Back with major and minor G triads in a number of different positions here.
So due to the nature of how the notes are laid out on the guitar we've got to move around the neck a little differently.
We can't just start low and high.
Here they are.
On strings three, two and one here are your G major and G minor triad shapes.
First one.
This is going to be twelfth fret on your three and your two strings and then tenth fret on your first string.
Since this is just a regular triad our third is in the middle, one, three, five and we're going to drop that just a half step and we have our minor form.
Major. Minor.
Next we have this position.
Now this one is our second inversion.
Not our first inversion but our second inversion.
It's got the fifth in the base and then it's got the root and then it's got the third on the top.
It looks suspiciously like a D chord.
Kind of cool.
Here's your major version second inversion and since our third is on the top we're simply going to lower that a distance of one fret like we've been
doing and change my fingering around so I'm going to move my second finger up to the third string
and then my first finger down to the first string.
So fingering on this one here is first finger G string seventh fret, third finger eighth fret second string and second finger seventh fret first string.
Fingering for the minor triad version.
String three you're going to be using your second finger.
String two your third finger.
String one your first finger.
This looks suspiciously like a D minor just played up the neck.
Going to our first inversion version we've got the third in the base.
Then we've go the root. Third, fifth, root.
Now the fingering here is second finger fourth fret, first finger just bar across the B and the E strings.
To make this minor, again, because your third is the base note you're going to lower that a half step and you've got your first inversion G minor triad.
Those are the positions we're going to be working through.
I strongly recommend you practice them just like we did where you're moving from,
you're moving them around you're practicing the major and the minor forms.
Now mix it up a little bit get really comfortable with playing these and then we'll be practicing to a track to help you apply some of these.
This track is kind of cool it's going to give you some musical ideas of how to apply these triads.
Hopefully in your own writing arranging and figuring out songs
then you'll be able to spot some of these triads a be able to apply them to a greater level.
Before we get into that though I want to go over a little bit of a technique I've been using to play these triads and play all the notes at the same time.
It's not a requirement that you do this and you won't really be doing it with the track but it sounds cool and it's a cool technique to learn.
I'm using a technique with my right hand called hybrid picking
and what that means is I'm using a pick and I'm using my fingers to get all the strings to sound exactly at the same time.
So if I'm playing my basic G triad here I've got my pick on my fourth string and I've got my second finger my middle finger on G string or third string.
Lastly I've got my ring finger on my B string.
So work on doing that a little bit.
The other thing about this is your squeezing kind of together where you are picking up with your fingers using the pad of your fingers
and you are picking down with your pick.
Just a little side note and we'll get on to picking techniques later but that's how I'm generating that sound
where everything is played at the same time.
In the next section we're going to be breaking down the track and then we will look at playing along with the track.