Corey I must say you not only a great guitar player and teacher a super human being for helping so many of us become a better player. Thanks for your contributions to the music community 😊
Best explanation on triads yet. Love how you tell us the note names not just the fret numbers. 70 thousand subscribers is way too few for the time and knowledge you share with us ,the least we could all do is share Corey's love of guitar with others.
I agree. If a person is discussing triads, Knowing the names of the notes is crucial . Or else you are really not understanding it, or learning anything. When it comes to understanding music theory, fret numbers mean nothing
THIS LESSON!... WOW, I've been playing since the 70s and yet this is concept is a door opener for improvisation that has never been presented so clearly. THANK YOU Corey!
I must say this! Since I have been watching guitar tutorial on TH-cam, today I found a true teacher, whom God has bestowed upon with the teaching Spirit. I am humbled by your teaching skills.
I've been playing 31 years and I studied at one of the most prestigious music colleges in the UK for 6 years and I've never heard that explained so well, or explained like that. I'm going to go play with this concept 💗👍
This is one of the two ways of explaining this that works well and you’ve done a great job, in the jazz we they’re called extensions basically keep going up in thirds along the scale. If you follow the triad approach a bit further than he did here you’ll end up having a melodic minor sound with the minor chords
Seriously I feel like this is the missing link that I've been unable to grasp on my own in terms of learning to apply extensions in my impro, I'm completely mind blown here
Hey, Man, I'm one of Corey's online students and started playing, seriously, at the age of 64 and in about two years into his lessons I'm ahead of many of my younger and more experienced guitar player friends and they are now coming asking me questions (didn't expect that), so if you are not a monthly subscriber consider it it is a steal for what all he has to offer and his monthly online discussions is a blast and informative.
Corey pulls the curtain back on how triads work mightily in your favor. Suddenly, Larry Carlton seems human. LOVE when Corey says “…takes awhile.” Puts him in the woodshed with us.
Yo Corey, I loved this lesson, it's one of your best lessons ever! What I took from this actually is not so much the "stacking" (major/minor or opposite), not even the chord extensions (7, 9, 11 ..), but I took how other chords relate to these extensions, how C brings in the flat 7, how Em brings in the 9, etc... This is really fantastic. I'll much appreciate you creating even more lessons to develop this idea further. Thanks much for this. One of the best lessons I've watched !
Mega thanks to you sir. I've been playing 35 + years and this lesson truly opened up my soloing .I noblonger think in positions and am finally able to coast up and down the fretboard. That was the best lesson I've had in 35 yrs. 😊
Hey Cory, I wanted to let you know the following: When my wife heard the intro licks (the first 30 seconds), she walked in and said Wow, I have never heard a PRS sound like this. I learned the first 30 second because it is so cool. I was determined to learn those beautiful notes..... ha ha it took me a week to get the muscle memory down. I got most of it and posted my own lesson on your first 30 seconds of your tutorial. Those arpeggios are so melodic.... Congrats!!
Corey thanks for being a great guitarist but specially presenting guitar musical ideas and techniques in easy and practical ways that can be utilized immediately 👍👍👍🙂🙂
This is just such an extraordinary lesson. It teaches how it all works and fits together and MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! I don’t have vocabulary to express how great this is. Corey, thank you from the heart of my bottom! You’re truly a phenomenal player AND instructor. This is the stuff that makes one want to practice. So grateful.
As a pro photographer- and a "shit I wish I'd done guitar and song writing instead"- I can tell you that pedal is gonna take your job. This is a great Lesson! Thanks!
Corey, you're an amazing teacher. This video has opened my ear and my eyes to this playing concept better than anything I've ever read or watched before. I feel like I truly leveled up after watching this and absorbing the lesson. Thank you so much for your generosity. I'm used to paying for lessons that aren't even half as good as what you presented here!
This is a VERY high quality lesson. This is one of the best TH-cam guitar lessons I’ve come across, and I’m normally studying Beato and Tomo. As far as I’m concerned you’re their contemporary. You’ll be one of my go-to’s from this point on. Thank you so much, I’m going to try and incorporate this into my playing as quickly as possible.
Brother... the theory has been taught so many times before, but your approach and explanation around the theory is perfect. It's friendly and perfect. You're a great teacher and excellent to listen to.
Bro thank you so much. I’ve had the same problem. I know my triads well but didn’t really understand how to make music with them. This really helped out.
I just started working on this a couple of weeks ago. I seen the utility of this kind of sound within an hour of working on it. It sounds so nice. Awesome lesson as always sir.
New to this channel, and my experience as a teacher (not a guitar player lol), you do a great job explaining complex ideas in a simple way. Very well done! Subscribed.
Great lesson Corey - opened a new door for me - kindly supplying the backing track meant I could immediately start working on the material - THANK YOU ! - you are the BEST
This is one aspect I have been stuck on is trying to get something musical out of these and with this lesson I now have a starting point that will only grow. Thank you very much for taking the time to do this.... very, very cool.
Thank you Corey. First time I watched your videos. I know all of this because of Jazz studies, but the way you explain things are just very helpful, especially for those who want to know how to play. These days I work mostly as a composer and songwriter and apply a lot of this and other theory in the writing. Great advice and video man.
A mind-blowing lesson; thank you! But you've "spoiled" me: I've learned not to expect less, and you never disappoint. This goes well with your arpeggio course, which I'm thoroughly enjoying and would unequivocally recommend to anyone wanting to advance beyond the usual pentatonic noodling. Forza WCG !
Wow, great lesson, thank you so much Corey. I had been groping around in the dark trying to find that sound. You just turned on the lights. All the best, Mark.
Best teacher you will ever run across. He did a Texas blues instructional series years ago, ( highly recommended ) I can play very legit SRV style because of Corey.
Hey Corey, this is so helpful! And just what you described in your Instagram Q&A a few weeks ago. I'd asked what you were currently working on in your guitar practice. You said it was this: alternating minor and major triads to create Larry Carlton-esque 'super arpeggios'. Thank you so much for devoting a TH-cam video to exactly that! I'll be working on it now over your backing track. Thanks again!
Man O Man did you ever open the window to let some fresh Air IN!! I've been playing for a very long time,then you plateau and figure "Fine, I'll satisfy myself with my limitations" still doing OK then I stumble upon this channel and there's My next Level. New sub here! Thanks alot.
You have a new subscriber. Funny enough while practicing triads I discovered recently when I move one note of a triad a step up in the scale I land on another triad, being 2 steps lower (C to A to F to D to B …) and you can travel all the way down the neck this way cycling through the scale. Way more musical and practical. This video perfectly taps into this.
I like to think of it as playing the Maj arp off of the minor third, Minor arp off the perfecf 5th, Major arp off the flat 7. Thinking about it around a root instead of stacking thirds is easier for me
This makes so much sense, its actually incredible how simple it is while simultaneously adding so much complexity, i feel like im starting to get what Larry Carlton means when he says he basically only thinks about triads when doing solos
Like it makes it so easy to hear extensions for the chords because it's building on triads I already know instead of bonkers 7-tone arpeggios? Jesus my mind is melting here, I can't believe I can't touch my guitar before Saturday 😂 typical that I'm seeing this video while on vacation
Hey, Corey, Amos here. I started thinking about this after going back to the Blues 2 and looking into the diminished chords and scales. Right on time. Loving it.
This is the second lesson ever on triads that I've ever found useful. The first was the one you did about a year back where you were playing a funk blues rhythm with a C7 chord and throwing in a Gm and an Am triad to get these cool extensions. I agree with you, there's all these lessons, many by some big-name guitar masters, where they go on and on about how triads are everything, and then they demonstrate improvising with them by playing all these corny "Mary Had a Little Lamb" melodies. I mean, I get it that they're teaching you to crawl before you walk, but without explanations, like you give, that show you how you can take these things and make real music with them, I've never been particularly motivated to spend hours and hours practicing these things that seem like the musical equivalent of watching paint dry. Thanks for showing a bit of why doing so will ultimately pay off.
Welp, now there’s a new “best triads lesson,” and I just watched it. Can’t wait for more on this in Working Class Guitar. Thanks, Corey. This is why I love being a WCG MVP.
started using this right away, f'n awesome. Corey never fails to give us useful tools to improve our playing, he's the best. check out the by yourself blues course too, tons of useful stuff you can incorporate right away. thank you Corey!!!
So stoked to find this vid. I'm a bass player seeking to understand theory and fret board for the first time. This guitar video has opened my eyes immensely so thank you!
Another way of looking at this was introduced to me By Ian Scott who got it off Frank Gambale, who probably got it off someone totally great like Chick Corea. Learning about this opened the diatonic floodgates for me. Play the triads off the chord tones. What does that mean? Begin with the harmonised scale. For example, in C major the chords are: C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bm7b5, C. You have to learn this series of chords and relate it to songs that use it eg You’re so Vain, Don’t Look Back in Anger: these songs use those chords. So, it’s jam night and you’re blues begins with Am7. The Am7 chord has the notes: A, C. E and G (notice the logic : thirds- you skip a letter eg A skip B then C etc.) Go back to your harmonised scale and you find you can play: Am, C, Em and G. Minor triad, major triad, minor triad, major triad… You’ve survived and you’re still in the jam and the band moves to Dm7, which has the notes D, F, A and C. Look at your list in the harmonised scale and you find you can play Dm, F, Am and C. Minor triad, major triad, minor triad, major triad. The band decides to play an F in your Am blues jam, just to throw you off. So you can play the triads: F, Am, C, Em… Play the triads off the chord tones. The band looks at you and they think you’ve had some guitar lessons. Or listened to Frank Gambale. Eric Clapton doesn’t know this shit and sells millions of records…
Thanks Corey. I was getting bored playing those JJ Cale songs that the audience loves In London. This opens a new world of sound. I think JJ would approve of this.
I remember doing this instinctively years ago. I thought of it as playing the inversions of the Am7 chord by alternately starting on the one, three, five and seven. It's a good way to begin to understand modal playing. Arpeggiate the one, three, five and seven and you're wailing in the Dorian mode. That's when shit gets interesting!
Corey you’ve become my favourite TH-cam guitar teacher as you explain things in a clear and concise way whilst keeping it very inspiring. Many thanks from the UK brother! 🙏
Great lesson. I watched the Larry Carlton video where he explained the super aroeggio when it came out in VHS tape! God I'm old. Anyway i was confused on moving through 5ths instead of using the third. Thanks for making this concept so much clearer! Plus I'll second Corey's. recommendation on the Larry Carlton video. It is a little dated production wise but Mr Carlton unloaded a wealth of knowledge in those lessons. Thanks again!
So I discovered thru the years that I can mix major minor ( Am - C) but this lesson shoved me on off the cliff. Thanks so much for the stitches... Subscribed..
Wow! I’m an old dog and this is a new trick! Knowing majors and relative minors will be import. Never thought of packaging it this way. THANK YOU! Off to the basement I go to play!
Not sure how I stumbled across your channel but so glad I did! Your teaching style is excellent for dimwits like myself and this triad lesson has really opened a new world for me. Thank you!
As a Teacher, it really helps a student to play triads differently on how they used to play triads. It also allow you to leave the blues comfort zone. You free others from pentatonic jail.
Corey, This is so brilliant. I love this. I been studying triads a lot. I knew for myself learning triads would be my next step. I’ve been playing shapes up and down the fretboard but this now gives me a way to incorporate them! Thank you! I love this video!
Been buying Corey’s true fire courses for years. He is the man. Great player and educator. I know he has listed lots of gear below, but apart from that drive pedal, can anyone comment on how he gets such a beautiful tone for this video.… Corey, are you out there?… What is the reverb setting? Et cetera et cetera
Two thumbs up to ya Corey. You have laid out all the great notes i would ever want to play. They create a sound of soo much depth. I`m a novice lead player so i have quite a bit of work ahead. Cheers
Those videos came out even earlier. I recall watching that Larry Carlton Hotlicks video over and over in 86 or 87. I couldn’t get enough of those concepts and they still sound fresh to me.
Great instructional video, my band jams on the. song "Hit The Road Jack". This idea works well with that song. Trying to use this idea to come up with some sequences to play..........Thanks
I've been working on learning triads for the past few months, but like others, didn't know how to incorporate them. Going to spend some time on this concept. Thanks!
This is a REALLY good lesson and explanation. Thanks Corey. I’m 15 minutes into learning this and now finding great lines all over the neck. Youda MAN !! 👍👏🫡🍻
I have that LC instruction video with the Valley Arts guitar on the cover. I latched onto those triads years ago from that video. I still use them today. Thank you for your video which gave me some fresh ideas to try out!
Corey I must say you not only a great guitar player and teacher a super human being for helping so many of us become a better player. Thanks for your contributions to the music community 😊
My pleasure!
Totally agree
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Yeah... super helpful..Thx so much👍
100% 😊
"Look, another happy triad friend" Awesome lesson! As a player entering the realm of triads this is the perfect stepping stone.
Congratulations to Matt F from San Mateo, CA! Matt won the PRS SE DGT! th-cam.com/users/shortslDIHmw4jVS4
Best explanation on triads yet. Love how you tell us the note names not just the fret numbers. 70 thousand subscribers is way too few for the time and knowledge you share with us ,the least we could all do is share Corey's love of guitar with others.
Glad you think so!
Agreed!
I agree.
If a person is discussing triads,
Knowing the names of the notes is crucial . Or else you are really not understanding it, or learning anything. When it comes to understanding music theory,
fret numbers mean nothing
THIS LESSON!... WOW, I've been playing since the 70s and yet this is concept is a door opener for improvisation that has never been presented so clearly. THANK YOU Corey!
I must say this! Since I have been watching guitar tutorial on TH-cam, today I found a true teacher, whom God has bestowed upon with the teaching Spirit. I am humbled by your teaching skills.
I've been playing 31 years and I studied at one of the most prestigious music colleges in the UK for 6 years and I've never heard that explained so well, or explained like that. I'm going to go play with this concept 💗👍
Corey your the first person that's made that Larry Carlton approach easy to follow, thanks man I'm indebted to you. Cheers
This is the best, functional approach to triads I've seen yet. Super digestible and immediately incorporate-able into my playing. Thanks!
Glad you think so. That was the plan!
He's got a great way of getting to the point with most concepts
This is one of the two ways of explaining this that works well and you’ve done a great job, in the jazz we they’re called extensions basically keep going up in thirds along the scale. If you follow the triad approach a bit further than he did here you’ll end up having a melodic minor sound with the minor chords
Seriously I feel like this is the missing link that I've been unable to grasp on my own in terms of learning to apply extensions in my impro, I'm completely mind blown here
Dude I must say, you have the best ready-to-apply lessons ever. Thank you for what you do and massive fan here from the Philippines!
Hey thx! That’s the plan!
Hey, Man, I'm one of Corey's online students and started playing, seriously, at the age of 64 and in about two years into his lessons I'm ahead of many of my younger and more experienced guitar player friends and they are now coming asking me questions (didn't expect that), so if you are not a monthly subscriber consider it it is a steal for what all he has to offer and his monthly online discussions is a blast and informative.
That was great… really inspires me to practice to expand my phrasing chops. Thank you for all these great lessons, I get a lot from them 👍
Corey pulls the curtain back on how triads work mightily in your favor. Suddenly, Larry Carlton seems human. LOVE when Corey says “…takes awhile.” Puts him in the woodshed with us.
His courses are great also. I am getting so much from them. Working class guitar.
I'm completely stunned how good this lesson is...! Exactly what I needed. 🙏 Best wishes from Germany
I really enjoyed this lesson. I like the sound you achieve like a jazzy blues. I would like more lessons on this concept using the Triads. Thank you.
More to come!
Yo Corey, I loved this lesson, it's one of your best lessons ever! What I took from this actually is not so much the "stacking" (major/minor or opposite), not even the chord extensions (7, 9, 11 ..), but I took how other chords relate to these extensions, how C brings in the flat 7, how Em brings in the 9, etc... This is really fantastic. I'll much appreciate you creating even more lessons to develop this idea further. Thanks much for this. One of the best lessons I've watched !
Great presentation of a technique used by one of the greats! You're an awesome guitar player and teacher. Thanks Cory.
Once again, Thank you. Things like this make living in this world a better place. You rule Corey.
Mega thanks to you sir. I've been playing 35 + years and this lesson truly opened up my soloing .I noblonger think in positions and am finally able to coast up and down the fretboard. That was the best lesson I've had in 35 yrs. 😊
Hey Cory, I wanted to let you know the following: When my wife heard the intro licks (the first 30 seconds), she walked in and said Wow, I have never heard a PRS sound like this. I learned the first 30 second because it is so cool. I was determined to learn those beautiful notes..... ha ha it took me a week to get the muscle memory down. I got most of it and posted my own lesson on your first 30 seconds of your tutorial. Those arpeggios are so melodic.... Congrats!!
Corey thanks for being a great guitarist but specially presenting guitar musical ideas and techniques in easy and practical ways that can be utilized immediately 👍👍👍🙂🙂
Just like a magician showing his tricks...Great great lesson. Thanks Corey !
This is just such an extraordinary lesson. It teaches how it all works and fits together and MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!
I don’t have vocabulary to express how great this is.
Corey, thank you from the heart of my bottom!
You’re truly a phenomenal player AND instructor.
This is the stuff that makes one want to practice.
So grateful.
As a pro photographer- and a "shit I wish I'd done guitar and song writing instead"- I can tell you that pedal is gonna take your job. This is a great Lesson! Thanks!
Corey, you're an amazing teacher. This video has opened my ear and my eyes to this playing concept better than anything I've ever read or watched before. I feel like I truly leveled up after watching this and absorbing the lesson. Thank you so much for your generosity. I'm used to paying for lessons that aren't even half as good as what you presented here!
This is a VERY high quality lesson. This is one of the best TH-cam guitar lessons I’ve come across, and I’m normally studying Beato and Tomo. As far as I’m concerned you’re their contemporary. You’ll be one of my go-to’s from this point on. Thank you so much, I’m going to try and incorporate this into my playing as quickly as possible.
Brother... the theory has been taught so many times before, but your approach and explanation around the theory is perfect. It's friendly and perfect. You're a great teacher and excellent to listen to.
Glad it was helpful!
What a fantastically musical lesson this is, thank you Corey! 🏆
Bro thank you so much. I’ve had the same problem. I know my triads well but didn’t really understand how to make music with them. This really helped out.
I often watch your videos and think: gosh, this is so simple! (Though it’s not..) Amazing how easy you make things look. Thanks!
I just started working on this a couple of weeks ago. I seen the utility of this kind of sound within an hour of working on it. It sounds so nice. Awesome lesson as always sir.
Just the best jazz/blues teacher on the internet!! Fantastic approaches
Excellent lesson. I teach and I’m a huge Larry Carlton fan, so this was gold for me. Thank you for taking the time to do it.
My pleasure!
New to this channel, and my experience as a teacher (not a guitar player lol), you do a great job explaining complex ideas in a simple way. Very well done! Subscribed.
Thanks so much Corey. No matter the theory you are sharing in your videos your chops and phrases in your demos are out of this world. So inspiring.
Oh man, I’ve been playing nothing but arpeggios for about 2 years, and you’ve just blown my mind... thank you
Best lesson I've seen in a while. I tried it yesterday and my wife commented how good it sounded. Thank you!
Eye-opening! Best triad lesson in YT yet! Thanks!
Great lesson Corey - opened a new door for me - kindly supplying the backing track meant I could immediately start working on the material - THANK YOU ! - you are the BEST
This is one aspect I have been stuck on is trying to get something musical out of these and with this lesson I now have a starting point that will only grow. Thank you very much for taking the time to do this.... very, very cool.
Best Triad soling video I've come across, EVER.... Thank you, Professor! You really are a great teacher.
Very inspiring lesson Corey. I'm off to have a load of fun with this. Thank you
Great to hear!
Thank you Corey. First time I watched your videos. I know all of this because of Jazz studies, but the way you explain things are just very helpful, especially for those who want to know how to play. These days I work mostly as a composer and songwriter and apply a lot of this and other theory in the writing. Great advice and video man.
Whoa! Corey, even by your high standard, this was an awesome lesson.
A mind-blowing lesson; thank you! But you've "spoiled" me: I've learned not to expect less, and you never disappoint. This goes well with your arpeggio course, which I'm thoroughly enjoying and would unequivocally recommend to anyone wanting to advance beyond the usual pentatonic noodling. Forza WCG !
Wow, great lesson, thank you so much Corey. I had been groping around in the dark trying to find that sound. You just turned on the lights. All the best, Mark.
Astonishing! This lesson explained so much to me and took my playing a giant step forward. Thank you so much, Corey.🙏
very easy to follow, and when it makes sense, it's like a light bulb coming on in your head while you're playing...excellent video...thanks!
Best teacher you will ever run across. He did a Texas blues instructional series years ago, ( highly recommended ) I can play very legit SRV style because of Corey.
Hey Corey, this is so helpful! And just what you described in your Instagram Q&A a few weeks ago. I'd asked what you were currently working on in your guitar practice. You said it was this: alternating minor and major triads to create Larry Carlton-esque 'super arpeggios'. Thank you so much for devoting a TH-cam video to exactly that! I'll be working on it now over your backing track. Thanks again!
I have listened to Larry Carlton teaching triads and was left behind. I got your lesson immediately. Thanks!
Man O Man did you ever open the window to let some fresh Air IN!! I've been playing for a very long time,then you plateau and figure "Fine, I'll satisfy myself with my limitations" still doing OK then I stumble upon this channel and there's My next Level. New sub here! Thanks alot.
Glad you enjoyed! Thx for the sub!
This is TREMENDOUS, Corey. Amazing stuff!
Love the Tris
You have a new subscriber. Funny enough while practicing triads I discovered recently when I move one note of a triad a step up in the scale I land on another triad, being 2 steps lower (C to A to F to D to B …) and you can travel all the way down the neck this way cycling through the scale. Way more musical and practical. This video perfectly taps into this.
Hey thx! Glad it was helpful!
I woke up to the cacophony of dueling leaf-blowers. Your mellow organ track and magical triad tips just made my morning. Thanks, teach!
I like to think of it as playing the Maj arp off of the minor third, Minor arp off the perfecf 5th, Major arp off the flat 7. Thinking about it around a root instead of stacking thirds is easier for me
Hey Corey !Man im gonna call you now "Mister-Dissecter" .I've never seen this side of triad explained thorougly like you did .Ya the Goat Corey
This makes so much sense, its actually incredible how simple it is while simultaneously adding so much complexity, i feel like im starting to get what Larry Carlton means when he says he basically only thinks about triads when doing solos
Like it makes it so easy to hear extensions for the chords because it's building on triads I already know instead of bonkers 7-tone arpeggios? Jesus my mind is melting here, I can't believe I can't touch my guitar before Saturday 😂 typical that I'm seeing this video while on vacation
Hey, Corey, Amos here. I started thinking about this after going back to the Blues 2 and looking into the diminished chords and scales. Right on time. Loving it.
Thanks, Amos!
This is the second lesson ever on triads that I've ever found useful. The first was the one you did about a year back where you were playing a funk blues rhythm with a C7 chord and throwing in a Gm and an Am triad to get these cool extensions. I agree with you, there's all these lessons, many by some big-name guitar masters, where they go on and on about how triads are everything, and then they demonstrate improvising with them by playing all these corny "Mary Had a Little Lamb" melodies. I mean, I get it that they're teaching you to crawl before you walk, but without explanations, like you give, that show you how you can take these things and make real music with them, I've never been particularly motivated to spend hours and hours practicing these things that seem like the musical equivalent of watching paint dry. Thanks for showing a bit of why doing so will ultimately pay off.
Thanks for that and you nailed my motivation for making this lesson
Welp, now there’s a new “best triads lesson,” and I just watched it. Can’t wait for more on this in Working Class Guitar. Thanks, Corey. This is why I love being a WCG MVP.
Haha! Thanks my friend!
This one was super useful. You can be musical, technical, and thematic. Bravo, quaglio.
started using this right away, f'n awesome. Corey never fails to give us useful tools to improve our playing, he's the best. check out the by yourself blues course too, tons of useful stuff you can incorporate right away. thank you Corey!!!
So stoked to find this vid. I'm a bass player seeking to understand theory and fret board for the first time. This guitar video has opened my eyes immensely so thank you!
No one opens their Git vid's with such style - or blaze - as you do. I'm subscribed.
Hey thx!
Another way of looking at this was introduced to me By Ian Scott who got it off Frank Gambale, who probably got it off someone totally great like Chick Corea. Learning about this opened the diatonic floodgates for me. Play the triads off the chord tones. What does that mean? Begin with the harmonised scale. For example, in C major the chords are: C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bm7b5, C. You have to learn this series of chords and relate it to songs that use it eg You’re so Vain, Don’t Look Back in Anger: these songs use those chords. So, it’s jam night and you’re blues begins with Am7. The Am7 chord has the notes: A, C. E and G (notice the logic : thirds- you skip a letter eg A skip B then C etc.) Go back to your harmonised scale and you find you can play: Am, C, Em and G. Minor triad, major triad, minor triad, major triad… You’ve survived and you’re still in the jam and the band moves to Dm7, which has the notes D, F, A and C. Look at your list in the harmonised scale and you find you can play Dm, F, Am and C. Minor triad, major triad, minor triad, major triad. The band decides to play an F in your Am blues jam, just to throw you off. So you can play the triads: F, Am, C, Em… Play the triads off the chord tones. The band looks at you and they think you’ve had some guitar lessons. Or listened to Frank Gambale. Eric Clapton doesn’t know this shit and sells millions of records…
Thanks Corey. I was getting bored playing those JJ Cale songs that the audience loves In London. This opens a new world of sound. I think JJ would approve of this.
I remember doing this instinctively years ago. I thought of it as playing the inversions of the Am7 chord by alternately starting on the one, three, five and seven. It's a good way to begin to understand modal playing. Arpeggiate the one, three, five and seven and you're wailing in the Dorian mode. That's when shit gets interesting!
Corey you’ve become my favourite TH-cam guitar teacher as you explain things in a clear and concise way whilst keeping it very inspiring. Many thanks from the UK brother! 🙏
Wow thanks!
Great lesson. I watched the Larry Carlton video where he explained the super aroeggio when it came out in VHS tape! God I'm old. Anyway i was confused on moving through 5ths instead of using the third. Thanks for making this concept so much clearer! Plus I'll second Corey's. recommendation on the Larry Carlton video. It is a little dated production wise but Mr Carlton unloaded a wealth of knowledge in those lessons. Thanks again!
So I discovered thru the years that I can mix major minor ( Am - C) but this lesson shoved me on off the cliff. Thanks so much for the stitches... Subscribed..
Wow! I’m an old dog and this is a new trick! Knowing majors and relative minors will be import. Never thought of packaging it this way. THANK YOU! Off to the basement I go to play!
We usually see this as a Jazz practice routine but don't know how to apply it. Thanks to this video 😀
Not sure how I stumbled across your channel but so glad I did! Your teaching style is excellent for dimwits like myself and this triad lesson has really opened a new world for me. Thank you!
Very nice instructional and musical Video on the triads being part of 7th chords with their options (9, 11, 13)
Cool, very appealing, thank u!
You had me at "I nicked this from Larry Carlton!"... Great concept, well explained, subscribed!
Thank you for the great lesson, I have those same Larry Carlton DVDs, nice to get a refreshing lesson ..👍🎸
The proverbial Light Bulb just turned on. Thanks for leading us out of the darkness!
As a Teacher, it really helps a student to play triads differently on how they used to play triads.
It also allow you to leave the blues comfort zone.
You free others from pentatonic jail.
Corey,
This is so brilliant. I love this. I been studying triads a lot. I knew for myself learning triads would be my next step. I’ve been playing shapes up and down the fretboard but this now gives me a way to incorporate them! Thank you! I love this video!
It's an eye opener about triads for late beginners like me!! Thank you for sharing your precious knowledge.. Good day ✨
Been buying Corey’s true fire courses for years. He is the man. Great player and educator. I know he has listed lots of gear below, but apart from that drive pedal, can anyone comment on how he gets such a beautiful tone for this video.… Corey, are you out there?… What is the reverb setting? Et cetera et cetera
Super smooth touch with finesse.
Very nice playing.
Great lessons, great playing, and incredible feel. Thanks Corey!
Great lesson and great playing! This was such an elegant explanation to an approach I’ve been wondering about for years.
This is such an incredibly useful lesson Corey! Thanks!
this was a brilliant approach and lesson - love it- gonna dust off the looper to lay down backing. be🔔👍right here!
Two thumbs up to ya Corey. You have laid out all the great notes i would ever want to play. They create a sound of soo much depth. I`m a novice lead player so i have quite a bit of work ahead. Cheers
Best triad lesson for breaking out of the box thank you!!!!
Those videos came out even earlier. I recall watching that Larry Carlton Hotlicks video over and over in 86 or 87. I couldn’t get enough of those concepts and they still sound fresh to me.
Well that's what Wikipedia said and that must be right!
Great instructional video, my band jams on the. song "Hit The Road Jack". This idea works well with that song. Trying to use this idea to come up with some sequences to play..........Thanks
Thank you for sharing. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Amazing how fast you bring me to a next level! What a master of a teacher & not to forget player ❤
I've been working on learning triads for the past few months, but like others, didn't know how to incorporate them. Going to spend some time on this concept. Thanks!
Excellent!
This is a REALLY good lesson and explanation.
Thanks Corey. I’m 15 minutes into learning this and now finding great lines all over the neck. Youda MAN !! 👍👏🫡🍻
I was just introduced to your channel and subscribed for more. You conveyed a useful method in a way that makes sense and will stick. Thanks!!
This is a phenomenal lesson. Love the triad to pentatonic idea. A++ really helpful for breaking out of the pentatonic or “chord tone” boxes
Great lesson as always. You have such good style and feel. Love the Bluebird Cafe shirt. I have friends that play there when they get to Nashville.
Really useful and classy lesson, with some great playing.
I have that LC instruction video with the Valley Arts guitar on the cover. I latched onto those triads years ago from that video. I still use them today. Thank you for your video which gave me some fresh ideas to try out!