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What helped me immensely was actually learning to play bass before guitar. That honed my ear to listen for the root note of the chords, then I just need to figure out if it's mayor or minor.

Keeos these videos up. I honestly love them.

I didn't really like watching shorts and this is just way better! Keep it up!

this riddle style video is awesome. also i like how you call us guitar chefs, sensei

Brandon making long videos hell yeah 🤜🏻🤛🏻

Thank you brandon😭

thanks brando!

Playing along to songs is a great way to practice this. And yes listening to the bass helps alot too. This does get more complicated though with drop tuned metal though or Jazz

Thanks!!

I actually love how bright F major is. I didnt get it right but every time i play an F chord it blows me away how bright and beautiful it sounds

Thanks for the tips, nice video btw. do you edit them yourself?

0 right … 😐 I honestly struggle to know what note/chord is being played unless I’m playing it myself. I might not be tone deaf but my tonal memory utterly sucks.

Got all of them right

I am like brand new to playing, I can play like 3 riffs and am practicing the pentatonic scale from the video a few days ago. Are there any tips other than just playing a lot more time because this is gibberish to me honestly. Then again almost all music theory words are completely gibberish to me, I spent a while the other night looking over the circle of fifths and think I kind of understand it but still am super lost.

27 seconds in I have to pick up my original 1962 usa strat . dang this guy rocks

I'm surprised that I almost got the 1st and the 3rd

To make it even easier, imagine that the song suddenly ends on one long note. The note you first thought of was probably the same note as the key.

This is useful, but more relevant for beginners. What I wish I could do as an intermediate guitar player would be to instantly figure out the chord progression of a song by ear with minimal effort. Any tips on how to learn that?

It always makes me sad when Brandon tells me to just leave. I learn from this so I come back, but then he tells me to just leave again.

Welp, got the G at least. Good stuff, thanx

Every time I try a song has a "borrowed chord" OR they didn't know theory so it contains whatever.

1:10 But how am I supposed to know what each of the notes sounds like? How do I know the difference between a B, E and F note - for example? I am very analytical and tone-deaf.

Well, I found what every root note was but always was off by a whole step 😅

I got the first one wrong and the second one right, and third one right too, 4th one right too. So 75% accuracy on these easy examples. Whats harder is if you play two unrelated chords on the piano at the same time, and then try to identify those pitches from low to high. Now that’s hard without perfect pitch.

I just play jazz on top of evrrything so eventually ill make the wrong notes the right notes

I got the G one right. No cigarettes for me!

Do the genres of the song determine the key? The first time I heard a metalcore song I thought it was G major but taking a further look into the band, I realize it's a metalcore band and thatt It was e minor, so I was right. Considering Em is basically G maj's "brother"

My two were correct 😅😅-Bm and G maj

for the third example I was like "thats the same chord all the time how would I know what key it's in" i need to cut down on the CIGARETTES!

Why not just test for notes in key signatures? Identify modality first (typically major/minor) and test using the sharps/flats on the circle of 5ths. For example, if the F# or Bb does not feel consonant, then the song is likely in either C major or A minor (of course this does not account for non-diatonic notes like the raised leading tone but its alot faster than checking chromatically)

I dont understand this whole thing. The first example, there were obviously more keys than C minor. Only at the end it returned C minor. For example G sharp major.

I recognized the third one as G "instantly" without having to actually do anything. That was a weird kind of luck I sometimes have. Typically, I use a keyboard in my living room. I don't play keyboard, but I use it to find the keys of songs I want to learn on guitar. But playing a bunch of notes to recognize a key is not "instant" by any understanding of that word I'm familiar with.

But I don't really know what keys are. I am new here

Minor pentatonic frequently sounds good over major chord progressions, so that isn't a great test

I think my ear is broken or something: I kinda got all of them... The first one I got perfectly: C Minor. The 2nd one I got D Major, the relative major key, so kinda right but not really. The last two were the ones that made me think my ear is broken: I didn't get them right, because I was thinking of their 5th instead of the actual key! G Major example? I thought it was D Major. F Major example? I thought it was C Major. To give me some credit, I wasn't using my guitar for these examples, I want to think that I would've probably got them all right if I were, but I was actually practing with a keyboard and didn't want to go grab my guitar for it lol

For us amateurs, why don't you demonstrate the technique used to find the key?

WAIT I ACTUALLY GOT IT

BRO I ONLY GUESSED ONE OF THEM WRONG (without using guitar) i have perfect pitch? ;0

1:12 me a bassist: 👁👄👁

Just look at the lowest note the bass player is playing and call it a day. Leaves more time for cigarettes.

Or asking what keys are 😅

I cheated, i have perfect pitch 😐

Day 10 of asking Brandon to explain relative minor theory

$2400

Dude. Minor pentatonic works over dominant chord. That is a major chord.

You are so rude for a Canadian