What's up everyone.
Chris from JamPlay.com with another beginner lesson for you.
Today we are going to be talking about triads.
What is a triad you ask.
We've covered major scales a little bit and we've covered intervals.
So the explanation for triads ought to make sense.
A triad is simply three notes. Hence tri.
With the one of the scale or a chord, the three and five all played in sequence so melodically or harmonically all together.
What we are doing is we're defining a root which in this case in this particular triad is the base note and then we're taking interval the third
and putting that above the root and an interval of the fifth and also placing that above the root.
That's a basic triad.
Today we're going to be covering two forms of triads and a number of different inversions.
So a form of a triad is where the notes are altered in some way.
In this case we're going to be covering major triads which is root, regular third, fifth
and a minor triad which is root, lowered third, lowered one fret and a fifth.
So major is root, three, five or one, three, five.
Minor is root, flat three, five or one, flat three, five.
Now an inversion is where you are going to be rearranging the notes.
So here we are playing the notes in order: one, three, five.
Every first inversion triad is instead of having your root as your base note you're going to have your third as a base note
so your first inversion triad is going to be three, then you're going to go to your fifth and then your root.
So your first inversion triad: third in the base, third, fifth, root.
Then your second inversion triad is going to be fifth as the base note then your root in the middle and then your third on the top.
So these all have unique sounds to them but they are all the same notes.
They are just used in different contexts and you've probably heard these things all the time.
Triads are very, very powerful when used correctly.
Or even when used incorrectly they can be powerful.
So let's go over these positions that I am playing really quick.
Today we're going to be learning our triad positions based off of strings four, three and two and three, two and one.
So we're going to be learning two different string sets of triad positions
and there also is a backing track that we are going to be working over in the lesson today to start applying some of these things.
So to teach these shapes we are going to be working out of the key of G and this first one here is going to be third finger fifth fret, then second
finger fourth fret and first finger third fret and that's going to be on strings four, three and two.
That's a major triad and it's played with these three fingers.
To simply make this triad minor remember this is just a regular no inversion or anything just a regular position
so we're going to be lowering this middle note which is the third a half step and that gives us our minor triad.
Major. Minor.
The next position we're going to look at is the first inversion major, third in the base.
So that would be ninth fret fourth string, seventh fret third string, eighth fret B string or second string.
Since this is a first inversion triad the third is the base note.
We're going to lower that one fret or a distance of a half step and I'm going to change my fingering around to make it easier to play.
There is my minor triad in this position.
So. Major. Minor.
Next we're going to deal with our second inversion G major triad and this can be played with your first finger
on the twelfth fret across your fourth your third and your second strings.
Now because this is a second inversion triad our third is on the top and our fifth is in the base.
So we're going to lower the third right here a distance of a half step, one fret and we're going to get this.
Let me blow through these really quick and you can hear the differences and similarities between the two.
So we've got G major. G minor.
G major first inversion. G minor first inversion.
G major second inversion. G minor second inversion.
Refer to the supplemental content and that will help you get these things memorized for jamming to the track.
Let's move on to our second sets of triads in G major.
These are going to be on strings three, two and one.
Let's take a quick breather and we'll cover those in the next section.