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The way he talks in this video makes me feel like I'm actually sitting there with him in a class room, while I'm sitting here in my room alone answering "Yes" and "no" to this guy on my screen. Amazing tutorial I honestly cant believe this is free.

Thanks Steve!!! I’ve only watched 2 of your videos & you make sense to me!!! I feel encouraged ….. now I need to work on what you have so simply & easily conveyed.
Thank you for just being the natural teacher you were born to be!!!! … and not some ‘hyped up whizz kid super star’. Simplicity works for me…. you cover so much in a reasonable amount of time! Big thumbs up!!!!

The smartest scale teaching method I've come across, well done Steve.

5 years later I stumble into this video and the method unlocks and makes clear sooooooo many things. For a self taught musician like me this was A HUGE help. Thank you!

You, sir, are a VERY good teacher. I took piano lessons for 10 years when I was a kid and no one ever explained this fundamental concept to me (two different teachers). In one fell swoop you have unlocked a mystery that has plagued me for decades. Thank you !

I love the fact that he is promoting positivity in learning music. He has a lot of patience which is appreciated!

I studied theory in High School and it went right over my head, I’ve been playing guitar in many bands for the last 35 yrs....always memorizing “shapes” . You’re style of teaching is so down to earth and makes so much sense.... but I do know that is due to your own thorough understanding of music and knowing how to simplify these concepts.
Thank You Steve !!!!

God bless you Steve Stine. I fricken love playing guitar

wow, what a great teacher, its just one "aha" moment after another. 10 minutes with you is like 6 months by my self and a book.

Mind blown!🤯 I’ve watched almost all your videos, and understood the shapes on the fretboard but now I can visualize the notes as I play the shapes when I watched this video again! It’s slowly but surely getting there! Thanks for everything! You’re making it’s easy for me

This is amazing. Just goes to show what a good teacher can do. Thank you for putting this up for people like me. I have a tough time learning theory but this lesson was so simple to understand.

Been playing for 18 years by now, but yet I still find this more comprehensible than any of the tutoring or self-taught methods I've implemented into my development. Great instructions and very informative video!

Have been learning the guitar for a couple of years now, but the stuff Steve has taught me has completely blown my mind, and re-energized my desire to learn. Awesome.

Been at it for 40 plus years Steve, but learning so much from your lessons! Great lessons with a lot of insight. My playing is improving dramatically due to you.
Many thanks..🎶🎵🎸

Thank you for your easy to understand lessons Steve, I've been playing for most of my life about 32 years now and never known what I was actually playing. Very fascinating, fun and eye opening to see it all now with an actual understanding. You have been a tremendous benefit to my playing with your lessons in just a few half hour videos. Very glad I found you:)

Hi Steve, thanks a lot for these videos, i had quit playing guitar 10 years ago as i was not making any progress as i was simply playing blind, now i have decided to re-lean the guitar and your videos have been a guiding light. Thank you.

Steve, your guitar classes are always the best for my learning on Clip-Share! Thanks so much for all the great classes!

I am really enjoying your theory course and the way you're explaining the "why", thank you!

Wow simply amazing! I rarely comment on instructional videos unless it is well elaborated on enough to consider it a milestone or breaking point and you have just proved to be a phenomenal instructor. I will definitely check out your videos and subscribe.

This has been incredibly helpful! Thank you, Steve!

Brilliant teacher, explains everything in easy to understand bite size pieces. Keep up the great work Steve

Best guitar lessons I have ever seen. I have waited longer than I want to admit to learn this stuff but you make it easy at any level of experience. Thanks a million.

Steve you’re so gifted as a teacher! Pity I’ve only found you after 25 years of floundering on my own ..

Thank you so much for this video. You explained everything in such an awesome way. I've been trying to grasp these concepts for months but you managed to explain everything in less than 20 minutes.

You have explained it so easily , I was struggling to understand this theory !! Great teaching , thanks from India

Wow! Steve, thank you. This takes all of the mystery of music theory and makes it so easy to understand and learn. No more feeling like I’m just memorizing myself into a box!

I've just now discovered this video in December 2019. I am so grateful for it. Thank you so, so much. I took my high school piano class some 35 years ago. If my teacher had explained things the way you do, I might have actually learned to play an instrument, and so grateful for that.

This is by far the most useful video I've watched this year! I was learning the 7 shapes, but now that I know how they are counted, I can probably figure it out more on the fly! Thanks for making this video!

It's been over 6 months since I saw this video. It also helped me with learning the Circle of Fifths, and taught me the importance of writing it down. Now I know that the major scale of:
C = has no sharps or flats, it's neutral.
G = has 1 sharp
D = has 2 sharps
A = has 3 sharps
E = has 4 sharps
B = has 5 sharps
And so on.

Best teacher on the internet you explain things very clearly thanks from someone who has been playing for about 50 years but never was it explained to me so clearly. Thank You great shows.

I've been a Bass and Guitar teacher for 26 years. I like instructional videos mostly for different teaching methods. The arrow at 3-4 and 7-8 has made my teaching method so much more understanding. For the rest of you watching, here is proof that there is always something to be learned and it doesn't matter who has the information you receive, just that you receive it.

Instant subscribe! I've been putting off learning this stuff for so long thinking it would be a nightmare, but you've explained it so simply! Thank you so much

Thank you! Excellent lesson and so well explained. Finally able to get my head around scales!

Great teacher. Love your videos. As a total rookie, you've been a huge help.

Just started learning along with my two daughters (13 & 11), this has been invaluable. Many thanks.

Totally invaluable lesson - I could never get my head around the scales with the sharps and flats. This video explained it so well... thanx Steve, really appreciate your work.

I love the way you explain things. You have really helped me visualize theory and apply it in a functional way.

Great lesson !! Excellent explanation, easy to understand, thank you so much!

Thank you, this is really a great lesson in music theory. Very simple to understand.

Wow! Just wow! Sir, that makes everything clear! You're such an amazing teacher.

Bloody brilliant, Steve. In all my years of dabbling in music theory, I've never heard it explained any better or more simply. Instead of just trying to memorize the number of sharps and flats in a given key, I can now figure it out on my own. Thanks!

I watched this like six months ago and it made so much sense and I'm watching it again today and it is making more and more sense. Thank you Steve. Hopefully I would cry less now

Wow this is awesome. Thank you Steve. I don’t know why I haven’t learned this sooner and why everybody else makes this so complicated. They babble on about Circle of 5ths and then make it overly complicated. I learned so much from this one lesson. Thank You 🙏🏻

Thank heavens for Steve! So easy to understand and inspiring - I feel I'm getting somewhere now with theory.

Wow, this lesson put a lot of pieces together for me from years of music lessons. Thanks!!

What a great lesson. Straight to the point too! Thank you!

Thank You Sir! For an amazing and easy to understand lesson. Please can you make one on "Minor Scales"?

I love it when it all clicks and connects together, much appreciated Steve!

That was mind blowing! Finally someone who makes this understandable. Thanks a lot. Truly amazing!

Absolutely great lesson, you have made the logic behind major scales a lot clearer. Very helpful

Dear Steve ... I just wanted to compliment you as a guitar teacher. I am an advanced player/theorist but I'm also a guitar junkie ... in other words, I am what the world needs, another damned guitar player! I started watching all the different guitar teachers on Clip-Share and even though I already 'knew' 99% of what was being taught I got interested in the various approaches that were used to teaching various elements of theory as applied to the guitar fret board. If Clip-Share had been around when I started to learn guitar, I'd've been a rockstar and dead along time ago ... lol. I stand on the shoulders of giants on most things I 'know', and in the case of guitar and guitar theory, I was taught by one of the best teachers on the planet in the 1980's down in New Orleans, by the great Hank Mackie.
I was watching various 'teachers' on Clip-Share explaining modes and most of them just seemed to confuse the issue which reminded me of Hank Mackie's first lesson when I eventually got pointed to him by better players than I was back then. I had about every issue of Guitar Player Magazine and I struggled quite often to understand the lessons in the back ... and in particular, at that point in my playing life, what was confusing me was modes and so I had a bunch of vague questions for Hank ... he just said to me, 'Forget all of that man! There's the Major scale, the Pentatonic scale, and maybe a jazz minor, a gypsy minor etc. but that's it. .... all of the modes being just a different starting tonic note in the major scale ... 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc' ... which cleared up a whole bunch of stuff immediately. ... So when I got to you on Clip-Share when I was watching the confused teaching on modes, that was exactly your approach so I took to you right away. And all the other stuff you teach have that same clear quality to them ... very good man! I pick up stuff from you all the time just because I'm an old retired rock star and am always playing guitar now that I have the time ... (I was an audio engineer for 40 plus years and rarely got to play much because I was recording others etc. I built 3 studios in that time span and so I was really an 'engineer' ... the last one was damned near perfect ... made me smile just walking in ... eventually I didn't even have to check my mixes in the car, on boom boxes because I was so confident of the control room I designed being 'the truth' in what I was hearing).
Anyway ... sorry ... I'm just waffling ... but I wanted to tell you how much I appreciated your clear, friendly style of teaching ... (I've actually started practicing your lessons on 'speed picking' which is not something I really concentrated on because I'm not a 'shredder') ... I always tell any kid I'm teaching what Hank Mackie taught me and what you mentioned during the beginning lesson ... 'Slow down, the speed will come on its own'.
Really humans can only really concentrate for about 15 minutes maximum so for technique I tell people that ... spend 10 to 15 minutes a day, (usually when you're fresh in the morning), SLOWLY practicing (whatever technique or style you're trying to learn), and making sure your technique is right ... thumb center back, finger per fret etc. and do it as slowly as you can ... 10 to 15 minutes a day, then forget about it and have fun .... amazing ... all things being equal, anyone is just 30 days away from being competent in anything ... not just guitar licks, techniques or styles ...
Thanks again
Richard

I am glad I found this video! I have been struggling with understanding the major scale theory and this is the best and clearest explanation I have seen. Thank you.

Thank you Steve. A great lesson, you explain things very well. I'll be sure to go back over your other videos

Steve, you are an incredible instructor, I've been paying for quite some time but never really understood theory, thank you for being so understandable in your presentation! You rock

Brilliant lesson. This man was undoubtedly born to teach. Thank you!!!

Great job Steve I have learned so much from you. Best guitar/music teacher on Clip-Share!

Probably one of the best, and most direct, explanations of music keys and theory for them presented by anyone. Well done, Steve. Kudos. ;-)

Great lesson Steve Stine! I'm not a guitarist myself, but your instructions are clear to me, so your teaching skill is top!

I never heard that detailed explanation!! Can’t thank enough. Also thanks so much for taking up these lessons👏🏽🙏🏽

Thank you very much for this. I've wondered about this very subject for years. My gratitude for sharing your knowledge and understanding.

Brilliantly easy to understand. Thank you, Steve!

This was amazing, thank you for everything!

This was awesome, you helped me so much!! Love this man. Staying tuned, and subscribed to the channel!! Rock on

Learners nowadays are so lucky to have access to this level of quality tuition. I wish I could turn back time.

This has to be one of, if not the best, tutorial videos on Clip-Share. Thank you 👍

Thank you much Steve! This video helps me in understanding my theory in guitar. More power!👍🏼😊

The most complete and simplest explanation. Thank you.

Great video! Thank you for the instruction. I am a beginner to music and have heard that the notes B and E do not have sharps or flats. Obviously, you have shown otherwise. Could you explain this?

I really appreciate this video. I've seen others that didn't simplify learning these scales as much as you have. Thank you!

Thankyou for this video, I learned music playing the clarinet but never understood chord progressions. I have studied many theory books but you made this so simple. Finally it makes sense.

Took lessons over 20 years ago. Life got in the way. Now at 74 I'm back at it. This was the clearest explaination of a scale I've seen. Kudos!

Nothing is ever simple. I appreciate these tutorials greatly though. Keep it up Steve

Wow, so well explained and broken down it's giving me hope
(I can do this)

Even though I've probably been playing longer than you've been alive, I enjoy watching you explain things to beginners. And the comments are cool: so many people getting the Bb/A# thing. I actually never had a problem with this, even though I'm pretty much self-taught, but it's just great to see you giving people their own Eureka! moments.

Easily the best explanation I've seen for this. Thank you!!

Great lesson,very accurate from what I remember years ago! Thanks for this refreshing lesson! Also,I have that same guitar,but with a maple fret board!

Thank you Steve, your way of explaining surely helps Thanks a ton and wish you the best

Great Steve, I always wondered why there were two designations for the same notes, it seemed like preference perhaps. I've been playing bass for 54 years & find that these points were always true but never knew why, I always called everything sharps, you cleared that up in 19 minutes, Thanks, Ronnie

Whoa. My mind is blown. I have been playing at guitar for about sixteen years and have probably just quadrupled my music theory knowledge by watching this video! Thanks!

This is the best explanation I have found on music theory...period! Thank you Steve!

You're an awesome guitar instructor, man. I really appreciate it.

Without a doubt one of the best theory lessons I’ve seen. Cheers for the education. I’ve been playing half my life and learnt more watching your channel and playing along that I’ve done “noodling” ... thanks 👍

Really informative and well communicated ! Thanks Steve

Teacher who will teach you so simply without killing the thrill for playing guitar in you. Every teacher should see you teaching. I understood everything even if my English is not so good as I wish (you can see my grammar). Thx. I appreaciate what you do

Really really good teacher. Wish I’d found this guy 30 years ago. Thank you.

Thank you! Finally, someone explain this in an understandable way!

Wow!!! Never understood this before! Only ever learned scales without breaking them down. Thank you!!!

Thank you sir! You make things clearer in the most easy way!

Your teaching style is so to my liking!!! Whenever I watch any of your videos, I always end up feeling like you're the good-news instructor! Lol! Really tho, I learn without undue anxiety from your lessons. You organize so much for us; you cover new material in an encouraging way, giving me & others confidence that we can learn it and use it. Your style is not overwhelming. If this sounds a bit much, I truly want to give you praise, & thank you for being so thoughtfully helpful!!! Very greatful & happy to have your instruction!!!

Steve, great instruction you make the music theory fun to learn, thanks so much I look forward to the next video, Geoff

This is one one of the best music theory classes I have seen on youtube! This is a completely different perspective and makes a lot of sense, an eye opener for me was on why we call it Bflat and not A#. thanks for this class.

Nicely done. I spend a lot of time trying to explain this same simplicity to people (who ask me about theory).

This is the best explanation I’ve ever heard of this! Thank you 😊

Благодарю, Стив!!!
Очень интересно и познавательно!!!

Wow, just found this on the channel. It makes so much sense and is so easy to see how the scale works. Thx, Steve.

Went through some riffs I had already learned and started immediately identifying what scale they were in as I watched this video. This is actually pretty cool. Hoping that learning this stuff will make it easier to learn stuff by ear.

Ahhhhhh, my quest to find my perfect guitar Sensei is complete.

Great video. The way you break down this concept makes something I thought I knew make even more sense. Thank you!

Can't believe how much easier you make learning this--time for me to get the course!