Why learn triads

They are quite literally the basis of traditional classical music. Look at any Bach chorale music, for example, and see how simple triads can be turned into amazing music. Just a few examples in the jazz world Listen to George Van Eps to hear how triads can be manipulated by putting them over different bass notes or moving lines within them. You can get some amazing harmony this way.

Check out his Triadic Chromatic method. Look at the books of Walt Weiskopf and Gary Campbell to see how to use pairs of triads for sources of improvisational material. Look at the book of Jerry Bergonzi on Hexatonics to see how triad pairs can be turned into 6 note scales with very unique and open sounds. Ignore them at your peril. Originally Posted by jeffstocksmusic.

Join Date Jul Posts Speaking as a self taught beginner who hasn't gone very far -- I've found that finding triads up and down the neck was the next thing after learning scales up and down the neck. That's how I'm learning to navigate. When I'm in a particular area, playing a particular pattern, and I want to learn it more deeply, if you know what I mean, I stop and try to figure out "What triads are implicated by this pattern?

Triads can serve like the dots on the fretboard, markers to help remind you where are you are, except they are imaginary. They provide context. No doubt at some point I'll need to liberate myself from this idea, in about ten years at the current rate. Originally Posted by bart Join Date Dec Location germany Posts One Word: Superimposing They are basics on one side and can be used for so many complex attempts on the other side Like Michael Brecker once said, when he was asked in an interview about what he practices all day long: "Triads!

Join Date May Posts 1, This segment is not, unfortunately, available on youtube. I can't, yet. I failed to mention that he does this very musically.

Knowing your triads min. All the best. Reminds me of a comment one of my colleagues at Berklee made many years ago. We were in a Guitar Department meeting. At the time, students were required to play I-IV-V triad cadences across the fingerboard in proficiency tests. Many students were reluctant to work on this. Mike Grady, a fellow teacher, and one of the finest guitarist I've ever met, expressed his exasperation. I tell them, if you want to play chord melody, you can play the melody note with a triad under it.

If you want to comp, play triads that are part of the chord. You want to play 'outside', play triad over a bass note. They just don't get it. I miss his playing. But I've been exploring what he suggested about triads for almost 40 years now and have just scratched the surface. Steve Khan's Chord Khancepts book is based mainly on triads and guide tones, and this book has some advanced music. I am going to put in a plug for Steve Carter's site.

Thank you for the great site Steve and thank you for the insightful post. Simply put, triads are the foundation of all other chords built in the tertiary system of chord structure. There are other approaches such as quartel structures, in other words chords built on 4ths. The answer is it takes a lot of time and work to learn just the basic chord types—major, minor, major seven, minor seven and dominant seven—all over the fretboard in every inversion and key.

The good news is that the layout of the guitar fretboard is such that specific chord shapes recur in different areas and on different string groups, so applying oneself to the study of a few of these chord types will ultimately get you a long way toward understanding and visualizing all of the other chord types that there are.

The way to begin this study is to start with major triads. As its name implies, a triad is a three-note entity, generally comprised of a root note, third and fifth. A major triad is built from the root, major third and fifth. First Looks. Review Demos. DIY Projects. Gear Galleries. Factory Tours. Forgotten Heroes. Studio Legends.

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