This video made me all warm and fuzzy inside! Love it and you dude!

great vid! for me Guthries explanation in one of his clinics really changed how i approached the instrument. "Are you playing what you're singing or singing what you're playing". Most songwriters like Clapton, Gilmour, Knopfler or Mayer tend to be more expressive with the guitar because they ARE actually playing what they're singing in their head. So i guess when you start recognizing those intervals you sing, on your fretboard, it's a real game changer. Even humming a simple melody and then trying to piece it together on the fretboard goes a long way. Thx for the upload!

Dude. The amount of content in this video is out of control...literally years worth of lessons/college/gigging/playing in a half hour. Well done explaining it all, absolutely love it. Kids if all the music jargon scares you, go read a book and come back to this video in a year and you'll be glad you did. Keep up the awesome work man! Playing is sick!

My tiny ipad speakers are struggling to reproduce your drop e voice

JACK, i have been in need of this lesson for over 4 years. I am a pentatonic box and 3NPS warriror and i just didn't know how to get out of it. None of my guitar teachers ever told me that the perfect 5 interval doesn't really contain harmonic information. The sauce is made by root third and seventh! I am definetily buying your one chord improvisation lesson!!! You are literally my guitar saviour. Thanks dearly :)

Youve captured all the knowledge it took me to acquire over several years in just 30 mins. Beautifully clear and well presented. Great to see you back on KZfaq with brilliant content. Thank you!

Coming back to this video two years after seeing it and I have so much of a better understanding of everything you are talking about. You've really jammed a ton of topics and knowledge into this video. It's kind of a masterclass in a way with enough things to work on for years. Thank you!

First thought: [Groan] 32 minutes......And I was enthralled and total captivated. Given me a reason for why I'm spending so much time on theory and knowing my instrument

I stopped playing guitar for about 4 years. Coming back after that break, I’ve started approaching the fretboard with this expanded mindset about 7 months ago, and my improv has expanded immensely. Thank you for this video, it helped shed a lot of light onto why I can interpret the songs within much clearer now.

This is one of my all time most influential lessons. This is well laid out, well taught, but has core knowledge of intervals and 7th chords that is indispensable. I must sound like an advertisement. No, just a guy that was ready for this kind of voicing stuff, and I appreciate the professionalism that went into it. You can teach, Jack. You made a great lesson plan and presented it perfectly for the interval impaired like me.

Thank you for posting videos like this, I watch things like this on my way to and from work and during my breaks to learn theory because if I'm lucky I only get about 2 hours of actual practice a day at home

I just came across this video. I've seen many of your post playing. I have played for a long time but lack information like this. It's complicated at first to learn but bits and pieces are starting to connect. I can't thank you enough for this video. You are a good man.

Some years ago I randomly caught Tom Q. playing via some KZfaq vid & immediately being transfixed not only by how many different styles he was able to play, improvise & sound so well with, but above all the control he displayed with the instrument was mesmerizing! I knew then that I needed to seriously re-examine my technique. Something I had long thought I already had mostly in the bag for what I was looking to accomplish musically. It was quite a wake up call imo and I’m so glad I was exposed to his monster talent. If I could pick any guitarist to directly learn from and be taught by it would have to be Quayle!

Mate this was very very helpful 👍🏻 After 30 years of playing by ear pretty well, I've just realised what I need to learn. I really can't thank you enough mate. Epiphany ain't in it...joy 😊

You beaut, this is exactly what I'm working on now but didn't know where to start. Great lesson structure and even better for keeping it simple. Thanks dude

Absolutely spectacular, Jack. Thanks so much for sharing this.

Great video bro! Love the blues section!

Been playing guitar for 10 years and been stuck in pentatonic scale for the same amount of time. Lately I started relearning guitar and unconsciously started visualizing intervals without knowing it was an actual thing. I feel great to know I'm heading in the right direction. Great video!

This is one of the few longer lesson videos that I watched in entirety. Not to mention I’m watching it while at work, lol. Very cool information, and I’m looking forward to getting home later and playing around with it. Thanks, Jack!

Epic lesson and very helpful. This is what I needed 30 years ago when I started playing and you shred by the way. Thank you!

I appreciate the immediate clarification of it not being about Aaron, and do also agree that he's a legend.

Thanks for this, you’re right the interval approach is the way to go. I purchased the tq fretboard visualisation course a couple of years ago and it was a real eye opener and a light bulb type moment after playing for years. I don’t think scale shapes at all, just knowing the structure of the scale and where the intervals are in relation to the root means I can go all over the fretboard. Thanks again.

It’s bonkers coming back to guitar after studying almost any instrument. You do a great job explaining what is basically day one of any music theory course, but I forget how little theory guitarists tend to learn. This def isn’t modern (Insert an classical musician), but for guitarists it probably is. Earned a sub.

Tom turned me onto intervalic visualization as well, excellent way to free yourself. I like to combine caged (just using the root/octave locations) and overlay intervals on the root. Great lesson and it reminds me I need to get back to some ear training.

Thanks Jack, I've been working on learning my intervals after seeing you and another jazz player recommending it and I'm still at the beginning but I have to say it makes so much more sense now to me than going by any shape system.

Yessss! Preach it brother 😻 interval function shapes ftw 🤟🏻💪🏻

I had come across this video before (and Tom Quayle's video) about visualizing the fretboard by "numerical formula/intervallic function", but initially never watched either beyond maybe three minutes, due to me being naturally impatient. What a huge mistake on my part. I finally got around to watching Tom's video in it's entirety. I was so mindblown, that I immediately dug up and watched this from start to finish. After which I proceeded to smack myself in the forehead for being a stubborn impatient idiot back then. After that, I binge-watched both videos AGAIN! I'm pretty excited to re-learn the fretboard in this manner. I don't have to discard what I've learned before per se, but simply apply this concept to visualize the scale/chord shapes that I am familiar with in a new way. Thank you so much Jack Gardiner and Tom Quayle!

I've watched Tom's lesson a few years back and it was life changing.. 🤘

This is amazing! I agree we owe you money. I have been trying to reprogram to CAGED and it’s slow. I love your description of a perfect 5th. I learned it as complete and incomplete chord,but I like the simplicity of the potato chord interval! I love Tom,Rick(both Ricks) and am a new subscriber now Jack. Thank you 🙏

Great lesson Jack. I actually took a masterclass with Tom Quayle @the IMS in NC USA a few years ago and he is phenomenal. Love your strandberg and I’m getting one this Christmas 🎄.

Wow. Recently discovered you when I was researching the Strandberg. Just three weeks ago I started counting the notes of the pentatonic licks and runs that I do on auto pilot from muscle memory. The reason I started counting the intervals was to better understand why some things naturally sound good against the One while other things sound good against the four. I was trying to get out of the box and start hunting for third because I know already that the third gives a chord it's flavor and mood. Rick Beatos ear training uses the same sort of player that this toned ear site uses. I know because I bought and enrolled in Rick's course because I too am a fan. Now I will use the toned ear to help me train daily for Rick's tests. Just now I went to the site and ran a quiz. First time ever using it and I answered 64 out of 73 correctly for an 87 percent. That's because I Rick beato is training me to hear intervals. The way I train in Rick's program is I put the guitar in my hand and listen to the interval question on Rick's site. Then I find the notes on my guitar to help my make sense of what I'm hearing. Next I sing the individual notes that make up the interval on my guitar in order to make a strong internal connection to the tones. Then I answer the interval question. This method has without a doubt improved my improvising and understanding of intervals. I use the cage system to map the one third and fifth of the cord, that way if I'm up the neck in bar two of a 12 bar blues I know I'm on the one and headed for the four that is right next to that third. The cord map of triads usually puts the third on the next string down from the one and the fifth is usually up above the one. Thinking in this interval fashion is changing my whole approach to playing guitar. Sorry for the ramble bro, just trying to make sense of this stuff. Started listening to you music. That's deep stuff. I'm a new fan. Cheers Mate

After 23 years of rambling and meandering, which included 10 years of just mechanical training with no real direction or focus, am finally coming to start studying them standards. Dear Jack, your lesson is an ear opener and a whole new way of understanding intervals. Thank you so much. You have an incredible way of teaching and should continue to enlighten us more. Thank you so much again :)

Subscribed because this is just what I've been looking for as a starting detail oriented guitar player.

Brilliant. I was expecting a rehash of what I've already learned but nope. You launched into CAGED and I thought, aww here we go again. Nope. This was incredibly new and you teach it so well. You seem like a super cool dude too.

We are owning you money for this. All of us. Stunning content.

When I started learning piano after 10 years of guitar the harmonic complexity and variation totally blew my mind, it still does! My guitar playing also almost instantly improved 🤖👍 Learning bass also taught me the importance of string choice in relation to tone in addition to reharmonisation. bottom line - play more instruments! And try out loopers, samplers and percussion/drums... Oh and definitely sing! 😎✌️

You have a real knack for explaining this stuff mate. Would love to see more lesson/theory stuff from you! Cheers.

Super informative! Like how you throw in the background info to illustrate the point. Works great. Subbed.

Thank's! you are such a great player and with this beautiful talent to share so that I can understand! 90% of people on youtube talk as if the audience already knew it all? I can understand everything you explain! That gives me lust to learn. That is truly inspiring! :)

Amazing video, Jack. Thanks for this. Do not underestimate your skills as a teacher - your pacing and demeanour make it easy to follow. (Reminds me of Guthrie Govan’s teaching style)

Thanks for making this video Jack!

Very helpful insight and details man! Thank you! Also wanted to say I can see your passion and joy for music as you speak on all this and it’s awesome. 👍🏽🤘🏽😊

So happy I discovered your channel. Will be watching all of your videos for the next few months. I'm already way better at melodic minor improv thanks to u. Liked and subscribed

Can’t believe I’m still discovering great teachers here on KZfaq thought I found them all .. SUBBED!

Amazing dude. Also love the quality of the video!

Woah man.. watching this has changed the way I see the fretboard, i'm definitely going to be focusing on those big juicy harmonic notes. Thank you so much for making this video :)

Tom is frightening and so are you Jack! Learning a lot from you lately!

Just stumbled onto you and watched this whole lesson. Great stuff Jack! 🙌🏽

Wow!! Thanks so much. This lesson is packed with so much. Extremely helpful. Just made huge strides. Thanks Jack! Im going to get some more practice and look forward to getting in touch once I’m a bit further.

I had a nightmare when I was a kid and I swear it was you that was in it! You chased me to the end of a cliff - pulled a guitar out of nowhere and started riffing so hard I lost my balance and fell to my doom. It was absolutely you Mr Gardner. Weird!

Great video Jack, thank you. I really love the way you explain, great voice and pronounciation. So sophisticated! Thank you!

Brilliant video and totally spot on!

Thanks you for this is a great lesson, finally something that’s not some 5 minute bullshit lick. I’ve had a conversation about this concept with my teacher before but didn’t totally grasp it, this really helps cement the idea. Again thank you!

Amazing lesson! And with a friendly smile all along. Great stuff

Just blowned away by this approach! Gob bless you man!

three years of learning guitar on youtube and I have NEVER seen this dude! Where there hell have I been! Damn you Marty!

Amazing lesson! Thanks a lot!

Clear and concise. I can finally work to brake free from the box shapes. Great vid and subbed thanks jack

🙏🙏THANK YOU!!!! This has really opened my eyes!

Thank you Jack. Your a great teacher and you articulate so well. Cheers!

Great clip on intervals. Need to watch again to make sure I absorbed all. Mathematical way to recall the sound per note regardless of key. Thanks.

food for thought, thanks alot, nice job brother

Thanks for sharing Jack that was really useful information

I have Tom's Fretboard visualization course, an amazing course by the way, however, this type of information can not be repeated often enough, so I came here, and watched your entire video, and I've actually learned something that is not covered in Tom's course, which is, to concentrate my efforts on R-3-7 kinda chords (as opposed to R-3-5-7), because the 5 has no extra "meaningful" information to provide, and also to avoid forming chords that contain notes on 6th and 5th strings simultaneously, as they tend to sound "muddy". Thank you very much for the lesson!

So amazing and easily explained, it's no wonder he is a genius, thanks again Jack

Priceless content, thank you for sharing

I’m starting to see it...about to dig through your channel for more! New fan here man, great stuff.

This is a brilliant lesson, many thanks!

Best explanation of intervals I have come across to date. I got a bit lost with the shell chord section, but I need to absorb the first half of this video and then return to the second half when the osmosis process has terminated. Great to hear it in my native accent too; made me homesick for the Mersey. 😉

Such excellent explanations and an intuitive way of laying things out. Thank you!

One of the best videos on You Tube. Should be required watching.

Jack! Such a valuable lesson. Really love your phrasing too. Well done!

This is a great lesson man! Thank you, been playing for years and just now got into theory.

JACK, I first saw your videos when I was learning and you always lost me half way through every time after a few years of being a bassist and drilling guitar in my free time and returning to your videos they help me SOOOO MUCH the, your lessons are amazing and so approachable i just needed soem damb chops to manifest the desire to drill things besides rythym and chugs, and you've just helped my chugs sound better with added fills of appregios, (sweeps (badstill haha)) and so many other thing and just thanks

Great video, thanks for posting

Man you're teaching skills is awesome... You're genius 👍🏻

fantastic Jack thanks!!

Great video Jack! You perfectly got the point :) Love all the new educational material. Keep on doing it!

Loving your videos Jack your patient explanations really are landing thank you

One of the best lessons I've ever seen. Thank you.

Jack you'r are true inspiration!! thank you for this much of beautiful information

Love this thinking! Not just "playing guitar" but playing music on the guitar :)

you could bring up your talking volume a bit UP

Brilliant. Thanks buddy. 👍🏻

This is THE approach! Patterns are such a hindrance.. Time with the instrument and knowing how the music you are playing/want to play "works" is what gets you there. Your playing is lovely, Jack. Great phrasing and especially expression, bends and vibrato are luscious. I think you are on a very similar level to Tom Quayle, I prefer your phrasing :)

This is solid gold right here folks

This was a really good lesson THANK YOU!!!

Fantastic lesson Jack. Thanks from NZ. 🙏🏼

I've always played this way and can fly over the fretboard, intuitively throw my hands on chords that I've never played etc. Its because i use my ears all the time when playing. Sure I know tons of Yngwie and Satriani licks from muscle memory but its when you understand how these work and you just reapply then in another part of the scale, or a different mode, that it becomes organic and takes you elsewhere. Music is emotion. Nothing more, so let the music speak. This *IS* the way - its how all jazz players work and most classical musicians too.

Great video and excited for your masterclass to come out! You are a great teacher

I've watched this video a couple times and I'm thinking this could be the way for me. Thank you , Jack. I'm going for your course on Musicisum.

Just getting into your vids Jack and I'm really loving them.

Currently learning tom quayles fretboard visualization and it is killer!

Excellent lesson, very informative. Will definitely be putting these into practice. You sir have earned yourself a subscribe. Thank you!

Great video dude, very clear and easy to understand useful information! Cheers

never learned the CAGED system from a teacher or YT. I actually fell into the system myself. 3/string is basically brand new though, and I love it. Thanks Jack!

Amazing stuff Jack. Monster of a player.

Very well presented. Lots of info given in an interesting and easy to follow way. Thank you. Love Tom Quayle’s playing. Off to check out your site and Tom’s site now.

very useful thank you Jack, for your generosity

You seriously helped so many with this video, my man. Thank you!