If you like these lessons, definitely check out www.zombieguitar.com/ It is a one-of-a-kind site dedicated to helping guitarists to understand the fretboard and create their own music. You will love it!!

I quit searching you tube for teachers about a year ago when I found Brian's channel. I've played for 30 years but just chords and tiny bits of lead. I decided to learn lead and went through about 15 or 20 you tube lessons but when I found Brian I dropped all the others. Brian teaches very methodically and explains in great detail, sometimes over explaining it but that's what I like. In the year I've studied under Brian's lessons I've been able to improvise leads to songs I've never heard, write my own, jam with friends and stay in tune!! It's been.life changing. Wish I had done this years ago but I thought you had to be basically been blessed by the guitar gods to play lead and now i know it's just a matter of learning. I can't thank Brian enough. Sorry to ramble on lol.

Brian has the most candid and informative lessons I've found on KZfaq. He's opened up my playing up so much, guys I used to ask what they were doing, are now asking me what I'm doing. 5 Star stuff all the way.

You taught me piano fundamentals in 5 minutes. You legend.

And yet again, a few of those, "Why didn't I think of that?" moments... then, "Why didn't I hear about that years ago?" twinges of regret. Then, being older and wiser, "Better late than never." and "Thank God for Brian's videos" moments of gratitude. At any rate, thanks once again. Learned some really important things that I hope to pass along over here.

Brian’s tutorials are a must for the guitar player who wants to progress. Best 100 bucks I have spent!

When the student is ready, Brian Kelly will appear...

In my opinion, you are the best guitar / music teacher. Thanks for your lessons!

This is easily one of the best big picture guitar channels on KZfaq. Really helpful for intermediate players like myself.

For those out there trying to understand scales. The trick to a *major* scale is whatever note you start on is your *root* note. C Major scale has C as the root note. This is where the scale begins and ends (the next octave C). A *major* scale whole steps (skip a fret) and half steps (next closest fret) and follows the pattern *whole - whole - half - whole - whole - whole - half*. That's why for some key signatures like D, there are black keys involved due to pattern of a *major* scale and the fact that B->C and E->F has no sharps or flats so it's always a half step and has to be worked around in other ways. The minor scale formula is *whole - half - whole - whole - half - whole - whole*.

I play saxophone and learn more from Brian than any other source. I am proud to be a member of the Zombie Guitar community

I'm pretty sure your the only genuine sincere guitar teacher on KZfaq to be honest.

I watch a lot of KZfaq lessons. Have to say I always watch your lessons to the end. The best lessons on KZfaq.

Excellent presentations. The best I’ve seen. This really is like having a music instructor in your home. Thanks from NJ🎸

I have the same looper, a keyboard, and I use GarageBand in a similar way. I think the biggest aha I got from my keyboard was seeing that changing “keys “ is how you play from different notes, yet keep the same intervals or whole step/half step relationships. And understanding this is why a C Major scale sounds just like a B Major scale. You are doing great work here. Thanks for posting.

I had the same experience with the piano. Clarifies music theory as far as the building blocks of chord makeup, progressions, what makes a 7th chord etc. The piano was a huge help in this area....it's also fun to play and helps with song writing.

The one thing that greatly improved my musicianship was transcribing my favorite songs by ear and recreating them using a DAW. I try to recreate the drums, bass, and keys (if any), record the lead guitar and also record the vocal melody on guitar. It was during one of these recreations that I realized most vocal notes are chord tones 😃. By the way, I'm a lifetime member at zombie guitar and your material on scale system, chord tones, and arpeggios is the best systematic approach that I've come across; helped me a lot. Thanks you.

There are tons of great backing tracks on KZfaq now. Elevated Jamming Tracks is my favorite channel. I plan to get a small looper pedal soon. These tracks helped me play scales more musically and improvise. Now I'm hooked on playing.

You had me laughing hard with the sudden piano manifestation Brian.

Best thing i ever got as a birthday present was a boss looper. you can put a whole song together , vocals and lead solo on top also.

Excellent video thank you for sharing your knowledge Brian.

Those explanations and demonstrations are clear and easy to follow. Correlating the fret board scale patterns to the piano keyboard layout is definitely a huge step forward that I will begin working on.

The aha moments are incredibly vital to push someone to learn theory! I give credit to my stepdad who is a long time player as well and my motivation to start playing guitar. Long story short. It was my first few years of playing and I have been playing for 20 years now. At age 14 my stepdad brought his guitar on the cruise ship headed to Mexico. In our cabin I heard him noodling around with the minor pentatonic scale which I did not know at the time. I asked him what song he was playing and he responded by claiming that he was noodling around. I quickly asked him “how” how do you know how to randomly play something on the spot and make it sound good without it being rehearsed beforehand. He simply said to me “ oh it’s scales and stuff like that.” I immediately went to a nearby Sam ash music once we got off the cruise ship a few days later and picked up scale books. I immediately flipped to F major randomly and played the Ionian( major scale) in first position if F and I spent easily 30 minutes to an hour playing it up and down until it was as fluid as it could be. I then remember him telling me that you just add things to the scales to make it musical. (Bends,vibratos etc….) I then started to do that while noodling around in that one position of F major and while I was playing I had my aha moment and realized I’ve never sounded THIS GOOD. From that point forward I was hungry. I thought to myself if I can just learn one position of a scale and sound like this what happens when I learn a variety of scales and modes in different positions? My mind was blown😮 I immediately learned all the modes of the major scale than more scales and modes and I just got lost in theory. My progression skyrocketed from there. I’m not sure I would be the player I am today if that sequence of events did not unfold. For those of you who need motivation to practice your scales, chords, arpeggios, chord tones, theory in general. Instead of just playing songs and other peoples stuff than tske. It’s of my story and testimonial please 🙏

Thanks, Brian. The piano lesson helped a lot. Love your approach to drawing the similarities/differences between guitar and understanding how the keys of the piano work. This lesson opened a lot of doors for me.

Thank you Brian

Thank you for another great tutorial. 🇺🇸👍🎸

You make learning the piano seem so easy haha great video

Wow...here I am at 5.30am! Can't sleep... and I stumble upon this great vid full of aha moments for me!! Thanks Brian your vids are amazingly helpful in piecing it all together, much appreciated.

I would never have thought to think in terms of notes on the keys from a piano. I’ve known what each nite in the piano is and now I can apply the piano to the guitar to show me where the notes are on the fret board! Thanks, couldn’t have found it out with out this video as now I can visualise the keyboard to tell me the notes in each chord and find them on the guitar!! 🤘🏻🎸🖖🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥

That was great, thanks Brian!

Going to try to make this a habit in my practice routine! As an advanced beginner this is like gold to me and it's all starting to really make sense now. Thanks for all you do!

Another really helpful vid but all yours are Thanks again Brian

I can definitely relate to these. These three things also enhanced my playing significantly. Nice video, thanks for making these :)

Another top-notch video, clear, concise, well & simply explained you are a great teacher. The best lessons if found online for sure, and I've seen loads of them.

this video should have at least 1 million views.

Great lesson. The piano is a game changer. If you have an iPad, Patterning, is a great visual drum machine that really helped my playing.

The breakdown of the Daw will give me the freedom I need actually to record a progression,, my scale work Dorien as well as pentatonic minor scales on my piano will be better musical time spent . I will be on my DAW laying drum and bass tracks IN THE MORNING ! Solid lessons = insperation= successful musicians. I owe you this.. thank you.

Awesome Brian.

As always, another very generous lesson from Brian. Keep it humble dude, so many guitar players from all over the world, no matter what skill set we have, are learning a lot from you. Thank you very much and keep on rockin' the learning world.

Have always thought about getting a piano; now I'm convinced I'm getting one! Thank you Brian, you're the best.

Thank you Brian!!

I'm just starting to learn to play, and I've looked up dozens of videos on topics like this - I haven't yet heard anyone mention any tip like the first one you gave here. I will use that one, for sure. I don't have that pedal, but I can record myself strumming some chords on my DAW and then play to that.

These really are the top 3, it’s really hard to guide new students into buying a looper pedal, let alone get interested in how to play a piano and then operate a DAW, but eventually this is where everyone ends up if they stick with it past the first year of learning.

Three things that improved my guitar playing. #1 finding your channel. Working on numbers #2 and #3. You sir, as the kids say, rock.

Indeed, you're the best👍🏻. Thanks a lot.

Really like this video. It gives you an understanding on how things fit together. The piano was the most informative to me. I actually learned where notes are in the piano and some chords. Never had anything to do with the piano before. I like your videos, Brian, keep them coming.

Looper is great for sure. Never realized how shaky my rhythm playing was until I tried to loop it! Also tons of great backing tracks available online, but the looper really works your rhythm technique and timing.

Brian, I appreciate the honest & sincere teaching. I agree 100% with this video, wish I'd bought a looper pedal years ago... such an easy way to record. Come to think of it we never had KZfaq back in the day either! Excellent content on your own Channel. Thanks.

This makes perfect sense because most bands have a pianist in them all this is very useful in band scenarios thanks brain your super awesome I recently joined you online music program thx so much your super awesome.

Great tutorial as always, thank you sir

Thanks for all you do! We truly help ourselves when we help others; kinda paying it forward. Creates good Karma; lol!

Awesome video, simple ,informative and well worth the watch. Thanks Brian.

Great stuff mate thanks for that

Thank you for the piano lesson

Awesome lesson Brian (as usual) .... I especially like the new graphics at the intro!!

I have a BOSS Dr Rhythm DR-570 that has both drums and bass that can be programmed. It has presets as well so you tap a preset and just start playing scales and solos. Its a excellent way to improve soloing and scale patterns.

In a way I picked the wrong instrument to learn on lol!! Piano is layed out right in front on Us..... the guitar is like playing Tetris or Battle Ship lol. Either way i love it. The whole marathon. My only regret is not doing this 20 years ago lol!! OLd beginner here!! lol!

My three _Aha_ moments: 1) Learning pentatonic box one and that you can move it around to fit different chords. 2) Learning the steps of the Major scale on piano. This lead to literally all things music theory (other than rhythm ofc). 3) Working as an apprentice recording engineer and the fact I was immediately soaked with information of how sound works and how to pay very close attention to sound. This easily doubled how cleanly I played, and made me pay closer attention to literally every facet of playing and gear. I cannot say enough about how much of a difference listening to listen to things more carefully can make. It's easily doubled how good my ears are in general and that ofc has translated to me becoming a much better player in every way.

Great, great lesson!! Just looked through your catalogue of vids and looking forward to getting the most outta them, thanks again👍

Dude great video!

Wow! I learn so much from you and the information you shared in this video just opened doors for me! THANK YOU!

That looper seems to have "record" button and "stop" button separately. That is cool.

My greatest A-ha moment was hearing Take On Me for the first time.

Great stuff. Piano is a great way to learn music. It makes it all straightforward. The guitar makes more sense after looking at a keyboard where there is only one place for each note, unlike the guitar, where you can play the same note in many places.

Thanks Brian I am learning lots from your videos keep it up!

Buy a looper pedal for homemade backing tracks and testing harmonies Get a piano to figure out key signatures and chord composition Seeing, hearing and feeling subdivisions using a DAW

Nice one, thanks man. Loved the spot with the keys, will get some use out of that. Looper and DAW was interesting too

Thank you so much for this lesson Brian ! You have taught me a lot of good stuff here about guitar theory and piano theory ! :) thank you also for the rather handy DAW software aswell ! :)

Great content

Great teacher. Thank you.

Really believe the piano connection has served me well since learning just a little in HS. Certainly not a proficient keys player, but you don't need to be to see the notes more clearly on your guitar.

Great video Brian. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks Mr Kelly, I appreciate your straight forward approach in generously sharing your expertise and experiences. God Bless 👏🏼😊I am watching it to understand how the musical world works, I don’t have the comp nor the electric guitar, I am still on Acoustic Guitar heading into intermediate level after a long break 😄Thanks a ton

4:29 But it is usually not until many years later that we start to put the two together and really see how it all... is one of the same thing, chords, scales, chord-scales connection it's all just music. Fits in the one of the greatest sentences ever said on the internet.

Your audio station presentation was insightful. Can you do more videos on that?

What an awesome Video! Thanx a huge bunch!

Brian, You are awesome

Couldn’t be more grateful, thank you kind sir

I bought a looper after one of your older vids and it has been a world of difference since. I just got a new one that has drum beat as well as the Looper and Im lovin it.. thanks to your recommendations and lessons, its just awesomeness...😉

Super helpful, thank you!

What opened mine was learning Triads on the kneck and notes in relation to chords

Brian, your content is superb. I imagine it must be expensive to do so, but I’m sure when you can upgrade your sound and the ambience you shoot the videos in, your subscribers are going to fly. You deserve that, best of luck.

Excellent lesson!

Really interesting take on musical education I had never seen before. Hitting subscribe and like.

Sounds like you're from the Boston area. I'm originally from Woburn Ma..

I could never see the benefit of a keyboard for a guitarist - they are so different. But, your explanation does make a lot of sense.

I started learning guitar only after many years of playing piano pretty intensively, and because of that background I never really had any trouble understanding music theory and how everything fits together, so I was able to learn guitar fairly quickly. Learning the notes of the fretboard has still been a big pain, but a lot of little things like triad inversions, modes, and connecting pentatonic shapes were always straightforward and intuitive. Even a little piano knowledge goes a long way for just about any other instrument, which is why nearly jazz musician worth their salt knows at least some piano.

That’s it , I’m buying a loop pedal tomorrow.

thank you! I need a piano now. ;)

Interesting and well done video.

Yes! A Reaper user also!

Great video

Thx bud you rock

Great video. Love the piano section!

I was using a metronome, or a drum track from the internet. Now I know to do both, I will use the metronome when recording the track.

Looper pedals are excellent, but there are awesome backing tracks on you tube for all the modes and keys.

❤️ made my day

You brother are a very underrated teacher . I hope you find much success . Simplicity is key and you have mastered the art 👍🏽.

I really really DO NOT UNDERSTAND why you're not as famous as Marty Schwartz, or Justin Guitar. You're the best teacher I've ever had here on youtube. Please consider hiring a pro video editor to up your production values. Seriously. your stuff will sky rocket. Most teachers on youtube give you fish...but you teach us HOW to fish! Much love

I like Subdivisions. 2112 is good tooll