Note all you new to intermediate guitarists out there; This Is The Guy You Are Looking For! I seen a lot on KZfaq buy this guy cuts through the nonsense and takes you directly to what you need to know, and without all the complications or other crap. This guy will make you better, quickly!

I’ve been playing awhile and I know these chord shapes through past lessons as a kid.. BUT, qualifying them as Landmarks within a System makes the bell in my head ring. Why have I never made this connection😅 Thank You!

Simply the best online instruction regarding connecting scales, chords, etc. Well done. Great teaching style.

Been playing for 60 years and learning so much from you. Sometimes just reveals to me what I have been doing and why that works. Life long! I am primarily acoustic.

Outstanding job of teaching progression of the major key changes. You don’t hurry and you use great illustration and techniques to make your learning possible without any frustration. Thank you

My first teacher online was Justin Sandercoe then Marty! But nobody has come close to those guys as a teacher other than Brian in active melody… but Lordy Lord this guy blows them ALL out of the water!! Great teacher and always goes back to where it comes from so it makes sense!! My new guru next to Brian!💫✨🌟

I’ve always had difficulties with mixing chords and licks. Your lessons helped me so much to understand shapes and correspondent scales. It all makes sense now!

Your students are VERY fortunate to have such an EXCELLENT, EXCEPTIONAL Teacher! Logic, logic, logic! Kudos to you, Sir!

THANKS ; You Sir are the best teacher hands down

The best clarifying explanation on how to connect chords and scales in a truly useful way!! Congrats on your channel and thanks for great content!

Really great and useful lesson for me and hopefully for all bedroom guitar players like me - thx!

Man, I learn so much from your lessons! Thanks so much!

The way you've opened my eyes n ears to a new way of envisioning the fretboard is a beautiful Thang! Thank you so much mang !!

Thank you for all the great tips!

You have a really good way of teaching music. I have learnt so many useful things from you. Thank you.

Another brilliant lesson Blue, thank you so much, really love how these connect every Saturday opposed to ‘random idea’ lessons found elsewhere which are fun but lead one nowhere in terms of overall development as a player. One idea that would be so helpful if you would be so kind, is to take an entire lesson to demonstrate in more detail those fabulous licks you do every time you enter a pentatonic shape, even when I slow it down 50% so you sound drunk while doing it I can’t quite workout the notes and fingerings you’re doing. Lastly love the tone you’re r getting out of that tribute, I can’t seem to replicate with mine….and the puppy relaxing in the background is a hoot! Thanks again and best wishes.

Really great lesson. You are a fantastic teacher. I have struggled with the caged system for quite a while and this boils it down to just 3 very useable shapes that even I can memorize. Thank you. Oh and I love your westie. We used to have a pair of them and they didn’t get along because they both wanted to be stuck to your side. Loyalty and unconditional love. What could be better. Happy new year. 🎉

Once again, great content. I'm familiar with this stuff but I really like the way you break things down. And I did get some take aways.

Super useful lesson, thanks for sharing.

Great lesson... excellent info

This dude has launched me into space! He teaches in a manner that is engaging, interesting and easy to follow. Wow!

Your lesson are so helpful. Thank you so much . God bless you

Pure gold! Thanks Blue

This guy deserves more subs! Teaches guitar in a simple, sensible and practical way! And because of that, I can understand and apply his lessons to my guitar playing right away! So many light bulb moments here man! I really admire and appreciate your effort! Thank you very much! God bless!

I've been trying to learn the cage system and get better at triads for a while. I know the theory, but I couldn't translate it to the fretboard in realtime. I was waiting for that aha moment people are raving about. Man, you just connected my brain to the fretboard in 3 videos. Thank you!

Great lesson here. Unlocked the horizon for me. 🙏. Thank you for sharing

Love the teaching style...it works.

Another great clip!

Very useful, thanks 🙏

Priceless Video for me. I can thank you a billion times ! FAN

Your channel is extremely good keep it up looking forward to you're lessons so easy to understand and implement thankyou

Very helpful. Thanks.

Blue you filled in the gaps I've struggled to find for years and years thanks mate.

🤯 I am only 4:48 minutes in and already you've connected this idea to concepts I've known for years... Really appreciate you sharing, and kudos on your approach; you make the concepts very easy to understand!

Another excellent lesson!

This is wonderful!

Just can't stop watching your channel brilliant thanks Colin uk 🇬🇧 👍

Great lesson!

I just found your site recently and I am very impressed with your lessons. They are super helpful and well taught. I am actually working on learning my triads across the fretboard and your lessons on this topic have been very useful. Keep up the great work.

I agree with others, I know the chords, but never applied them like this. I've been noodling for yrs and decided two yrs ago to learn, you've taught me more in 10 videos than I've ever known for 15 yrs.. thanks bud !!!

Thank you so munch for that amazing lesson and all the others you made ...! From Mont-Tremblant Québec... Yes in the snow right now ...!

I'm also old enough to remember VHS tapes. Before that there wasn't much beyond chord and song books. I wish I would have had someone to "pull back the curtain" way back then. It flattens our the learning curve by years.

I have taken live lessons from an instructor and they taught me a lot and certainly have real advantages. But I absorb stuff slowly. Once I get it I get it but it's slow and I would often ask for numerous explanation repetitions from my instructor. Frustrating for both of us sometimes. This lesson shows why often (for me) online lessons such as this can be so helpful to me. There's a lot of info in this lesson. I got a lot of it but sometimes just hanging on by my fingernails (no pun intended). I will watch this a number of times to let it sink in. Don't get me wrong, you're clear, concise and succinct. But I am slow and there are gaps (many) in my knowledge. But I can repeat and repeat to slowly get it. Thanks so much for these little yet important "landmarks" tricks and procedures that can make it easier for us older amateurs.

And for those of us who are older and/or will never have the time to learn and make use of learning every note, this does it for me. WOW! Thank you!

So great thank you

Enjoying the lesson

Won me over - new subscriber gained! Landmarks are such a great help.

Thanks great lesson

Great lesson! Thanks.

Right now my favorite teacher of guitar on KZfaq. Good teaching style.

I always knew this stuff was in there somewhere! Thanks for clarifying it!

Wow that is awesome thank you so much

Excellent lesson, i always learn something new with your video thank you, you're really the best...

Great and important lesson. One of the very best, a teacher guitar buddy

Yes. This is great! I know all these chord inversions, and so I know the landmarks. But putting them together with the Pentatonic shapes is what i didn't have. And, in learning the Pentatonic shapes, i could never remember all of them, because i just couldn't relate them to anything! When or why would i use them?! Then, you come along and show us how they relate to these chord shapes/inversions! Ding! THAT is the information I've been needing! Thank you, Blue! Wow. Just a few lessons have REALLY opened up so many possibilities in my playing. Now i can do so many things I've wanted to do, for so long! I just can't believe how so much has opened up for me after just a few short lessons. Mm, mm, mmh. One happy dude here! 👍 👌 🤪

Excellent ⭐️

This is the lesson I have needed...connects the dots

Wow, I wish you had been my guitar teacher when I was first learning! Very cool and easy to follow, but powerful lesson!

Thanks. I can actually undrstand with the diagrams also. I never knew the A chord in those other places. Great teacher.

Thank you!

Nice job…thanks!

I’ve never seen this presented this way but it is so useful. Subscribed! Now I want to practice finding all the nearby diatonic chords in a key, and on the top 3 strings as well. Any plans for videos exploring those topics?

Top class, the volcabulary will make the sentence.. Thank you for the improvement to my understanding of the universal language...... Music...

Thanks!

Hi Blue, 6:34 that 60s 70s 80s Chord that Keith Richard Chord and Bad Company chord Kiss Chord and Free Chord it in the song Alright Now,it in lot Rock Songs, Great Lesson and Thank you Blue, you are Awesome Teacher and Thumbs 🆙 Great video.

Wow! Awesome stuff! Much appreciated!

Where the F has this lesson been my whole life! I knew some of these concepts, but never explained so well and so concisely! THANK YOU!!!

Amazing. You are becoming a star instructor.

Fantastic vid. I know you make this look easy, but at least you repeated the steps enough so I can learn a chunk at a time. Bonus footage of the Westie makes it even more enjoyable. I've had three Westies. One was born a grumpy old man but the other two were the best pooches I've ever known.

This is awesome. Makes so much sense. Is there a similar system with minor chords?

I think this is the most mind blowing guitar lesson I have ever had.

I had been making major strides in learning my CAGED shapes and Triads. Your lesson really has helped me make some amazing connections. My current approach to connecting the appropriate major pentatonic shape to a chord is to look at which string the root is on. If the root is on the 6th string, I can solo with the 5th and 1st position major pentatonic shapes. If the root is one the 5th string, I can solo with the 2nd and 3rd position major pentatonic shapes. And, if the root is on the 4th string, I can solo with the 4th position major pentatonic shape. This was a major ah ha moment for me. I can connect any scale to a chord simply by knowing where the root is found on the strings. Thanks for your lessons. They are amazing.

This is the easiest to understand ever. I have been playing since 1961 and this is very very good.

You just made Music Life is so enjoyable.

5:42 Root diagonal, 5:36 1st inv. Chord scales shape 1, 7:46 third inv chord/scale

Superb lesson. Do you have a lesson on the double stops you are using for your scale playing?

brilliant

Very useful guitar lesson. Greetings from Germany. Melody2go

This is cool stuff, but you need to know your root note locations. I reckon a session on octaves would go well with these lessons. I learnt all this via CAGED system and found knowing octaves was really useful when wanting to move to the next chord / scale

Excellent lessons. Just found you a few weeks ago. I have learned so much and had so much fog lifted from my brain in such a very short space of time. A question - I enjoyed the lesson on playing the major Penta on 1 chord and playing the Minor Penta on 4 chord. However which scale would be most suitable on the 5 chord and any other chords within the song? Is there a rule of thumb for this?

Please make a video on finding tabs of any song ❤

This is exactly what guitar lessons should be

This video references the "Incredible Chord Scale Connector" video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z5ydfa17z87LimQ.html Thanks for watching everyone! I really appreciate your support! 🎸😎

Excellent stuff! Thank you! And you didn't say the scary letters CAGED, Will you do a minor version, too? Please? (Lastly, your dog is the cutest.)

Why i could not make this Landmarks connections ?? Im late on this by 40 years !! Better late than EVER !! THANK YOU, SIR !!!

Great lesson. Weren't you mixing minor and major pentatonic scales in your examples, or maybe I was confused.

Why is D the 1 position minor penta? When the second penta is used at the G major position?

This was so helpful, a light bulb just went off and all of a sudden I am searching all over for the root and the inversions. Thank you, Thank you.

When switching to a different chord like the I to IV, it's much easier to just know your scale degrees. If you know where the 4th scale degree is (always 1 string down on the same fret), then that's where you place the chord.

Be great to have a minor version of this!

Nice,but would have liked to see you play the D scale notes in the C shape position

Holy Smoke! I've seen those chords but never made the connections.

Great lesson. But maybe it’s because I am a newbie but the bar chord at 2:03 is a D chord right, not an A like you mention.🤔

I surmise the Hendrix over the thumb trick was the landmark

I had the bits and pieces, for so long, but they never really sounded so good, it was not connected like this at all.. Aww man if I only knew! You got more connecting stuff like this?

My wise advice to anyone who wants to make a quantum leap on the guitar: practice what is shown here. The effort that goes into this will be more than rewarded. Unfortunately, simply consuming it doesn't help. Even if you understand the content a lot: you also have to practice it!! This means sitting down with the guitar and naming the notes on the fingerings. It's a bit like learning a new language. You can't learn it just by listening...(I know what I'm talking about because I usually avoided the effort of learning and preferred to watch the next guitar learning video instead ;)

So…Lightfoot…Young…Mitchell…this dude! 100% Canadian.

Are these also referred to as triads?

How I wish I had been exposed to this concept 35 years ago.