Very true! Guitar is so hard to understand the fretboard at first, but if you figure it out the way you did, it's actually so good for visualizing theory!

Works on piano too...but really, you don't need to memorize much of anything. Simply being able to count to 4 and understand how triads are built usually gets people supercharged in their understanding..

Great video As I am concerned , I shall have to watch it several times to get the main out of it. Thank you so much I’ll follow you in the future.

Sooo close! I think you were just about to get to the part where I show my circle of 5ths trick to do it way more easily!

I am delighted to hear that and thanks so much for taking the time!

Thanks so much for the nice comment, I really appreciate it!

Thank you, and I love that one too!

Thanks so much, and I couldn’t believe that trick existed when I learned it because I was already playing and being a theory nerd for like 20 years before I learned it and I couldn’t believe it was right there under our noses the whole time! Thanks for watching and for the nice comment!😊

Thanks so much for that, it makes me happy to hear it!

Thanks for taking the time to comment!

Thanks Dan! I'm just starting to make videos that are slightly less terrible in quality, and I'm starting to get some more views as a result, so hopefully I'm on the right track! I appreciate your taking the time to comment!

Thanks so much for watching!

I know… right? Thanks!

True! That would work for sure, or even just fish around for the notes by ear until the scale sort of materializes through trial and error! And the key of A has 3 sharps, but an A chord could also potentially be from 2 sharps (A mixolydian/D major) or 4 sharps (a Lydian/Emajor) depending on the context, but if you do what you said I think you’ll find it, and I also agree to go by ears as final authority!

It's not related to a particular book, but I'll have to google it! Thanks!

@@fretboardIQ cool cool, thanks, great video and definitely check the book out you get the chance. Good stuff

Yes - from a video production standpoint, it was not really an option to NOT include that clip, once it was determined to exist!

@@fretboardIQ Thank you for bringing fire down from the mountain, Sir! Humanity may still have a chance if more people see this footage. It might stir something inside them that they thought was lost forever. They just needed a glimpse of what is possible. 🙏🔥🔥🔥

also really great analysis on the outlier cases. I'll get to try your method as soon as I have time with my instrument!!

First of all thanks for the thoughtful comments! I was hoping my approach was at least slightly unique and it makes me happy that you actually get what I'm talking about in there!

Thanks for the really insightful point! It could just as well be Bb bc it’s parent scale, and actually maybe I should have said that way! bc I was trying to illustrate modal borrowing where it has chords from G minor mixed with chords from G major, so I was basically thinking “in G”, but I should have put Bb parent scale in brackets or something at least bc I keep going on about “parent major scales!” Good point!

Thanks for that, and I know what you mean! I am slowly learning to put a half decent video together, but I think it’s better if I don’t try to cover ‘everything’! Thanks a lot for the thoughtful comment!

Oo! I’ll try!

Thanks! I suppose I can type it in music notation software, but my Mac doesn’t seem to support it ‘natively’. And then there’s the half-diminished symbol that I would also love to use, but alas I always end up typing m7(b5). 🙏

I hear you! And many people do learn to do all this stuff just by ear, and really the theory is basically just names and labels for everything! I hope you saw the circle of fifths part bc that’s the part where you can usually find the key without all of the calculating!

I'm basically expecting a mix, partially because I'm really just getting started making these and I'm trying to find my audience! But I do think I see your point that the theory seems kind of advanced, but then my idea was to show how cool it is that the circle of fifths trick kind of does it all for you! But I think I can learn something from your comment bc I can either make whole videos more clearly for defined beginners, or intermediate, or if I am trying to cover different levels, I can try to make the structure more clear! but honestly I just thought the video makes more sense if I went through the underlying theory first, and then give the 'hack' to kind of sidestep all that, so people feel relieved that they can just use the circle method instead or until they learn the theory! Thanks a lot for the comment!

Well. I come from 5 decades of violin. We don't have Chords or a circle of 5ths. So yes having picked up guitar 4 years ago and already published 2 songs I am beginner as many are of sorts. Many picked up guitar to learn a song and now want to learn the instrument.

My theory was sort of less work than ear training for me as well! That’s funny bc my next video I just started writing is about ear training tips for guitarists! Keep at it and thanks so much for the thoughtful comment!

@@fretboardIQ Great I'll be looking forward to that.

True, I didn’t go into that. I had to already cut so much stuff out for this topic which is just what scales fit over what chords. I have a diploma in jazz performance and so I know what you’re talking about like actually playing over the changes (and especially doing it well on the fly!). But my master’s is in classical, and that’s more my wheelhouse so I’m really unlikely to make any really serious jazz improv videos bc I’ll have too much imposter syndrome!

Thanks!

It works for me. Maybe just too much for one lesson?

Listen at 1.25 speed

@@paulysguitarjournal its not the speed its the useless chatter

Fair enough, but this is one of my best performing video - sorry to see you go but this style does a lot better than just a shot of me talking apparently! Thanks for the comment!