#142 - Circle Of Fifths - Best Way To Learn Scales FAST?
Added 2020-12-30 14:00:13 +0000 UTCThis week's lesson is extremely important! Let's check out how to use the circle of fifths to learn, understand, and memorize scales FAST.
The music theory knowledge in this video will allow you to switch between major and minor keys in a fluid and musical way and this was a big game-changer for me. We checked out the circle of fifths last year already, but I felt like I didn't explain this system well enough in that video!
This time we focus on more practical examples and also check out the recommended exercise once again. Please don't forget to download your tabs and additional files for this lesson below :)
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James Nelson
2022-11-01 11:02:40 +0000 UTCwhen u say key change do u mean like its gone from c major to g major or a g major chord is just being played and this a way to accent the chord
James Nelson
2022-11-01 11:01:09 +0000 UTCnice lesson
Nehru
2021-11-23 05:58:30 +0000 UTCI really need some extended lessons and exercises on this one. I feel there's a key here, but I need help to figure it out and put it in practice.
Raphaël Klemm
2021-04-07 18:58:32 +0000 UTCDefinitely had an a-ha moment. I still have lots of work to do to get this down but the lesson definitely helped.
Justin Peeler
2021-01-06 04:07:38 +0000 UTCLots of 'a-ha!' moments for me in this lesson. Thanks man.
Charlie Brink
2021-01-05 05:54:18 +0000 UTCthat's it, just trying to remember a way of adding the sharps and flats quickly to any key. Thank you. Happy New year.
Steve Shaw
2021-01-03 13:59:11 +0000 UTCMaybe it's the 7th? C - no # or b. in G the sharp is the 7th. Then in D you keep the one you've sharpen in G and sharpen the 7th again. And so on. Is this what you were wondering about?
Wojtek Kozłowski
2021-01-03 02:21:36 +0000 UTCGreat lesson. "Looking at scale boxes"....I felt like he was talking to me. Going to really work on this. I've looked at the circle of 5ths but never really looked at it through this lens. I've always done shapes and patterns rather than learning notes and theory.
Gary Beltrami
2021-01-02 21:10:50 +0000 UTCLove the music theory videos! I really need to get better at it so keep them coming:)
p4tt4nz
2021-01-02 13:16:09 +0000 UTCGreat lesson, Bernth. Thank you. Happy New Year!
Jeffrey Calabrese
2021-01-01 07:04:43 +0000 UTCThat's a cool way to look at it. I memorize the order as BEAD + GCF. For flats it goes in order, for sharps, it goes backward. C major and A minor on top, then wind around to left and right. Order of sharps starts from 11 o'clock and goes clockwise. Order from flats starts from 5 o'clock and goes counterclockwise.
Misha Graboi
2021-01-01 03:14:22 +0000 UTCThanks for the reply, I think when I look at it, going clockwise on the circle its the note before the key you are going to that you sharpen and going anticlockwise its the note of the next key on the circle you flatten....I think!!!
Steve Shaw
2020-12-31 15:57:26 +0000 UTCat the moment i only see lots of shapes to remember there are 5 boxes of the c major scale you have shown us in one position at 8th fret now we have to work out the other positions seems like a lot of work oh welll could be worse
Paul Gibson
2020-12-31 14:58:44 +0000 UTCThink I'm the same as Christphe ^^ I don't see the notes on the fretboard instinctively, but it's becoming clearer through these videos that this would be very useful. If nothing else, just seeing the same scale in a different shape / place I immediately start coming up with loads of fresh riff ideas. Immediately busts me out of landing on the same patterns over and over.
Dominic Vermeulen-Smith
2020-12-31 11:24:01 +0000 UTCHoly shit... a light bulb just went on!!
Robert Treviño Jr
2020-12-31 03:19:54 +0000 UTCC had no sharps, G has one which is F#, D has 2 sharps which is F# and C# , it follows the circle to the right starting from F ...
Raf Aarts
2020-12-30 20:11:56 +0000 UTCLoved this video. Though my fretboard visualisation is based on intervals (I see the root note on the segment of the fretboard I want to play then I see all the other intervals, not note names, from the root note i.e. major scale formula is 1234567) it is always useful and inspiring to work on other type of visualisation. And thanks for the backing track
Christophe
2020-12-30 19:23:05 +0000 UTCAwesome! I‘ll practice the sh*t out of that exercise - Thanks!
Michael Schurtz
2020-12-30 19:21:59 +0000 UTCFor everyone's reference the Octave Triangle is in lesson #32: Easy Note Location Tricks | Guitar Fretboard Memorization Exercises
Kris Stengel
2020-12-30 16:58:01 +0000 UTCIs there a rule to remember which sharp and flat you add as you go round the circle? Its probably staring me in the face but I cannot see it..........they say the stupidest question is the one you do not ask.
Steve Shaw
2020-12-30 16:18:15 +0000 UTCMaybe you can put up some follow the chord changes with that appoach. I am beginning to understand that I don't have to move in leaps across the fretboard in scale shapes, but can actually also remain at a position and just alter the apropriate note(s)? Provided I know the notes (I must brush up on visualizing them)
Arvid Richter
2020-12-30 14:57:37 +0000 UTC
