Finally got around to listening to this full thing, really wonderful! When he said “some guys look at solo guitar as just a chance to show how many chords they know” I had to do some soul searching 😂

Totally agree that learning instruments raises your general level of musicianship. It's also just incredibly fun to pick up an instrument and learn how it works, its history, its culture and its purposes. Great interview, Adam!

"Music is more important than any one instrument" - massive!

You wrote it??? Damn.... love that song

Masterpiece ❤❤❤ Bravo 👏 🙌 👌

Your a great teacher What guitar and amp do you play?

Only five minutes in and already had an epiphany! If the remaining forty-plus minutes are even half as fruitful, this video is a blessing. Thanks!

this is exactly what made me want to learn to play guitar: the ability to understand the “bones” of a song in order to play it. I really appreciate what you’re suggesting here.

Julian seems like such a great guy. I just started getting into his music, and I’m enjoying it very much. Thanks for sharing this interview with us!

I need to tab every one of these and repeat every day until I can do it from memory. How to make every chord in one video is an amazing resource.

This was great,thank you all.

Hey, that's Mozart! Mozart ain't jazz...

I enjoyed this and found it very useful. Thank you. I’ll look for your tutorial on chord inversions - I think you referenced it during this video. I’ve been playing around with moving from the diminished shape to the seventh chord by moving one of the four notes… and I’m guessing I can also find the minor seventh form same positions. Seeing all of these shapes and understanding they are moveable chord shapes is helping me understand the fret board and chord quality - hearing the differences between these three and four note chords. I’d love to see more videos along these lines. Thanks again!

This is one of the most approachable explanations I've seen for spelling out chords--thank you! For the G6/9--was your replacing the 5 with the 6 rather than adding the 6 (making it a 5-part chord) a fingering option? If you were playing G6, in other words, would you be playing G B D E, or G B E?

Great seminar, thanks for your generosity in posting!!

My hats off to Molly and Grant. As a beginner guitarist whos been beginning for 50 years, I was able to understand their brilliant approach. The others were beyond my feable comprehension, so I will have to revisit in a decade to get to that level.

I know this isn't the purpose of your video but within 1 minute and 28 seconds, I've had my questions from the past 2 weeks answered lol. I've been dialing in my triads and wanted to progress to 7th chords. I've found a few "cheats" on making 7th chords with triads but I feel like it's not helping me really get used to the sound of full 7th chords. And learning them as barre chords doesn't help because I'm terrible at barre chords. Watching how you play 7th chords by reducing a barre chord to only 4 notes has really helped me see how it works. Its like reducing a barre chord to a triad, the order is just different. And even though I understood that, it was difficult to accept that what I was doing was correct. Seeing someone who truly knows what they're doing really helped. Thank you so much! I now feel free to explore different voicings. I truly enjoy your channel! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world.

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Love the concluding remarks. Adam and Eric are the most encouraging educators I've found on KZfaq. I am working to stop being down on myself with my technical shortcomings and trying to rush progress. I agree that guitar is so much more enjoyable if you recognize that it is a good teacher of patience. The best moments are when you're really in tune (hey-o) with the instrument and consciously feeling the connection, in the moment. You're not spaced out, but you feel no tension. I'm also paying for my years of iron-grip downstroke punk rock with hand pain issues, which forced me to learn to relax and slow down. Weirdly I'm grateful for my old man ailments, because my playing has become more expressive and my personality comes through much more (I also stopped trying to sing and play at the same time, as I ended up as the singer because no one else would; I never developed any passion for it - it was a decade of distraction and disconnection from guitar for me, even though I was still technically playing guitar).

How can we get a chart of these chords

Jimmy Wyble had a scale with a b3 #4. C scale with these alterations = G harmonic major. He found that sound!

I never was able to get a sound I liked with my Boss compressor, and I eventually sold it. Something about it sounded artificial. I've also worked very hard to develop a good touch and control of dynamics, and I don't really want that messed with. And yes, amps and other pedals and such add compression. Eric and I are both Strymon Deco tape saturation fans. I leave that on with the saturation turned down low, just to thicken things a touch and I think that is (partly) a subtle compression effect (less subtle on the cassette setting, which seems to squash a bit), especially when you dig in a bit.

Good stuff Maynard!

I would like to thank everyone who has left encouraging comments about this video, i am honored to have been involved and I’d also like to thank Adam for being so generous with his platform. I’d also like to thank all the other fantastic teachers who created and shared their videos and presented their teaching so clearly and soulfully.

This is great. I shared it with some other folks that i know play guitar and its given me a things to practice/process. Thanks

Tim Lerch is national treasure, thank you everyone who contributed. superb video and thank you Adam, im a fan of your playing!

I watched this yesterday, and this morning I grabbed a guitar and wrote a little tune first thing after waking up. Thanks to both of you for the very inspiring talk.

Good God is this video gold! Thank you

tim lerch's cycle of 6th played reverse is also great

as usual, ted green was the genius!

Very interesting, thanks for the useful info!

Great info, love it, thanks!

Thanks for a wonderful solo classical guitar pieces rendition and the beautiful chord melody idea sharing played by you.

Extremely difficult for me to make those 5 fret stretches and I’ve tried a very long time.

David Becker's book Getting Your Improvising Into Shape is the best book on triads 🎸

By 3:06 into this post the first chord progression was the chords for “Let It Be” by The Beatles. 😂 ❤ Brilliant 🎸