Little more specific timestamps (because I might come back to this video later): 1. Musical Alphabet 02:19 - 02:42 2. Musical Staff 02:43 - 02:58 3. Knowing the Fretboard 02:59 - 03:14 4. Scale Shapes and the Major Scale 03:15 - 03:49 5. Rhythm Basics 03:50 - 04:11 6. Triplets, Swing, and Advanced Tuplets 04:12 - 04:38 7. Meter and Time Signature 04:40 - 05:15 8. Audiation and Melody 05:16 - 05:54 9. Key Signatures and Enharmonics 05:55 - 06:47 10. Scale Degrees 06:48 - 07:26 11. Triads 07:27 - 07:51 12. Movable Chords 07:52 - 08:09 13. Diatonic Major Chords + Roman Numerals 08:10 - 08:47 14. Writing Chord Progressions in Major 08:48 - 09:06 15. Solo-ing with the Pentatonic Major Scale 09:07 - 09:51 16. Suspended Chords 09:52 - 10:22 17. The Minor Scale + Diatonic Chords 10:23 - 10:43 18. Writing progressions in Minor 10:44 - 10:50 19. Soloing with the Pentatonic Minor Scale 10:51 - 11:34 20. Ear Training Intervals and Chords 11:35 - 12:22 21. Power Chords 12:23 - 12:52 22. Relative Scales and Tonul Center 12:53 - 13:25 23. Combining Pentatonic Shapes 13:26 - 13:52 24. Arpeggios and Chord Tone Soloing 13:53 - 14:21 25. Inversions and Slash Chords 14:22 - 14:48 26. Popular 7th Chords 14:49 - 15:28 27. Diatonic 7th Chords 15:29 - 15:38 28. Blues 15:39 - 16:16 29. Secondary Dominant Chords 16:17 - 16:40 30. Diminished Chords 16:41 - 17:08 31. Augmented Chords. 17:09 - 17:39 32. Harmonic Minor 17:40 - 18:11 33. Writing Melodies 18:12 - 18:47 34. Passing Tones and Chromaticism 18:48 - 19:25 35. Introducing Modes 19:26 - 20:35 36. Transpositions and Modulations 20:36 - 21:06 37. Modal Interchange 21:07 - 21:32 38. Song Sections 21:33 - 22:08 39. Song Structures 22:09 - 22:34 40. Writing Drum Parts 22:35 - 23:29 41. Writing Bass Lines 23:30 - 23:46 42. Creating a Full Song 23:47 - 24:17 43. Advanced Theory Concepts: Timbre, Harmony, Tunings, and World Music 24:18 - 25:30

I am an old dog, self-taught for 54 years. Covid killed some friends and all my gigs. I quit playing for a few months out of depression and being stuck musically. Putting things back together correctly though. I have begun the process of actually learning the instrument. I'm charged and excited and bored out of my freaking skull. I dig the map. I liked, sub'ed. I'll be back.

You might not have 2 million or 3 million subs, yet you are the no.1 KZfaq guitar instructor. Power to you 🔥

Soooo.... sorry it's been so long since my last video but I literally was working non stop to finish my course. I honestly think its the best educational resource available for guitarists. Now that it's done I'll be back to making YT videos again and more free courses like my blues and interval course. thanks for being patient!

This showed me how much I’ve truly learned as a musician and how much I still have to learn. Thank you for such a great video! I also will show this to my guitar students!

I did not have a clue about music theory and thought it was just too beyond me. Then I found your channel and have completely surprised myself and it has vastly improved my guitar playing and I am just a bedroom guitar player. Cannot thank you enough.

Wow! I'm THAT guy!! At 62, from a family of professional musicians who've played with the likes of Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Fats Domino, I have been playing music and 5 different instruments most of my life but this organizes things extremely well for me and now I understand why I didn't understand some things early on or HOW composers came up with some writings and concepts that I knew HAD to make sense. Also a roadmap to what I may be missing in my own knowledge. Where were you 40 years ago!!!?? Will recommend your vids/courses and can't wait to delve into them more!

Jake is the only teacher that taught me to play with actual practical knowledge. He focuses on actually using theory to MAKE music. So many people and teachers on youtube just talk about music theory but don't actually show you what to do with it. Jake gives a ton of great advice. I also like that most of his content is geared towards intermediates rather than beginners.

Long time without a video from you. Glad to have one more

What a talent to comunicate basic and complex concepts to an audience of widely varied understanding levels of the material, from novice to pro, you speak to everyone and put the knowledge or the roadmap to it at reach. I admire that Jake, anyone who has such a good handle of their field, and invests as much time and thought into it is alright by me. You should be very proud of your work. As a keyboard player who's watched more videos on guitar than I ever thought, I can say that you're as good at communicating music and it's concepts as any expert in their field i have ever layed eyes on. It's not often you get to experience that, a mastery of their field and material. It's a joy to experience

i will forever preach the word of signals music studio

It’s honestly so crazy how much i’ve learned from your channel. Out of the hundreds of music theory lesson channels i’ve tried out, something just clicked when i started watching these lessons, hopefully i’ll be able to purchase the entire course some time in the future, keep up the great work!

Disembodied virtual blob Jake is now my new favorite version of Jake.

This was the kind of video I’ve been looking for since I was 16 and full of inspiration. Learned a mixture of these concepts so out of order at the time and never really knew how to use them to compose music that I was proud of. Now I’m taking it all back to the basics. I’m 23 now and I’ve never been more excited to truly elevate my musical skills and knowledge. Thank you!

This course is unquestionably the best course I've ever had the pleasure of using. In 10 lessons I learned more about theory and retained more about theory than I did with 4 months of piano lessons. Incredible work Jake, and I highly recommend everybody nab this course if you're serious about making music

This has really inspired me to go back and truly master some concepts I've passed over through the years. The visual is so helpful!

The timestamps for the 43 music concepts (with space for fat fingers) 1. Musical Alphabet 02:19 2. Musical Staff 02:43 3. Knowing the Fretboard 02:59 4. Scale Shapes and the Major Scale 03:15 5. Rhythm Basics 03:50 6. Triplets, Swing, and Advanced Tuplets 04:12 7. Meter and Time Signature 04:40 8. Audiation and Melody 05:16 9. Key Sigs and Enharmonics 05:55 10. Scale Degrees 06:48 11. Triads 07:27 12. Movable Chords 07:52 13. Diatonic Major Chords + Roman Numerals 08:10 14. Writing Chord Progressions in Major 08:48 15. Solo-ing with the Pentatonic Major Scale 09:07 16. Suspended Chords----------------09:52 17. The Minor Scale + Diatonic Chords 10:23 18. Writing progressions in Minor 10:44 19. Soloing with the Pentatonic Minor Scale 10:51 20. Ear Training Intervals & Chords 11:35 21. Power Chords 12:23 22. Relative Scales and Tonal Center 12:53 23. Combining Pentatonic Shapes 13:26 24. Arpeggios & Chord Tone Soloing 13:53 25. Inversions & Slash Chords 14:22 26. Popular 7th Chords 14:49 27. Diatonic 7th Chords 15:29 28. Blues 15:39 29. 2ndary Dominant Chords 16:17 30. Diminished Chords 16:41 31. Augmented Chords 17:09 32. Harmonic Minor 17:40 33. Writing Melodies-------------------18:12 34. Passing Tones & Chromaticism 18:48 35. Introducing Modes 19:26 36. Transpositions and Modulations 20:36 37. Modal Interchange 21:07 38. Song Sections------------------------21:33 39. Song Structures 22:09 40. Writing Drum Parts----------------22:35 41. Writing Bass Lines 23:30 42. Creating a Full Song--------------23:47 43. Advanced Theory Concepts: Timbre, Harmony, Tunings, and World Music 24:18

You are CRIMINALLY underrated, sir. The fact that you are making this content available for FREE and the fact that you explain things so well is insane, you have no idea how much you have helped me. Thanks so much Jake!

You started me out when I bought my first guitar a year ago, and now coming back a year smarter and going through this video, these topics are like a second nature to me thanks to you. Big praise and thank you for being an awesome teacher.

Intervals changed my life now practicing daily

I tried using everything I've internalized from your channel, so far, in my recent cover song, and my song writing capabilities have benefited greatly!

I took music all through school and learned basic theory, but I didn't understand it on a deeper level to actually apply it on the instruments I played (clarinet, viola, keyboard), so I just memorized songs. When I picked up guitar a couple years ago (took a big break, so I've only been playing for 16 months in total), I was able to see patterns and improvise for the first time. I'm a logical learner, so the better I understand something, the more I can do with it. If i don't understand how something works, I get a little frustrated and confused. It amazes me that so many guitarists don't know much theory cause I feel it's so important, but at the same time, guitarists who have been playing much longer than me are surprised by my progress. While I did have to spend a few months just learning how to play guitar and trying to sound good, being able to improv and make your own progressions are things even more advanced players can't do cause they only learned songs from tabs. I didn't want to feel limited again so I made sure not to take that route. My goal is to improvise and write my own songs, especially more unique and complex progressions like Japanese music, so videos like yours that talk about borrowed chords, using diminished etc have been so useful to me. Thank you so much for making these videos!

Jake you are undoubtedly one of the most sincere Music learner and devotee from a systematic, analytical and scientific perspective I have ever seen. You have a very long journey to cover. Awesome dedication , superb explanatory and demonstrative approach. You must have inspired thousands of your viewers around the globe.. and thats not something trivial. Genuinely earned subscribers

This 'map' was an incredible breakthrough for my understanding about what, where, when and why! Thank you!!

You are what we needed right now!! I live in Nepal and by law we cannot make any international payments even if we want to and all the music schools are closed because of covid. Thanks a lot for providing such a quality content for free.

Love this! Jake is my music instructor!! Consider his Patreon if you like this video.

Great stuff but what about two topics that seem pretty important to me: 1) voice leading - how do you harmonize a melody to get from one chord to next; and 2) counterpoint - how do two or more simultaneous melodies interact and interrelate. Maybe you consider these advanced or not applicable to modern pop or jazz but even a composer pop can greatly increase his toolkit with them imho.

Just getting turned onto this channel, so absolutely, “Thank you, very, very much Patreons”. I agree with his summation, both that you don’t need every concept to make great music, AND that knowing (…not just conceptually, but inside your body) more, being exposed to different structures, only enhances your Musical Soul. Any structure that increases my musical confidence is GOLD. I will join you on this journey. Just don’t know where to jump in, or if taking on a course like this is the “fastest” way to expanding my creativity and confidence?

Uniquely novel and innovative comprehensive overview of an entire curriculum. I’ve been studying music theory on KZfaq most of today including one (rare) for guitar. As an English language teacher, my motto was learning is ‘serious fun’. As I explained to a fellow teacher who asked why he could hear so much laughter from my classroom, “If they’re laughing, they’re learning”. But the most impressive feature of this upbeat presentation is the emphasis on composing songs and music generally. This channel and teacher is now my ‘go-to’ one for music theory application. Many many thanks Jake. You are a world-beating teacher.

I was surprised to see that I am well-acquainted with nearly every concept on your list (many thanks to your own videos!). I suppose the missing ingredient for me is practice and exercise!

Hey Jake, i've tried to resist the impulse to ask you but, i can't take it anymore. I'm sorry that it has to be on such a long and elaborated video but... were you Pooploser_69 in The Noob Adventures?

I'm in the process of applying to a music college. I'm an electronic producer, everything done with a mouse and a keyboard... I don't play any instruments (anymore). What I want to do is better express my imagination for years to come without becoming repetitive or samey. This video inspires and motivates me to work harder in the study because there is more to music theory than memorizing chord names. If I don't get accepted to this college, I will consider self study to a greater degree... I feel God gave me this talent with music to serve, and I want to serve others, and you have helped inspire me to persevere and not give up if I fail at one academic venture.

19:36 I learned that way too early on

20:13 "So each one of these modes is an entire world of music theory unto itself and it should not be ignored..." Saying while ignoring Locrian. Fair enough.

your last points regarding 'professional composers' vs the more general 'composers' was spot on, well said

I am learning to compose film music on my keyboard and DAW. I took many music theory from the net, trying to understand the concepts. I always ended up being confuses, not knowing where to use what in my music writing. By far, this is the only course I took which clarified me the theory and how and when to apply it in my writing. Even though it is on the guitar, the music concepts are the same. He teaches them in a very simple 10 min videos which are clearer then hours of time waisting with other teacher and still you don't get it. Thank you Jake, your method of teaching is awesome :).

I believe learning Music Theory is about being consistent and reliable as a musician. You can make music without knowing any of it, but what if one day you're just _not feeling it_ ? What if one day you don't know what to put in the next part of the song, or why it doesn't sound _right_ ? By learning theory, you always know exactly what to do: Need a happy song? Bam, no problem. Need a sad song? Scary song? Atmospheric song? There you go. Need to learn 20 songs for next week? You have a framework to understand what makes each song up without too much memorization.

"They are the only sponsors I trust at this point." Sounds like there's a story there?

I tried to visit this museum with my wife and kids and was told that some guy had paid to privately hire it out for a tutorial. Thanks buddy😒. We'd driven 469 miles.

Some KZfaqrs make only gear vids, or only theory vids, or only production vids, but your content variety is top notch!

You are literally the best music teacher on KZfaq.

"I don't go into songwriting thinking 'I hOpE I cAn Do iT tHIs tIme'" lol, I feel personally attacked

Jake, I enjoy your perfect non-stop style. And also your insight, motivation, confidence and brainy universe. Big fun to be with you at the top of your game. Kudos!

this video is a godsend, thank you so much i now have a teacher but this would be so valuable as a self taught player (and still is even with lessons) i was confused on what to learn for so long and in what order to do so, youtube provides so much information but in no order which is a gift and a curse to players who don’t have lessons and are self taught, PLEASE use this video as a map to guide you to guitar mastery i want to thank you for what you do in releasing all of this content and information for free, you deserve a trophy 🏆

Definitely getting your new course, you're my fave teacher on youtube for this stuff. Thanks man, have a good christmas and new year

Even if I can't actually buy your course, I would really like too, and I encourage everybody to buy it, as you are the best teacher that I've stumbled upon on youtube.

Watching virtual Jake's hand dots flying all of the place put a genuine smile on my face.

This is massively helpful and precisely what I was looking for. If we had concept/mind maps for all topics I think people would see a huge boost in the speed at which they'd be able to learn things-especially those that benefit from understanding things from a big picture perspective first. I love having the entire landscape of a craft or topic mapped out as much as possible before diving in. Thank you for this! It was amazing how you were able to organize all of this and give thorough articulations on each topic and subtopic. This is a dream come true for me to have a craft organized to this degree lol

I love maps. Especially those that show where the treasure is, and how to get there.

19:40 I learned that waaaaay too early 💀💀

Classic Rock Makers you need this 1. Major/Minor Pentatonic Scale Combined 2. Power Chords 3. 7th Chords and Triads 4. Cool Blues Licks and Solos 5. Blues Music Theory and it's enough (Rock N Roll = Blues on Blazing Marshall Heads)

Terrific tour of music theory. Thanks and thanks for the PDF!

Yes finally. The lizzio withdrawals weren't good.

Hi! nice video, as a professional composer i think one of the most important things to lear is how to analyse music, because at the end of the day everything is right there in the score, the arrangement, the instruments, the harmony, the groove. As you say, a pro composer needs to be able to write any type of music, I do it all the time and analyse helped me a lot on my tasks :)

As a composer of art rock/art pop (3 EP'S) and pro rock (comes out in late 2021 or early 2022) I think fun begins at #35. Music is a sometimes proving but mostly statisfying experience.

I love signals and also that someone 12 years old has the voice of someone 43 years old 😆

I know this isnt the point of the video but I was giggling the entire time at the chunky 3d man's waving bubble hands

I love this. I've played bass for 15 years. I can see where my learning has been like a map like this. I can see blatantly where I hard wall at suspended chores. But degrees and all that make sense, after I figured out chords to give more variation of patterns, all notes are some degree of the corresponding original note. That made modes come easy. I can't remember the names, but I know how to make them.

I really appreciate this video. It's insane how many things people have told me to learn right away that are in the latter half of the roadmap

Lydian??? Nooo Eldian? Yees

I'm really curious about your course. I've been appreciating your videos for the past year and would like to know how the course videos differ? Is there any actual interaction between you and the student? Your methods of teaching usually seem tp strike a note with my brain but 200$ is a bit of a commitment and the previous (set course-impersonal) guitar courses I've tried were pretty much a bust.

The virtual tour is so cool. There is so much potential to build upon for future videos.

I found this channel by accident, on the Augmented Chords video…… immediately subbed and shared it with my oldest son….. Thank you for this free content !!!!!!!!! At the current time, I can’t afford to spend money, so having this resource is priceless !!!! Thank You !!!! And Thaks to your Patreon members for allowing you to create free content for us folks in the YT universe !!!!!!!

I'm trained in writing (poetry and screenwriting focus) and acting, but professionally I'm focusing more on developing my musicality. This is a crash course I will be revisiting again and again. Thank you!

Great content and delivery. Thank you for not interrupting the video every five minutes with an ad.

i generally do not comment on any video. however, this channel changed the whole perspective on my guitar learning process. he deserves more, thanks a lot!

FLYING TOWARD THE SUN WITH A GUITAR, THIS VIDEO HAS MADE ME A BETTER MUSICIAN TEN FOLD

1. Your voice reminds me of if Mike Rowe never even heard of the concept of smoking. 2. This video made me realize how fractured my music theory knowledge is. I played trombone in school and played keyboard and sang in my youth group worship band. I learned a lot and have followed channels like Adam Neely for years. But there’s definite holes because while I know how the modes work, I can’t make a basic melody that flows well. Thanks for this!

This virtual reality format was so engaging! Nice idea. (And great video too.)

I was just going through your video on Diminished Chords and wondering when you'd post again. Daym!

DYNAMICS!!! Three are THREE components to any note. Frequency, duration, and VOLUME. This is a concept that is sorely overlooked among the guitar community.

For the price, you’re practically giving it away, There’s so much valuable straight forward information, this is what I’ve been wanting to get into,

Well, this has been a real confidence builder. I am a drummer, but decided to learn how to write songs about seven years ago. I spent a year on the piano learning chords and inversions. And a year re-learning basic guitar, and this last year I’ve been learning intermediate guitar. I’ve started writing songs in Ableton Live and it takes only ten minutes to lay down a structure. Understanding the Major Scale and its chords and the circle of fifths is the foundation for western music.

Thank you for this video. I've been playing for 30 years and it's good to have these topics enumerated to clearly see the areas I need to focus on. Especially after having learned theory through the years in random bits and pieces. I found you while exploring songwriting concepts, and I'm glad I did. Thank you, again. All the best from the Bay Area. MK

GREAT JOB KID! And to the reply by Martyn Spooner- Anyone that has a guitar, Has had a bedroom. Keep up the good work. I've been playing 47 years and that is the most constructive road map to success any musician could follow. A few finger exercises applied to your particular instrument and WOW. The music of the future is going to be absolutely beautiful. Brilliant. Magnifico.

The fact that an astounishing amount of music relies on the arbitary major scale and derived triads is what motivates me not to follow the same path and approach music from a more zoomed out perspective of understanding rather than conceptually blown up convention. Fortunately, when you're composing for a band only, you don't need the archaic notation system either.

the future Speculation on my ever making sense of how to make music was grimmer and grimmer each time I put my guitar down hoping not to fail the next time; THIS VIDEO TURNED EVERYTHING AROUND FOR ME. Thank You SMS you Boss

"It's kind of a dry topic, but you're gonna have to learn it if you want to move on to another dry topic!" You're really selling this right from the start...

I appreciate that you understand that not everyone is here for the guitar, and so while you occasionally give guitar-specific guidance, you do limit it and make it clear when it's specific to the guitar VS what's applicable elsewhere.

I just learnt that one my fav scale is called "Phrygian dominant scale". Ty ;) This whole video is surely one the best summary ever made on music theory.

I don't know what inspires you, but thank you! You are truly the most helpful musician/teacher I've ever listened to. Don't stop your great work. Giving this information with this level clarity is definitely a gift for anybody who is watching. I did not say it enough, you'll excuse me, but thank you, thank you again.

The feeling when you learned secondary dominants (#29) without knowing even half of previous concenpts

Played in my youth (60's) then was away for yrs due to life. At 70 I picked up and started to play again. However I have learned things from you that I wish I had known 60 yrs ago.It sure is fun to play things that were out of my reach. Anyway just like to give you a kudos for helping young and OLDE timers the knowledge to enjoy music. Thanks

Thank you, thank you, thank you, I'm always in the lookout for more information to be a better musician and your channel has been the holy grail!

U R the bomb Jake ... I continue to learn a ton from u and ur professional KZfaq postings.... thanks for all of your hard work and sharing with us your skills. You keep us all motivated to learn and play more. Cheers !

Hey Jake! I know its an older video but I just wanted to say Thank you! for taking the time to create such a clear & detailed video! I finally have a clear path! 🙏

Knowing the fretboard has it's own room full of tree diagrams to go with it before you can(should) move on to tackling concepts. For the first scale I would argue that the pentatonic scale is more important before the major scale, because the major and minor scales can be built from the pentatonic scales and for guitarists the open strings create a G pentatonic scale. Helps give a reference for the sonority of the guitar.

before you start watching just know most of this is an advert for his course not a tutorial but it creates a very useful road map to begin your learning.

I was worried about a lesion on my nose and I had to take an appointment with my doctor. Hopefully he will tell me that the exudate is simple a new growth of musical talent oozing out. Thanks for giving me hope.

As what I would humbly consider myself a fairly seasoned classically trained pianist - where most of my early teachers failed to include theory in what I was habitually practicing four hours a day - and then having to pick up theory when I started playing professionally, I will give you big props on actually simplifying the process of “approaching” theory, modes, etc. However, my brother in arms, I believe if you cut your $270 price point in half, you’d double your income. Simply because you would likely get more than twice the amount of subscribers willing to plunk down $135 than $270 which, as you know, any home studio music producer/writer, would just as soon put that 270 into gear. Just food for thought. I think you do an amazing job of pragmatically putting theory/modes into a comprehensible context. Keep up the amazing work!!

Lots of concepts here and this is a great intro to the concepts of music. Music is a skill you build and it all depends what you want to achieve. For me I love trying to produce something new and better every time. It just is your time and really anyone can do it just as anyone can cook or build.

What I like so much about this video is it maps it out exactly like Skyrim maps out its skill trees. Really makes learning this exciting and straightforward

Yo holy shmoley this video itself is art. I never thought I'd be learning in this way especially like this, but this is the most I've ever learned and I wanna thank everyone who was involved in the making of this video

This video taught me that I have advanced topics down perfect, but for some basic topics, I'm absolutely lost

I cannot express enough how helpful this is. I've been going around aimlessly learning theory out of order and never understanding any of it. This just straightened everything out for me

Such an unconventional order, definitely way different from what happens in 90%+ of the cases I've seen. When you start learning an instrument you not only want to learn to compose, but to play existing music. Specially for an instrument such as guitar, which is played while singing quite a bit. I find it hard to imagine myself studying intervals before ever thinking about 7th, suspended and diminished chords, for instance. I also think it'd be kinda weird to learn major and minor scales so separate from each other, they've always seemed to be such intertwined concepts for me. Anyway, what a great video, loved your take on teaching, great finale to new year's eve celebrations :)

"if you go slow, and you learn things in the Correct order" *throws tablet to her left* "like that's ever gonna happen"

19:23 proves that the avatars need eyeballs lol. This was such an awesome video, and even though you were just a little black 3D model, so much of your personality still comes through. Very logical arrangement of how to tackle this knowledge, this is a great resource!

i swear I've been so lost over the past 4 years because I didn't know where to start and how to progress ...if that video was available 4 years ago it would've done me a great deal

This is such a helpful guide to learn music. I haven't found any video like this explaining so brief and clear, and it's especially very helpful for these who get really overwhelmed the first time picking an instrument, that avoids getting stressed and not knowing what to focus on. Thanks so much for this, amazing effort!