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#142 - Circle Of Fifths - Best Way To Learn Scales FAST?

🕑 Added 2020-12-30 14:00:13 +0000 UTC

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James Nelson

same

James Nelson

when 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

Nehru

nice lesson

Raphaël Klemm

I 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.

Justin Peeler

Definitely had an a-ha moment. I still have lots of work to do to get this down but the lesson definitely helped.

Charlie Brink

Lots of 'a-ha!' moments for me in this lesson. Thanks man.

Steve Shaw

that's it, just trying to remember a way of adding the sharps and flats quickly to any key. Thank you. Happy New year.

Wojtek Kozłowski

Maybe 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?

Gary Beltrami

Great 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.

p4tt4nz

Love the music theory videos! I really need to get better at it so keep them coming:)

Jeffrey Calabrese

Great lesson, Bernth. Thank you. Happy New Year!

Misha Graboi

That'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.

Steve Shaw

Thanks 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!!!

Paul Gibson

at 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

Dominic Vermeulen-Smith

Think 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.

Robert Treviño Jr

Holy shit... a light bulb just went on!!

Raf Aarts

C 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 ...

Christophe

Loved 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

Michael Schurtz

Awesome! I‘ll practice the sh*t out of that exercise - Thanks!

Kris Stengel

For everyone's reference the Octave Triangle is in lesson #32: Easy Note Location Tricks | Guitar Fretboard Memorization Exercises

Steve Shaw

Is 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.

Arvid Richter

Maybe 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)