harmonizing the major scale

[janmurph]

Now your just showin off.....

[icespeckledhens]

thanks a great video, one thing the top Cmaj7 is not a full bar chord is it?

[johnhguitar]

Could be if you want it to be.

[Tapiola2007]

Hi, that's a great lesson. I found it useful as a kicking off point for playing modes of the C major scale with each harmonised chord. I'm not great with theory but the C major is a good scale to work with as there are no sharps or flats, making it easy to work out the intervals (whole step/half step). Thanks for the inspiration!

[TheodoreKalantzakos]

Nice video!

[metachozoite]

im having a melody I am having trouble finding chords to put over ...it is remenicent of joe satrians crushing day.....how can I figure out what chords can go ove rit? just fiddle with it? get a chord book? also Im having trouble figuring out what chords go over what scales...so far my mode of thinking is if I have a dorian I can use a minor g major b minor ect...is this the right mode of thinking on this?

[johnhguitar]

When I think of music I come at it from every direction. However, it's easier for me to write lines over chords.

If you're in the key of C major, Dmin Emin Fmaj G7 Amin Bminb5, would be standard chords people might use simply because of the correct use of theory. In truth any thing that sound good is OK. You have to decide at any point.

[metachozoite]

@johnhguitar hummm...understood...and i now also umnderstand why it takes satriani years to come up with new songs...it really does take quite a while to compose something yrou happy about....quite a while...

[gnr2391]

what gibson model guitar is this guy playing? sounds great!

[johnhguitar]

ES 335

[mentalproductions1]

@johnhguitar he man that's Lucille's big brother :) right on

[theelfman]

great lesson, many thanks. Really helped :-)

[georgemnrs]

2:08 these are the names of the notes in greek...are you greek? ;p

[wannabehendrix]

Excellent. Will your book be available through your website?

[johnhguitar]

thanks go to amazon

[wannabehendrix]

@johnhguitar Did it. Just ordered a copy. Been thru a few lessons in my journy bro and yours is the most straight to the point. Thanks for the posts.

[shootingbuddys]

@johnhguitar whats the name of the guitar you are using

[meegel]

i want your guitar dude, sounds so good

[willy346]

You do very good lesson. I learn alot thank you!

Oh and btw i love how you finger pick everything im starting to do it now lol.

[conifergreen]

Awesome explanation!

[18646]

This helped me:)

[crovedran]

This is very useful, thnx!

[colemontelongo]

interesting .....

[MrMaur0]

great!

[rawhemi]

hi please send me your guitar thanks

[AlbondigasDeMierda]

@rawhemi

epic lol

[dmonks40]

i love arguments over music theory!!!

[DirigetDeus]

This is good series of lessons on harmonizing the scale. Thank you.

When is the book out, definitely be picking that up.

[johnhguitar]

The book will be out in January, thanks for asking. It's going to be called "Guitar Workout".

[jonathan1994yee]

ok im confused ill stick to tamborine haha

[greyhall1]

The way you demonstrate the 7th degree chord is modern harmony. In classical harmony & older books the 7th degree chord is a dim7 chord & not the "half diminished/min7flat5chord. In cmaj you played the notes B,D,F,A. In classical harmony you'd play B,D,F,Aflat. A flat of course is not in the key of cmajor.

[johnhguitar]

As in pop and jazz:

Cmaj7 = Imaj7

Dmin7 = IImin7

Emin7 = IIImin7

Fmaj7 = IVmaj7

Gdom7 = V7

Amin7 = VImin7

Bmin7b5 = VIImin7b5

All as I was taught.

Can you better explain the Ab in the VII-b5 chord for classical harmony? Thanks

[regor147]

john, great info...but check your tab on the dm7 it's wrong on the d string...shld be 7fret not 6 and b string shld be 6 not 7

[jimihendrix1975]

thx thx thx thx thx and thx again.after playing 17 years i figure out how to create chord progressions .THX

[GoombaGoone]

Ok I am offically confused... was useing lets say...d dorian with an d minor seven and then makeing up things that sounded cool with it....so how can i master this?

[johnhguitar]

I have a book coming out soon that goes deeply into ways to vary a scale to develop melodic lines. It sounds like you're doing fine. What's up? Keep experimenting...

[Testacabeza]

When is the book going to be released?

[johnhguitar]

It's being edited at the moment....

[tutah101]

how can i use major scales in a song?????.

how can i improvise them??????

[StopTheMoti0n]

if the song is in the key of G, play the G major scale. if it is in the key of B flat use the B flat major scale. if it is in the key of... etc.

[BlizterSoup]

so how would you harmonize a minor scale? same technique?

[johnhguitar]

A minor is the same notes and chords as C major. You just call A the #I chord B the #II chord ,etc. Understand?

[BlizterSoup]

I forgot about the whole "relative minor" thing. Gotcha, I understand now. Thanks man!

[wc3415]

is this your favorite guitar? u use it alot

[GoombaGoone]

ok this is confusing as hell...i have always been told just to use the notes of the scale your useing. so i a i would use

a b c d e f g a .....make them major or minor according to taste and go from there...will this theory work? or is there a certian pattern? if there is could you please share with me?

[Acr2440]

That A scale would have to be minor for it to use abcdefga so you would have to start with a minor chord and for each new chord only use those notes- major or minor isn't by taste- its by which notes are part of the scale.