Comments on: How to transpose chord progressions

By: ed

ed — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:06:10 +0000

Good to see you still at it Dan. I never even thought of the shirt as the listening seemed more important to me.
You have sent me a great review of the basics of numbered progressions and how it is figured in to the scales. The transposition example was very clear to me, perhaps all those singers I worked with in the past helped.
The parallel major/minor works I find rather sour although the point was made about resolving in minor or major chords the a minor in this example is not pleasing to my ear.
Each lesson you give is a benifit to all guitar players, new or old.
Thanks Dan

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:36:00 +0000

Enough teasing! Get it released!
Looks good so far!

By: Don

Don — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:30:54 +0000

Hey Dan !
Loved the second video, but, the first one was confusing, as it didn’t show the progression being played in D, before you talked about transposing it to A.
Your fellow Christian musician friend,
Don

By: Agardino

Agardino — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:42:07 +0000

Hey Dan. I do not understand much about chords and progressions or chord construction since I am very new to guitar. I have been watching and listening many times over the videos you’ve sent me and have to say the way you explain all these lessons shows patience and true desire to transmit your knowledge to the student. I realize understanding will come study and one must go from one to ten, and so, although I may not understand completely these bits the ways and manner of your teaching will make these clear by taking the complete course. I am on my way to get the first since I am a novice Novice, but I am completely sure I’ll progress to the others. Thank you for continuing to include me by sending these videos.
Have you thought of creating in the future a sort of encyclopedia of guitar learning?

By: Gerd Cuppens

Gerd Cuppens — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:04:04 +0000

First of all: excuse me for clerical errors: I live in Belgium and speak dutch. The second video in this mail of yours made me feel really content.For years I play the guitar, picking up bits and pieces of theoretical knowledge and practical dexterity along the way, to get as much pleasure as possible out of it without having to study like an academic or having to train myself to pick with lightning speed: I’m lazy but eager to learn.I started to analyse chord progressions in songs that sound like “easy” to play and yet valuable and intriguing, practising the virtue to compose my own. I felt and noticed through analysing that the intriguing effect mostly isn’t created but by means of chords in the progression that aren’t proper to the root scale and still in a mysterious and teasing manner seak their way to resolve in a root that might even be far away but still so blood-related to the one you started from. One of the bits and peeces of theory I picked up as a reference were fragments of theory of harmony about the circle of quints,f.e. a II-V-I progression. In your video, you showed me that composers also use the “parallel major scale” to modulate the chords in a progression. The glorious,liberating feeling that was roused by the final chord in the video was generated by ending and resolving the chord progression into the major root chord in stead of the expected minor root chord (”pickery thirtd”?). I mean: you learned me one of the secret formulas to rouse a good feeling , playing and improvising over modulating chord progressions. The value of that secret is directly proportional to its simplicity: it’s a Eureka, “es ist eine aha - erlebnis”. So I’m really looking forward to the release of your Ultimate Guide To Chords. Thank you, sir: you made my day.

By: Flavio

Flavio — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:13:48 +0000

Really cool to understand how some out-of-scale chords are derived from. Thanks,
Flavio C. Sauda

By: Andrew Koblick

Andrew Koblick — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:52:27 +0000

Excellent presentation! I am sure this will help
alot of folks! Keep up the good work!

By: Tom Bell

Tom Bell — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:00:44 +0000

I’ve alway wondered how I could change keys to gain a “heightened” effect for the last verse or portion of a song in church. Transposing to the perfect Vth seems to work! You are really a gifted teacher. Let me know when the “Ultimate Guide to Chords” becomes available!

By: David M.

David M. — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:12:33 +0000

Dan! I have been playing for about 40 years now, Off and on, mostly off. Now that I am retired I want to get more serious about my guitar playing. What you have shown to me has really helped. Thank you very much.
David M.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:30:18 +0000

Dan,
I have found your calm/laid back demeanor to be a huge benefit to learning guitar via this media. You slow things down and work hard to make sure your students understand whats going on. That is appreciated. By far the best DVD teacher out there.