Upcoming Livestream
Added 2025-06-18 15:00:13 +0000 UTCHey Everyone,
I'll be doing my monthly YouTube stream this Saturday, June 21st, 11:00 am, EST. A little early this month as I'll be busy the last weekend of June. Come hang out and ask me whatever questions you may have about anything guitar/music related, and I'll do my best to answer. If you can't make it, leave your questions in the comment section of this post.
As usual, link to the stream will be posted here shortly before we begin, and the entire stream will be re-playable after we finish if you can't make it.
See you there,
LoG
Comments
1.) if we play a 1 and a 7 at the same time in isolation all we are hearing is the relationship between those two notes, which will be dissonant because of the the distance between them. However when we throw in a 3rd and 5th, we are now also hearing the relationship between those notes and the 7th, which are not dissonant. Distance between 3 and 7 is a 5th (not dissonant), distance between a 5th and 7th is a 3rd (not dissonant). 2.) Extremely crucial to note that dissonance is not something that should be avoided by default. I hopefully try to say this in the videos, but that sound is not a bad thing. It just simply is what it is, dissonant. It is either a flavor that the person wants or the person doesn't want. It's not a good or bad spectrum, it's a smooth or tense spectrum. It's not a sound that needs to be avoided, but it is important to know what note choices will provide dissonance, so you can decide if that's what you'd like. 3.) Remember the note hierarchy concept is on a chord by chord basis. Meaning, the chord that you are playing over will determine the hierarchy. If you are playing over a major triad (just 135), the 7 will be a mildly dissonant note because of its relationship between the root of that chord. However if you then play a major 7 chord (1357), the note hierarchy will be different because the chord is different. The 7 will go from being a mildly dissonant note to a smooth sounding note, because it is now a chord tone and naturally exists inside that chord. I discuss doing this sort of thing in some of the early videos from the fretboard method if I'm not mistaken. I'll reiterate all of this in the live stream, but I'll post it here for reference!
LoG
2025-06-21 11:20:40 +0000 UTCWhy is it that a 1 and M7 interval pair sound so dissonant together, but when you add the M3 and P5 intervals to make it a Maj7 chord, it sounds so pretty all of a sudden? I thought according to the note hierarchy the M7 should be avoided because it's a half step below a chord tone... thanks!!!
Sakthi
2025-06-21 07:53:32 +0000 UTC
