00:04:35.474 Here, this is the third finger on the note G, the root note. 00:04:35.474 --> 00:04:38.271 At the 12th fret, of course, because you can see the double dots there. 00:04:38.271 --> 00:04:39.065 . . . 00:04:39.065 --> 00:04:41.571 There's G. Now, C chord nearby: 00:04:41.587 --> 00:04:43.351 . . . 00:04:43.351 --> 00:04:44.836 Would be done like this, using 00:04:44.836 --> 00:04:47.505 there's the root note there, 2nd string, 13th fret. 00:04:47.505 --> 00:04:48.968 . . . 00:04:48.968 --> 00:04:49.957 Back to G: 00:04:49.957 --> 00:04:51.586 . . . 00:04:51.586 --> 00:04:52.553 And then D. 00:04:52.553 --> 00:04:53.661 . . . 00:04:53.661 --> 00:04:55.828 There's the note D, there's shape one. 00:04:55.840 --> 00:04:56.492 . . . 00:04:56.492 --> 00:04:58.652 Because shape one has the root note on the thinnest string. 00:04:58.659 --> 00:04:59.419 . . . 00:04:59.419 --> 00:05:00.390 So G: 00:05:00.390 --> 00:05:01.746 . . . 00:05:01.746 --> 00:05:03.038 Now, sometimes I finger 00:05:03.038 --> 00:05:04.841 . . . 00:05:04.841 --> 00:05:06.890 using different fingers this time to make my D chord 00:05:06.890 --> 00:05:10.393 Instead of that, you could use this. It doesn't really matter. 00:05:10.413 --> 00:05:12.102 You could even play that first shape like this 00:05:12.102 --> 00:05:12.916 . . . 00:05:12.916 --> 00:05:14.975 Whatever works to you. And then: 00:05:14.975 --> 00:05:16.081 . . . 00:05:16.081 --> 00:05:18.271 There's your D chord. So, G: 00:05:18.271 --> 00:05:19.726 . . . 00:05:19.726 --> 00:05:20.656 C 00:05:20.656 --> 00:05:21.773 . . . 00:05:21.773 --> 00:05:23.153 Back to G 00:05:23.153 --> 00:05:24.282 . . . 00:05:24.282 --> 00:05:25.256 D 00:05:25.256 --> 00:05:28.484 . . . 00:05:29.835 --> 00:05:34.131 OK, what we've covered in this lesson is quite a lot of information 00:05:34.131 --> 00:05:38.290 It's really important that you get to grips with this, these kind of shapes first. 00:05:38.296 --> 00:05:41.041 Being able to find and locate the root note, 00:05:41.041 --> 00:05:44.692 and then be able to put the appropriate shape around the root note. 00:05:44.692 --> 00:05:46.535 The root note is the key here. 00:05:46.535 --> 00:05:48.890 If you don't know where the notes are on the guitar neck 00:05:48.890 --> 00:05:50.755 and you don't know where the root notes are, 00:05:50.755 --> 00:05:52.799 using this technique is going to be really difficult. 00:05:52.799 --> 00:05:56.272 Kind of possible, I suppose, if you just use your ear, but it's really, really hard. 00:05:56.272 --> 00:06:01.073 So, my big advice would be making sure that you get to know the notes on the fingerboard, 00:06:01.073 --> 00:06:05.475 which is discussed on the website and also discussed in my practical music theory book, 00:06:05.475 --> 00:06:10.456 which might be worth a quick look if you are interested in understanding what you're doing. 00:06:11.579 --> 00:06:13.156 That's the fundamental thing. 00:06:13.156 --> 00:06:15.962 The next thing is just to make sure that you are aware of the shapes 00:06:15.962 --> 00:06:19.132 and which note in the shape is the root note. 00:06:19.132 --> 00:06:20.849 For that you can go and check out the website 00:06:20.849 --> 00:06:24.597 where I'll have little diagrams of those three shapes. 00:06:24.597 --> 00:06:28.100 Now, so far we've only looked at G, C and D. 00:06:28.100 --> 00:06:31.114 But it's really important that you're able to find any chord that you'd like, 00:06:31.114 --> 00:06:33.660 and that, again, just relies on the root notes. 00:06:33.660 --> 00:06:36.903 So, if you want to play an A chord, an A triad, then you know, 00:06:36.918 --> 00:06:39.149 "Well, there's an A on the thinnest string." 00:06:39.149 --> 00:06:43.596 so, if I'd use the shape with the thinnest string having the root note, 00:06:43.596 --> 00:06:48.556 I'd use the first shape, which is that little one, with that little barre with the first finger. 00:06:48.556 --> 00:06:50.744 So that would be an A chord up here at the 5th fret. 00:06:50.756 --> 00:06:51.890 . . . 00:06:51.890 --> 00:06:55.142 That same shape at the 9th fret would be a C# chord. 00:06:55.142 --> 00:06:56.363 . . . 00:06:56.363 --> 00:06:57.492 They all just move around, 00:06:57.492 --> 00:07:01.067 so it's getting that understanding where the root is and finding the shape, 00:07:01.067 --> 00:07:02.997 is really, really key important. 00:07:02.997 --> 00:07:07.295 Now, those of you -- It's a little challenge part for you. 00:07:07.295 --> 00:07:11.107 Now, if you want to learn the minor triads, 00:07:11.107 --> 00:07:14.941 so the same three shapes that I've just shown you, but the minor ones. 00:07:14.941 --> 00:07:16.527 Those of you who have done a little bit of music theory, 00:07:16.527 --> 00:07:20.072 will know that the only difference between a major chord and a minor chord 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:23.732 is that the minor chord has a flattened third. 00:07:23.732 --> 00:07:27.054 Now, in this case, that note would be B, 00:07:27.054 --> 00:07:30.592 because a G major chord was G, B, D. 00:07:30.592 --> 00:07:36.387 So, Gm chord is going to have the notes G, Bb and D. 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:40.956 So, your little task now is to go and figure out, from those three shapes, 00:07:40.956 --> 00:07:44.966 which one's the root note, which one's the third, i.e. the note B, 00:07:44.966 --> 00:07:48.122 and which one's the fifth, which is the note D. 00:07:48.122 --> 00:07:53.580 Once you've done that, if you lower the degree that is the third by one semitone 00:07:53.580 --> 00:07:58.341 you get your three minor type triads, which I'm going to show you from wide shots, 00:07:58.341 --> 00:08:00.120 so you can't cheat too much. 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:00.580 . . . 00:08:00.580 --> 00:08:01.852 You'd have here Gm 00:08:01.852 --> 00:08:02.617 . . . 00:08:02.617 --> 00:08:03.821 You'd have the Gm here 00:08:03.821 --> 00:08:04.775 . . . 00:08:04.775 --> 00:08:08.658 And you'd have a Gm right at the 12th fret as well. 00:08:08.658 --> 00:08:10.860 So, they are really similar looking, you know, 00:08:10.860 --> 00:08:16.553 It's only one note moved one fret back between the major shapes and the minor types. 00:08:16.553 --> 00:08:17.527 Minor shapes. 00:08:17.527 --> 00:08:20.733 So, it's really important now for you to do a little bit of homework, 00:08:20.733 --> 00:08:24.787 and figure out what the notes are in each of those triad shapes that I've shown you. 00:08:24.787 --> 00:08:28.427 work out which note is the note B, flatten it, 00:08:28.430 --> 00:08:30.249 and then you've got all your minor types. 00:08:30.249 --> 00:08:33.370 I want to leave discussing minor triads and the other ones for a little while 00:08:33.370 --> 00:08:37.876 to make sure that you actually work it out, because if you if you learn this stuff yourself, 00:08:37.884 --> 00:08:41.505 you're going to find it a lot more beneficial than if just I spoon feed it to you. 00:08:42.922 --> 00:08:44.865 Hopefully, that's more than your brain, 00:08:44.865 --> 00:08:48.121 You know, hopefully your brain is getting a bit sore now from all of this information. 00:08:48.141 --> 00:08:51.507 The big deal now is go and use it and to understand it. 00:08:51.527 --> 00:08:53.381 So figuring out what the notes are 00:08:53.381 --> 00:08:55.998 and get cracking trying to put it into this chord sequence we're doing. 00:08:55.998 --> 00:08:59.978 Jam with it as much as you can, and then try just picking another song, I don't know: 00:08:59.992 --> 00:09:01.862 "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd. 00:09:01.862 --> 00:09:05.374 it's got, you know, pretty basic kind of chord structure. 00:09:05.374 --> 00:09:09.080 So why not have a go at seeing if you can work out all your triad shapes for that song. 00:09:09.092 --> 00:09:12.205 Get your mate to play the rhythm guitar and use the triads over the top. 00:09:12.205 --> 00:09:13.513 Or, just play the record. 00:09:13.513 --> 00:09:16.799 You know, put the CD on and then try and play along with it 00:09:16.816 --> 00:09:19.238 using your new found triad skills. 00:09:19.238 --> 00:09:21.493 It really sounds great as a second guitar part. 00:09:21.493 --> 00:09:26.901 Really cool for jamming and really, really useful kind of mind expanding lesson 00:09:26.901 --> 00:09:30.738 if you go through and work out where the notes are and you understand the concept. 00:09:30.738 --> 00:09:34.377 If you don't subscribe, -- please hit that -- please go and check out the web site, 00:09:34.377 --> 00:09:40.223 lots of information there on this and a whole lot more as you probably know already. 00:09:40.223 --> 00:09:43.154 Worth a look if you haven't gone and checked it out already. 00:09:43.154 --> 00:09:45.842 See you again for some more lessons, sometime in the near future. 00:09:45.842 --> 00:09:48.706 Take care of yourselves and I'll see you soon.