Jaden Kim teaches how to move smoothly between guitar chords by mapping each note to its scale degree within the key. He walks through a 2-5-3-6 progression in A♭, showing how to identify chord notes by their numeric position, then apply those patterns across different chords.
Yo, if you know how to play some songs, play some chords, but you have absolutely no idea how to connect them or make it fluid been playing between them, I'm going to show you exactly how to do that. So how do you go from this. To this? So the short answer is, know where everything that you're playing lies on the tonal map. For example, the progression I was playing was 2, 5, 3, 6. So if you're not at the point where you know exactly what number each chords you're playing are like, you're already. You're like, behind the starting line. You can't go anywhere from there if you don't know where you are. And so, more specifically, to extrapolate that idea, we're gonna take it into a real example. But basically, you have to. Once you know, like, the roots of the chords, the next step is to know every note that's in your chord. And. And then it's very obvious, based on your knowledge of the major scale, how to add and how to embellish. And so let's just take this concept that I was doing and let's just apply it to one of those chords. So, for example, this two chord that I was playing, so I'm in the key of A flat, right? So my A flat's one. I got a B flat, minor seven here as a two. Right? This specific voicing I'm playing is. I'm just going to say fret numbers. At first, we've got six, eight, and then the rest are all six. Right? I'm just borrowing that. And so the most important thing that you need to be aware of is, like, what exactly are all of these notes? And how can you find out if you don't know? So first of all, I'm going to assume that you have knowledge of the major scale on the tonal map. If you don't, you should watch some of my older videos. But basically, any chord shape that you have, if you know where the root is, you basically just play your scale and match it up to all the notes that you're playing. So this specific voice, let's say I know the shape. I don't know all these notes. So what do I do? Well, I start with two, three, four on one string. I can play five on the next string. And then six, like, oh, that's one of the notes on my chord, two and six. Okay, great. And even with just these two notes, you can start to see how if I have. If I know that this is two and this is six, well, I can Go six, seven, one, seven, six, six, six, five, four, five, six. Right. So that even right there, that is the shell. That is like the infantile version of what I was doing. I was just playing more notes. But if you know where you are, then you can go somewhere. But if you don't know where you are, you can't go anywhere meaningfully. Right, so let's keep going. So we have two, six. So after six, I can play seven on the same string and then half the mobility to one, which is going to be on the same Fret as my 2. So then I have 2, 6, and 1. Well, if this is my little chord shape, I know that that's one. Well, I can play like, you know, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Right. All over my II chord. Right? Is this making sense? So then the next note of my chord be 1, 2, 3, 4. So now my whole voicing would look like S2, 6, 1, 4. Same here. 4, 5, 6, 1, 7, 6, 5. Right. And I'm aware of everything that I'm doing, right? If I'm going 3, 4, 5, or.
3, 4, 6, 1, 3, 2, 1, 7, 6, 5, 4.
Right. Keeping aware of just everything. I know where I am. If this seems overwhelming, watch some of my earlier videos. And also I'll talk about it later. But there's going to be something in the description that's going to help you go through this in a more structured, methodical, digestible way. But let's just keep going for now. Chapter four holds up to five. And then we could go to six here. And by the way, all these notes that I'm saying are relative to the key of the music. So, right, so this is six. But we're also always relating that to the key of a flat here. Right? But six is like the flat fifth of two. So now my voicing looks like this. 2, 6, 1, 4, 6. And it's like on this B string, I have 6, 7, 1.
Right, seven, six.
Right. Is this making sense? Like how easy this can be to link your chords together, but you have to just know where you are. And then, of course, our last one is this. Is this two up here again? Or. Excuse me. Right, it's two here. So it's like 2, 3, 4, 3, 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2. The first step is just to be able to do this on one chord. Right? So I'm gonna say the number. I'm gonna say what's going on in my mind. So I've got six of it. Sorry, guys. 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 7, 6, 4, 3, 4, 2, 2.
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 7, 6, 5, 6, 6. And 1, 2, 3, 2nd, 3, 2.
And then from that like you just extrapolated to other chords, right? So the first, the, the two chords I was playing is like this two. And then I was kind of playing this like five sus voicing. And so the great thing is that all the map stays the same, right? So if I have 3, 2, 1, 7, 6 over the 2 chord, over the 5 chord, it's still 3, 2, 1, 7,. So you're developing this map, but you get a lot of bang for your buck because it doesn't change based on the chord, right? And then you just do that for all your chords. But the bottom line is you need to be aware of where you are at all times, every note that you're playing. And I know it seems like it can be a little overwhelming at first, but this is the discipline of like, are you looking for a shortcut here? Music is a long game and the, the long way is the short way. So I hope you can see how this approach, in this way of just being aware of everything that you're doing is like really the only way forward. Because what else are we going to do? Just not be aware of what we're doing. And this is the work and this is a framework that gives you the most bang for your buck. And so when you're in jams, like, this is how you move away from just. And then, you know, like if somebody else is soloing, you're able to do these little interjections, you know?
Right.
So then even when you're not soloing, You're still able to participate in musical conversation. It's so much more exciting than just holding down a chord shape that you only know geometrically and just. So, yeah, there's work to do for a lot of us. Right. So like I mentioned earlier, if you actually are interested in this, if you want to learn this more thoroughly, check out the link in the description. It's going to take you through this on a much more methodical, structured path afterwards. If you're interested in working with me personally and getting some hands on help with your playing, that's also, you know, you'll find out more after you watch the video and get your free lessons. In the meantime, enjoy. Have a beautiful journey. Leave any questions in the comments and deuces.
