Unlocking The Secret to Beautiful Chords

Kevin Nickens
Kevin Nickens
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Published 2024-01-30
Here's the video about 7th chords! Hope this helps. Also I totally stole the format for the opening joke from Dave Barry so there I admit it.

Bar Chord Video:    • How to Play Bar Chords (Fully Explained)  

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All Comments (21)
  • @chunkywabbit4655
    Hello Kevin! I'm a 17 year old guy who's been classically trained in vocals. Got myself a guitar last year, and I instantly started learning pieces from Polyphia, Malmsteen, Vai and Guthrie. I paid absolutely no heed to learning any type of theory, and I could only shred through about a dozen songs I learnt and nothing more. Your and Bernth's lessons over the last week have instantly improved my ability to improvise, and have taught me a bunch of theory that I was applying without realizing (for example, Guthrie uses D# Minor 7 in the chord progression of his piece "Waves".) I thank you immensely for not locking this trove of pure knowledge behind a paywall. I would not even consider going through these lessons without them being recommended for free by YouTube... I wish with all my heart that you become successful as a teacher to us students. If I ever actually get any good at guitar, I'll always credit you as my teacher.
  • @steveshepard5242
    Buddy’s got better production quality and smooth smooth audio than most gold play buttons out there. Keep on keepin on king.
  • @firemonkey1015
    You explain this stuff better than anyone else on this platform, seriously good work. Also the fact you explained that you didn’t only mean the C major scale, but all of them work is something I know but to someone as a beginner would likely be very confused. It’s great how you spotted that and clarified, those are common mistakes that a lot of “teachers” on this platform make.
  • @mocha_umu
    this video actually made this instrument make sense. wow.
  • @rakzo7133
    top level humour . lovely . please dont stop
  • @KevinsdadNorb
    My guitar didn’t even come with a C chord much less 7th chords
  • @Joel.Bardewa
    Love this video! Everyone always just shows chord shapes, and that's it, but you showed how to use them. Love your videos, man. One of the greatest guitar teachers here on YouTube, I'll always remember you by using what you taught. Thanks man!
  • @10ooic
    😀 Thank you Kevin for these simple and effective explanations. 🎸 At work ! 7th chords, here we go...
  • @vicjames3256
    Anyone watching this, take this from some rando who's played guitar for a long time, these video tutorials are top notch. I was lucky enough to have a teacher back in 2001 who broke it down this way, but there weren't many back then. If I could teach for shit, this is exactly how I'd do it. But I can't, so thank God there's Kevin and YT.
  • @massoddareez579
    Watched 20 seconds of the video and Kevin already got me laughin, absolute living legend😎
  • @thewinddb
    This was very well explained. Good video.
  • @ShallowBayXI
    I really appreciate these videos. A video on alternate picking technique would be awesome if you ever felt like making one :)