Jesus, I am so old and have been playing for a long time, but every time I watch one of your instructional videos I learn something new that is instantly playable. I would say that you should go back and be a professor again, but then again, you already did! And now you have a much bigger classroom. Hell yeah I bought the Beato Book, and I didn't even wait for a live stream to get a discount! I'm a fan.
Agreed as well. 34 years playing experience but I've been diving into as much theory as I can. As much as I felt I knew-some things weren't a surprise-, there were a ton of things I didn't know. Love discovering what I don't know. And much mahalos to Mr. Beato.
Spread Triads, and triads in general, are some of the most fundamental at the heart of melodies and soloing! Quite beautiful sounding, and you can expand so much on them!
Mega! You have transformed my thought process when I watch lessons over the last 3 years. I understand everything you say now where I just used to wish I could. I do a lot less noodling and have a logical and musical approach when I pick up guitar or sit at the keyboard. Thank you. I have a new purpose and a friend in music now.
Great video Rick! Just a small mis-speak around 3:45ish when introducing the diminished triad you first say "one flat three five" but correct the rest of the time during the examples. just wanted to mention for anyone that may get confused learning this stuff for the first time! Thanks for all the great videos Rick!
Thanks for pointing this out. I usually go over his lectures at least twice so I can just listen without questioning and not take notes the first time. I just finished my pass thru.
Thanks for publishing this very important lesson, Rick! One of the great little "secrets" in the ambient/new age genre to create widest soundscapes is literally "expanding" (spreading) the chords. Glad you are such a huge Pat Metheny fan & proponent - I've been a fan since "New Chautauqua" so we share this 6 string hero, lol. Hope you can get Pat as a guest on the show someday! PS: Eric J is amazing too!
Hi Rick, great lesson as usual! As a way of organizing all the different shapes (3 inversions x 4 types of triads) I like to start from the shape of an augmented triad, as for that one the tonic could be any of the notes, and then lower the 5th, 3rd and 5th again to derive the shapes of the major, minor and diminished triads for the same tonic. Clearly which note is the 3rd and 5th follows from the choice of the tonic. The same approach works for the "closed" triads.
This is something I've put a lot of work into lately. After watching one of Tim Pierce's excellent videos about the same subject, I've started to look for chord-shapes all around the neck, and playing with and around those. I've only dvelved into basic minor and major harmonies for now, bit this has already done wonders familiarizing me with my neck, understanding scales and harmony-knowledge. If only I knew this when I started playing, my solos wouldn't have sucked as much the last 20 years! Great video as usual Rick. Thanks for all the lessons, and take care in these strange times we live in.
Instant classic episode Rick. This is why we keep coming back. You bring freshness to our lives with real examples, theory and practice we can put into place to make us better musicians. Gold. Thank you.
Aloha from Maui, I bought a travel guitar and was searching for a cheap battery powered amp so I could learn to play the electric guitar while in quarantine. I had little knowledge of music and your videos frustrated me and made me mad because I was just beginning and trying to learn the basics of the guitar. Then you did the Led Z video describing the sounds in Ramble On. You took the time to find out from the man who did the work how he did it and destroyed a myth that I had heard for years. I Bought Your Book After That! Thank you for what you do and could you do more beginner videos for your daughters and loyal followers. Mahalo!
Up tonight till 12pm mapping out this lesson. Thanks so much for including tabs. Looking forward to ordering your book and future lessons. Can't thank you enough. Dan Bonner
Dude I know ALL about spread triads, that's so basic I was using them in high school. Except I apparently was flat wrong because this was a total revelation!! I love those sounds you're getting and I can't wait to practice them like that tonight. I already know that is going to open up my playing and writing with a new tool in the toolbox. Thank you as always Rick, you're the man!
Hi rick I will never understand those people who give a thumb down to you what do they not get are they simply just jelous back in the day you would be lucky to own a guitar or keyboard book and yet all this what you and other guys provide to us so glad I stumbled on your channel Dave from uk big fan *****
Nice. I would have never realized they were the same triads if you didn't explain this. I had trou left hearing different inversions of dominant chords when I was less experienced. Thank you.
Thanks Rick. You always post amazing useful content. I’m gonna work in these. Keep it coming. We love it. Who the hell would give this a thumbs down?? Really. Come on Rick is helping all players with his knowledge. Some people are just haters and are jealous. We love u Rick.
Thanks, Rick! You’ve made several videos on Spread Triads and each one has helped deepen my familiarity of the guitar. Julian Lage’s “Etude 1” is a dazzling display of spread triads. I’ve been using 4 measure sections as a warm-up. Not nearly as fast as Julian though 🤯
Amazing analysis!!! And thank you for referencing Eric Johnson and Pat Metheny, two of my top ten favorite artists/bands of all time. And The Beatles are included in that top ten.
Great lesson, and thanks a ton for adding the notation+tab to the video! For BB readers, fretboard diagrams with spread triad fingerings are in the Beato Book on p. 193. -Tom
This is really great thank you Rick! I've started incorporating this into my routine immediately and can't wait to burn it in. Will check in on this thread in a year to report back.
As you were playing these I was like, "Man I've heard these before." Then at 7:37 a lightbulb went off! I've been watching your IG posts for a while so thanks for making this video to explain this technique. I will look for it in your future posts and try to call it out ha
Wow! you youtubers are lucky to have Rick, This reminds me when I studied at Berklee College of Music in 84. At the end of the semester I had to bring all my studies on the airplain, in a big heavy garbage bag. But I had to leave most of it behind, to heavy.
Very nice synthesis of the concept, short but with full coverage , and indeed (one of) the best vids you already did on this topic. Inspired me to use introduce a Bb aug. spread triad arp in a G harmonic minor piece I'm playing . Though I most fancy the Lydian Triad arp. Thanks ! Take care & stay safe.
This is a video I have been crunching on for a while. I never knew what intervals made a few particular chord voicings. So many lightbulb moments... "OOOOOOHHHHH that voicing I use is an augmented chord!". Thanks Rick!
Great video. Getting better open triads has been my quarantine project. Used them a bit for years in my solo jazz fingerstyle playing, but of late I've been working them into flatpicking traditional tunes. Great stuff boss! Thanks. e
Thanks Rick. Identifying and singling out triadic notes within major and minor scales, and then incorporating them into my playing is my next step, I hope it will improve my melodic ability, I feel I've gained a better understanding at least.
YES>>!!!! Pat is from KC.. more specific, Lees Summit, Mo... we love Matheny music!!.. Thanks for including him.. he is one of the greats who is not so well know.. but he should be!..
Thank you for spelling it out like this. You've given me something to workshop on the guitar for the next little while, which is immensely valuable right now. You did the same with essential finger picking patterns (maybe you could return to this again?). Keep up the great work.
Killer lesson. I realize this type of video isn't as "accessible" to a mass audience as "What Makes This Song Great," but thanks for still doing them. We "theory nerds" appreciate it. 👍
This is a very good video, Rick...if I apply this at all in my playing, it is because it is part of a solo that I had to learn for some cover song. I know about various open chord inversions from music theory in college (and we had band and choir teachers in high school in our town in the late 70's that were just over the top good...so we were all very fortunate to sit under the teaching of those people)...but never thought to apply that in arpeggio fashion to guitar improvisation...I knew THAT people like Eric Johnson were doing these cool interval arpeggio things, but never realized the WHAT in theory that they were doing...and just a few minutes of watching this, I was like Ohhh...what they are doing I already know those concepts, just didn't realize what in theory they were applying to achieve that in their playing and improvising...wow man...hey, thanks for sharing this one with us...hope you and yours are well!!
When I first learned about triads ( I said "about" them, not that I've ever "learned" them, lol) the light came on the next time I listened to Eric Johnson. Not knowing anything about his methods, just enjoyed his music, I realized how integral triads were to his playing. I could hear it. I didn't need to see tabs or sheet music (not that I can read either one), I could hear it. May be no big deal to some, but it was a cool "ah ha" moment for me.
Stellar video, Rick! I am very grateful that you took your time to explain it to us with tabs and sheets. I do have one question: Maybe I did not understand it correctly, but shouldn't it say "root position" instead of "2nd inversion" at around 4:08? Could somebody please explain it to me? Thanks in advance.
I think that was just a typo, 2nd inversion usually refers to whenever the 5th is on the bottom, and he does talk about a root position triad with the visual with 2nd inversion
I just have to wonder who 36 people would be that "Don't Like." I mean what a completely useful technique that can break a player out of a plateau and into new avenues of fretboard awareness and harmonic awesomeness. Thanks so much, I will be looking this up in your book.
WOA - I think some people who play guitar (youngish males in particular) have extremely large, extremely fragile egos, and find it painful to be reminded that the one thing they've pinned their illusion of superiority on, guitar playing, is much, much more complex than they initially imagined, and this realization hurts. And they're confronted with it again and again on the internet. For some people, a phrase like "If you can incorporate these... into your playing, it will make your playing so much more interesting" in tandem with Rick's obvious command of his instrument and music theory, translates into "the guitar chops you thought you had are meaningless and trivial". Of course, this is not the author's intent! So instead of seeing this video as a huge clue as to improve their playing (offered for free!), they see it as a reminder of how far they still have to go to have the skills they wish they already had. Hence the dislikes. Just a guess.
Always great videos Rick!! Idea for a series..."What Makes "Musician" sound like "Musician". Maybe tone, preference in chord voicing, modes. etc. Example, What Makes Alex Lifeson Sound Like Alex Lifeson. Then demonstrate tone (maybe chorus pedal, 335 style guitar etc) Chords with open strings, Sus chords, Phrasing. You obviously know how to do this better than me! lol Please consider, Thanks!
Diminished Spread Triads...Holy octopus fingers...lol👍😃 Best instruction video for me to-date. Others before are great, but this one really resonated as I love playing Triads...👍😃🎸🎶🎵🎼🎹🎷🎺
Eric Johnson and Pat Metheny mentioned in the same video....instant like.
Jesus, I am so old and have been playing for a long time, but every time I watch one of your instructional videos I learn something new that is instantly playable. I would say that you should go back and be a professor again, but then again, you already did! And now you have a much bigger classroom. Hell yeah I bought the Beato Book, and I didn't even wait for a live stream to get a discount! I'm a fan.
Same goes for me.
right? ive been playing 15 years and can pick up on alot of this stuff quickly. but still things ive never even thought of. so damn informative!
Agreed as well. 34 years playing experience but I've been diving into as much theory as I can. As much as I felt I knew-some things weren't a surprise-, there were a ton of things I didn't know. Love discovering what I don't know. And much mahalos to Mr. Beato.
Spread Triads, and triads in general, are some of the most fundamental at the heart of melodies and soloing! Quite beautiful sounding, and you can expand so much on them!
I like dyads too.
Monads are where it's at. Nonads are great when you're sleeping. 😴
Mega! You have transformed my thought process when I watch lessons over the last 3 years. I understand everything you say now where I just used to wish I could. I do a lot less noodling and have a logical and musical approach when I pick up guitar or sit at the keyboard. Thank you. I have a new purpose and a friend in music now.
I just love how you're using the orchestra like string sound to highlight each chord
Great video Rick!
Just a small mis-speak around 3:45ish when introducing the diminished triad you first say "one flat three five" but correct the rest of the time during the examples. just wanted to mention for anyone that may get confused learning this stuff for the first time!
Thanks for all the great videos Rick!
I caught that too... I must be learning!
I think he just meant one flat (three and five)
Thanks for pointing this out. I usually go over his lectures at least twice so I can just listen without questioning and not take notes the first time. I just finished my pass thru.
That does it! Rick is cancelling your subscription. 😲😀
Thanks for publishing this very important lesson, Rick! One of the great little "secrets" in the ambient/new age genre to create widest soundscapes is literally "expanding" (spreading) the chords. Glad you are such a huge Pat Metheny fan & proponent - I've been a fan since "New Chautauqua" so we share this 6 string hero, lol. Hope you can get Pat as a guest on the show someday! PS: Eric J is amazing too!
That Lydian spread is quite a monster. Amazing lesson.
Hey, thank you, Rick, for sharing your knowledge. You are one of the best people/teachers I've come across.
Hi Rick, great lesson as usual!
As a way of organizing all the different shapes (3 inversions x 4 types of triads) I like to start from the shape of an augmented triad, as for that one the tonic could be any of the notes, and then lower the 5th, 3rd and 5th again to derive the shapes of the major, minor and diminished triads for the same tonic. Clearly which note is the 3rd and 5th follows from the choice of the tonic. The same approach works for the "closed" triads.
You’re the best at using the darker scales and chords. It’s open so many possibilities for me.
This is something I've put a lot of work into lately. After watching one of Tim Pierce's excellent videos about the same subject, I've started to look for chord-shapes all around the neck, and playing with and around those. I've only dvelved into basic minor and major harmonies for now, bit this has already done wonders familiarizing me with my neck, understanding scales and harmony-knowledge. If only I knew this when I started playing, my solos wouldn't have sucked as much the last 20 years!
Great video as usual Rick. Thanks for all the lessons, and take care in these strange times we live in.
Excellent stuff Rick! I love the lighting in this video too. It looks so slick!
2 minutes in and mind blown already! Going back to the music lessons I never really took...
Instant classic episode Rick. This is why we keep coming back. You bring freshness to our lives with real examples, theory and practice we can put into place to make us better musicians. Gold. Thank you.
The ending solo with the PRS is the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long time! I really need to start working on these! Thank you, Rick!
Aloha from Maui, I bought a travel guitar and was searching for a cheap battery powered amp so I could learn to play the electric guitar while in quarantine. I had little knowledge of music and your videos frustrated me and made me mad because I was just beginning and trying to learn the basics of the guitar. Then you did the Led Z video describing the sounds in Ramble On. You took the time to find out from the man who did the work how he did it and destroyed a myth that I had heard for years. I Bought Your Book After That! Thank you for what you do and could you do more beginner videos for your daughters and loyal followers. Mahalo!
Up tonight till 12pm mapping out this lesson. Thanks so much for including tabs. Looking forward to ordering your book and future lessons. Can't thank you enough. Dan Bonner
Dude I know ALL about spread triads, that's so basic I was using them in high school. Except I apparently was flat wrong because this was a total revelation!! I love those sounds you're getting and I can't wait to practice them like that tonight. I already know that is going to open up my playing and writing with a new tool in the toolbox. Thank you as always Rick, you're the man!
Hi rick I will never understand those people who give a thumb down to you what do they not get are they simply just jelous back in the day you would be lucky to own a guitar or keyboard book and yet all this what you and other guys provide to us so glad I stumbled on your channel Dave from uk big fan *****
I finally bought the Beato Book & pdf bundle. Combined with your videos it’s a great resource. Thanks for all the work you put into it.
Nice. I would have never realized they were the same triads if you didn't explain this. I had trou left hearing different inversions of dominant chords when I was less experienced. Thank you.
Thanks Rick. You always post amazing useful content. I’m gonna work in these. Keep it coming. We love it. Who the hell would give this a thumbs down?? Really. Come on Rick is helping all players with his knowledge. Some people are just haters and are jealous. We love u Rick.
the real gem is the synth accompaniment
One of the best resources on TH-cam, thanks for being awesome
Thanks, Rick! You’ve made several videos on Spread Triads and each one has helped deepen my familiarity of the guitar. Julian Lage’s “Etude 1” is a dazzling display of spread triads. I’ve been using 4 measure sections as a warm-up. Not nearly as fast as Julian though 🤯
Just keep getting better and better Rick! Thanks again.
Thanks for the video, great. You don't need to be musical to really enjoy them and you can't fail to learn. Respect. Be safe to stay well to all.
This guy is a great teacher, right to the point!
Amazing analysis!!! And thank you for referencing Eric Johnson and Pat Metheny, two of my top ten favorite artists/bands of all time. And The Beatles are included in that top ten.
Great video! Very clear description of notes and intervals, helpful graphics, and awesome step by step instructions. Thanks Rick and team!
Great lesson, and thanks a ton for adding the notation+tab to the video! For BB readers, fretboard diagrams with spread triad fingerings are in the Beato Book on p. 193. -Tom
You are in perfect tuning. Beautiful in itself.
This is easily the best music channel on the internet.
This is really great thank you Rick! I've started incorporating this into my routine immediately and can't wait to burn it in. Will check in on this thread in a year to report back.
As you were playing these I was like, "Man I've heard these before." Then at 7:37 a lightbulb went off! I've been watching your IG posts for a while so thanks for making this video to explain this technique. I will look for it in your future posts and try to call it out ha
Man I really love your Videos and that one was one of the best, thanks for that and keep on rocking, cheers from Vienna, Austria
That blue guitar looks and sounds amazing. What a blaster.
One of the best guitar lessons i have ever watched!!! Thank you!
You are incredible at explaining these things Rick...
When I watch your great videos, it reminds me of how much I suck as a musician . One can never stop learning, Thanks
Took me 6 hours to learn them correctly. Thanks Rick you made my day !
Amazing. Short, simple, clear and challenging.
Honestly am really in love with this ,at frist I thought I would do them maybe in order or just a few,but this has been a great idea
Wow! you youtubers are lucky to have Rick, This reminds me when I studied at Berklee College of Music in 84. At the end of the semester I had to bring all my studies on the airplain, in a big heavy garbage bag. But I had to leave most of it behind, to heavy.
I love the m7 and maj7 shapes and use them all the time. Also the sus4 triad. Never knew about the other ones! So awesome.
Thank you Rick! You are a wealth of knowledge and I appreciate all that you give.
You really break it down, Rick. Very comprehendible!
Spread triads, mother's milk of melodic guitar. Thanks for pulling back the curtain Grand Wizard Beato!
As always, great stuff! Thanks for getting into the fingerings.
If this stuff is in the Beato Book, you just sold me. Thanks for another amazing video.
Love you so much man! Thank you for what you do for the world, the music, the culture. You're a role model, thank you
Rick,that wa brilliant, im so impressed how educated and darn good you are!
2 mos later & still working on these, man I suck, but...PLEASE do more of these Music Studies for Block (Rock) Heads.
One of the best lessons on using triads I've come across. Thank you Rick. (And explained so well)
Very nice synthesis of the concept, short but with full coverage , and indeed (one of) the best vids you already did on this topic. Inspired me to use introduce a Bb aug. spread triad arp in a G harmonic minor piece I'm playing . Though I most fancy the Lydian Triad arp. Thanks ! Take care & stay safe.
Your camera lighting is MUCH improved and looks pretty great! Your show is really looking good.
This is a video I have been crunching on for a while. I never knew what intervals made a few particular chord voicings. So many lightbulb moments... "OOOOOOHHHHH that voicing I use is an augmented chord!". Thanks Rick!
Rick always leaves me feeling inspired :)
Great video. Getting better open triads has been my quarantine project. Used them a bit for years in my solo jazz fingerstyle playing, but of late I've been working them into flatpicking traditional tunes. Great stuff boss! Thanks. e
They definitely are great for that! The 3 note voicings really help with playing a melody since they give you an extra finger
Thanks Rick. Identifying and singling out triadic notes within major and minor scales, and then incorporating them into my playing is my next step, I hope it will improve my melodic ability, I feel I've gained a better understanding at least.
Knocking it out of the park as usual prof .. 💫thanks
I really like this short format of covering these. I think it's perfect for this kind of thing. The whiteboard lessons are my favorite though
These triads remind me exactly the playing of both Pat and Eric. Thank you!
That sus4 triad run was one of the most beautiful things I've heard.
YES>>!!!! Pat is from KC.. more specific, Lees Summit, Mo... we love Matheny music!!.. Thanks for including him.. he is one of the greats who is not so well know.. but he should be!..
Actually, it's "Metheny" and he's pretty well known..especially, by those that understand music. His blend of complexity with feel is world class.
oh how i wished i was introduced to this & Rick's other stuff 50 yrs ago when i learnt
Thanks a lot for the shapes, especially with augmented, sus4 and lydian sound really interesting.
Kudos to the Maestro!
EXACTLY what I needed to improve my melodicism! Thank you Mr Beato once again 👍🏻
The onscreen tab! 👍
Thank you for spelling it out like this. You've given me something to workshop on the guitar for the next little while, which is immensely valuable right now. You did the same with essential finger picking patterns (maybe you could return to this again?). Keep up the great work.
I can tell Rick put a lot of effort into this vid, thank you for all of the awesome content my friend :)
Killer lesson. I realize this type of video isn't as "accessible" to a mass audience as "What Makes This Song Great," but thanks for still doing them. We "theory nerds" appreciate it. 👍
Great one Rick! Steve Morse is another master of those!
Just wonderful! Thanks a lot Rick!
Glad i got to see your video with Rhett before it got taken down\m/ Always good content my friend :)
Great stuff
Some great fingerings in there, can't wait to get them into my hands. Thanks for another great video Rick.
I have just watched the first minute and I really like how you get to the point so straight-forward!
Thanks Rick. This was exactly what I needed.
This is exactly what I’ve needed to expand my playing. Thank you!
That PRS looks stunning
I've been working with neoclassical spread triads hybrid picking works great also with them. Great video I need learn more of those great chord🎸👍
Spread triads - you just can't get enough of them! All the best from Finland, Rick - and happy birthday (sorry, I'm a couple of days late)!
This is a very good video, Rick...if I apply this at all in my playing, it is because it is part of a solo that I had to learn for some cover song. I know about various open chord inversions from music theory in college (and we had band and choir teachers in high school in our town in the late 70's that were just over the top good...so we were all very fortunate to sit under the teaching of those people)...but never thought to apply that in arpeggio fashion to guitar improvisation...I knew THAT people like Eric Johnson were doing these cool interval arpeggio things, but never realized the WHAT in theory that they were doing...and just a few minutes of watching this, I was like Ohhh...what they are doing I already know those concepts, just didn't realize what in theory they were applying to achieve that in their playing and improvising...wow man...hey, thanks for sharing this one with us...hope you and yours are well!!
When I first learned about triads ( I said "about" them, not that I've ever "learned" them, lol) the light came on the next time I listened to Eric Johnson. Not knowing anything about his methods, just enjoyed his music, I realized how integral triads were to his playing. I could hear it. I didn't need to see tabs or sheet music (not that I can read either one), I could hear it. May be no big deal to some, but it was a cool "ah ha" moment for me.
Stellar video, Rick! I am very grateful that you took your time to explain it to us with tabs and sheets.
I do have one question: Maybe I did not understand it correctly, but shouldn't it say "root position" instead of "2nd inversion" at around 4:08? Could somebody please explain it to me? Thanks in advance.
I think that was just a typo, 2nd inversion usually refers to whenever the 5th is on the bottom, and he does talk about a root position triad with the visual with 2nd inversion
Pat Metheny is one of my favorites.
I just have to wonder who 36 people would be that "Don't Like." I mean what a completely useful technique that can break a player out of a plateau and into new avenues of fretboard awareness and harmonic awesomeness. Thanks so much, I will be looking this up in your book.
WOA - I think some people who play guitar (youngish males in particular) have extremely large, extremely fragile egos, and find it painful to be reminded that the one thing they've pinned their illusion of superiority on, guitar playing, is much, much more complex than they initially imagined, and this realization hurts. And they're confronted with it again and again on the internet.
For some people, a phrase like "If you can incorporate these... into your playing, it will make your playing so much more interesting" in tandem with Rick's obvious command of his instrument and music theory, translates into "the guitar chops you thought you had are meaningless and trivial". Of course, this is not the author's intent!
So instead of seeing this video as a huge clue as to improve their playing (offered for free!), they see it as a reminder of how far they still have to go to have the skills they wish they already had.
Hence the dislikes. Just a guess.
Wonderful Rick! Thank you. Total eye opener for me...
I've been working on some of these since January. They are nice!
Great video man! This is gonna change my playing once I master them
Always great videos Rick!! Idea for a series..."What Makes "Musician" sound like "Musician". Maybe tone, preference in chord voicing, modes. etc. Example, What Makes Alex Lifeson Sound Like Alex Lifeson. Then demonstrate tone (maybe chorus pedal, 335 style guitar etc) Chords with open strings, Sus chords, Phrasing. You obviously know how to do this better than me! lol Please consider, Thanks!
Lee McIntyre Seconded!
I remember Eric Johnson being a 'young and upcoming prodigy' when I was in high school 🤘🏻
As always, so nicely done and we'll organized! Thank you Rick!
I like the "new look" of this! Very nice!
Diminished Spread Triads...Holy octopus fingers...lol👍😃 Best instruction video for me to-date. Others before are great, but this one really resonated as I love playing Triads...👍😃🎸🎶🎵🎼🎹🎷🎺
Wow you’re good Rick. I should have never stopped my scales. I was just getting into these when I stopped playing
these are great, definitely took notes immediately.