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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to use 1 shape to create an entire lead, even playing over the chord changes! The best part is only 2 fingers are needed to do this, and you’ll be able to play these harmonies in any key, because there are no open strings.
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Major Harmony - Slow Walkthrough
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I really enjoyed this lesson. I now have arthritis in my hands so I can no longer play like I use to so, simple sounds that I can play is really appreciated.
Great stuff! Thanks! Back in the day Ry Cooder covered the Leadbelly song “On a Monday”. The song only has two chords, G and D. When Ry Cooder played the G chord he soloed in open D and when he played the D chord he soloed in open G.
Brian – as always – so good, so well thought of, and ingenious! THANKS!
Wow! This will really help me expand my understanding and use of double stops.
Brian, definitely a thumbs up to these ML lessons. They’re compact and concise and provide just enough new information that your disciples can follow up on with their hands on their instruments. Too many YouTube videos try to pack in way too much new material.
So Practical
Well this is a fun lesson Brian. I’ve been taking a couple of months off playing as Ifelt I needed a break but this one I think will get me back in the frame.
JohnStrat
This isn’t my kind of song style but this is my kind of stuff! Thank you. You should do the A shape. Just saying
As a beginner/intermediate for most of my time here, I do love drinking from the firehose every week.
Thanks
I also love these Micro Lessons, Brian, and this is even more brilliant than usual. Connecting all of these various chords as 3rds to play using just one shape is a very powerful way of making them stick. Love it!!
Thanks, you made that easy to visualize and use immediately..
Hi Brian,
That’s brilliant! It’s like being able to speak a language comprehensively with just one word (word = shape with two fingers).
Your constantly new perspectives on the fretboard really help me learn to read it over time. To learn a language, it’s not enough to just read one text. You have to read many different texts, and the different texts ultimately help to use it freely. It’s no different with music, and the way you teach it makes it easy and enjoyable for us.
All the best,
Georg
Excellent!! Check out at Chet Atkins album callecool lesson d Caribbean Guitar… He covers a Perry Como ballad called ‘Temptation’, instrumentally of course, And I can hear the connection between this and that even though I haven’t heard ‘that’ in years..
Still, it’s on the list. Getting that minor sound by moving the major up a half step…
Thank you!!
I like the micro lessons. This one really had me seeing chord shapes as I played the harmonies. Very helpful for me.
Love the way you laid out this concept. Thanks.
Great nugget! I love using harmonized thirds and this lesson just expanded my vocabulary of them. Pulling them out of the 6 and 9 chord and using the 4 chord have been hiding in plain sight all these years. Tarnation! Thank you Brian. Exploring the other chord shapes for harmonized thirds and fifths could make for more great lessons.
Brian, you have had so much influence on my playing and guitar knowledge I am just so grateful for you. Keep up the amazing lessons!
Fantastic lesson Brian, succinct, informative and so, so useful in many different ways. Thanks again Brian.
fun and informative, the hits keep coming.
any reason why you don’t fret with third finger also?
Another awesome one! You are on a roll Brian! Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Great lesson. Follow up micro lessons using the A and C shape would complete the tool box.
Fun lesson, easy to follow but loaded with great ideas. Thanks Brian
That was a concise explanation of some extremely useful concepts. Are you sure you’re allowed to be giving away the secrets to these magic tricks?
It takes two to tango; it takes two fingers to play harmonized leads all over the neck. Great lesson!
Nice lesson Brian! Now I have an idea of where all of those country western swing and pedal steel licks come from. This one’s a keeper for me.
Like it. Simple lesson that adds up to a lot. Learning to harmonize with 2 strings and also playing “just 2 strings”. I definitely need that practice, it’s a lot harder for me than it looks. Gonna get better!
Brian!!!!!!! Bist für mich der Allergrößte! Nun in Deutscher Sprache! Von der großartigen „Lesson“ bin ich platt! Für mich bist Du der Gitarren Gott Brian! Tausend Dank! Schön mit Dir Gitarre zu spielen und von Dir zu lernen! Das Leben kann sooooo schön sein!
I like the slow introduction into new things. Exploring the full lesson, makes the concepts clear (for me). Hopefully I’ll remember all this stuff.
Great and useful lesson! (As usual.) Love that guitar — please tell us about it!
Yes, please! Loved the lesson, but wondering about that cool guitar keeps distracting me!
That’s a Mule Resonator – here’s more info on that particular model: https://www.muleresophonic.com/products/33342-the-parr-mule
Hello Brian ! Could you make a tutorial about cuba or latin music please?
Greetings from Finland.
One of your best lessons!
Brian – You are absolutely the best cool idea man out there – barre none !!! Thank you !
Hello Brian,
If I had to choose the best of your lessons, I would have a hard time. They are all simply outstanding. Nevertheless, ep 413 is one of my absolute favorites. It’s such a great piece musically and there’s so much in it. I keep coming back to this lesson over the years. Beyond the music you’ve composed in ep 413, it has become a kind of handbook for me, a valuable reference work, so to speak.
You can reissue something like this lesson again and again and I’m sure it will be very well received.
All the best,
Georg
HUGE light bulb this time! I disagree with “easy,” of course, but this one will immediately jump on to my daily practice routine. I’ve been looking for those harmonized sets forever. Now maybe the cats can move back into my neighborhood. They left when I decided to try getting into triads, fingerstyle, and away from cowboy chords. One question. Looks like the minor 5 chord of a given chord is actually the 9th chord of the main chord. So is Em also A9 and F#m also A6? If so, another WOW moment. Your lessons continue to be the Best of the Net, imo. Been a Premium member for several years now. (I’ve trained my guitar teacher to say “this might be more approachable” instead of “this is easy,” a phrase which can discourage mid and low range students.)
Did I understand correctly; the harmony can be formed by pairing the chord’s First and Third (major) or Third and Fifth or Third and FlatSeventh – as long as the note pair is one of the chord tones (i.e. in the chord)? Or how do you make the harmony note pairs theoretically?
just follow the chord shapes to create these harmonies – it’s really that simiple
Briand , merci pour avoir fait une vidéo en français pour la première partie. C’est très intéressant… aurons-nous le plaisir d’en avoir plus,peut être des leçons complètes.
Merci encore
Gilles B.
Thanks Brian, could you talk a bit sometimes about the various guitars you use, some of them are just fascinating, like the one in this lesson. Best,
Thank you Brian! Always appreciate your teachings
I’ll second that regarding the guitars that you use. It would add an interest to tell us in each lesson what the model of guitar is that you are using. You have such a great collection.
Genius
My mind is blown! -)
Amazing lesson! It really inspired me to break down all of the 3rd’s and 6’s in the ‘E’ shape.
This has really expanded my understanding of double stops. I plan on doing the same thing for the other shapes as well.
Thank you so much for your teachings!
This Micro Lesson was absolutely great Brian ! Just catching up w my playin’ post the family holiday weekend !
I never leave comments, just sort of hang out in the back of the class, but this was a great lesson. It opened up a whole different train of thought and was a jumping off point for me to find different double stops with a couple other supporting shapes. So thank you, these are always great lessons. It’s fun to see myself improve and fall more in love with the instrument and songwriting because of it!
Brian this is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Easy to build triads from this for soloing?