Start Practicing Triads EVERYDAY Like THIS to SKYROCKET Your Guitar Playing
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I really love how there's a camera view of what we as guitar players see, there isn't that extra thought process of "Ok, how is he holding that position," or, "I can't see where his fingers are, have to look up that chord", This view with the lessons makes a night and day difference. Keep it going! Thanks
Woohoo! So glad you dig the angle.
fantastic teaching . thank you so much !
Super kind! Thank you
Daniel, terrific lesson! You’re one of the best, clear, concise, always an eye on the musical .
Very kind! Thanks so much for being here.
Thank you for taking the time to share this. It will really help understand triads and the fret board much more.
Thanks so much! So glad you found it helpful
Have been playing for 50+ years and don’t know any of this by name. So I’m trying!
Thanks for your great explanation -
Excellent hope it helped!
One of the best lesson. I have ever watched.
Very kind. Thanks for taking the time to watch!
There I was, day 1 of practicing my triads, and who should come in with a perfectly timed lesson!
This channel is great. I only found you a few days ago and I’ve already learnt so much.
Incredible. I am super glad to have you here!
This is one of the best lessons I’ve seen on TH-cam , very sound information and extremely useful. Thanks Daniel!
Wonderful. So glad it was helpful for you.
I learned about triads a couple of years ago, and while I have a good handle on them. I have yet to make them sound musical. I feel that your instructional vids are more intentional in that regard. I'm glad I found you on YT. The 3 -2 pentatonic scale has been very informative to making my playing more musical. I'm totally at loss as to how to play with/to the changes. That seems important.
Try using a looper pedal, it will improve with making them more musical. Record a simple 4 bar riff/chord progession in whatever key you want, then just solo over top. You can let it play while you layout notes/triads and build off them. Daniel's backing tracks work the same, but having a short loop lets you rework little patterns quickly. And it's more fun than just memorizing chord locations. I just started doing it and practice some hybrid picking with slides, bends etc. Check his other video on adding different techniques.
@@deckmonkey1459 Sounds good, any advice on a good looper for a beginner? Thank you.
". I have yet to make them sound musical" at the very least you can use them to play chords!
Thanks so much. I wouldn't actually recommend a looper. I'd recommend you play along to songs you like, but fill in your own triads...higher above.
OR, much better than a looper, try using a DAW. You can really stack parts and it will improve your rhythm much more. Loopers are a little tricky to use...
@ I have the Boss RC-20XL. It's an older one and you can find them cheap used.
I got to say Thank you.
I have been enjoying Triads and started thinking I needed to learn licks to become more melodic because I was just playing progressions with pattern memory.
But with this lesson I just need to continue to melodicly Master Triads, which I am fairly comfortable with already and learn how to build them on the fly with a combination of the number system and 3NPS within the string sets.
Kudos
Glad to have you here. Thank so much for watching.
Great lesson Daniel ... loving these three string triad shapes!!!
Thanks Phil!!
I learned all of this thru trial-and-error but it took a while. I wish I'd discovered your channel sooner! I've been touting your channel to my newbie guitar friends and I'll be checking out all of your videos. Great job, Dan!
Incredibly cool. Thanks so much for sharing them!! Hoping to help as many as possible.
Triads were one of those breakthrough moments for me. I love triads. I didnt learn them for the longest time
Nice! Glad they are helpful for you
Great theory lesson
Thanks for watching!
Great Lesson! I picked up my guitar and tried it! I hope to drill this all week. Thanks!
Wonderful! So glad it made you want to play! Have a great week.
Outstandingly good video!
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much.
Really helpful lesson. Thanks!
Wonderful! Glad it was helpful!
Excellent lesson. Thanks!
Thanks so much!
Great lesson, thanks! Simple, practical and very musical.
Thanks so much for watching!
Halfway intermediate player here - Just DL'd the PDF's, looking forward to putting this to use. Thank you
Excellent! Thank you.
Very good explanation and demonstration of triads.😊😊😊
Thanks for watching. Have a great one.
Do I see a Bo Diddley style guitar way in the background? How cool !!! Very nice lesson. Just found this channel recently. Very very good. Thank you.
Yes! Cigar box guitar from Canada. Thanks!
Thank you Daniel. Great lesson, which I will now add to my practice routine. I have been practicing my Barre Chords and Triads using the cycle of 4ths (C - F - Bb/A# - Eb/D# - Ab/G# - Db/C# - Gb/F# - B - E - A - D - G). Starting out really slow and gradually increasing the metronome speed, working my way up. This helps with memorization. I have now added Pentatonic shapes using the same routine
I've also been working on playing pentatonic shapes in the same area of the fretboard using the cycle of 4ths in the same way. For example, starting at the 3rd fret, playing 'C' major (Am) using position 5, then 'F' major (Gm) in position 3 etc.
Excellent! Keep up the great work.
Nice!
good lesson. Needed that.
Thanks for watching!
This is gold!!!
So glad you dug it!
Excellent instruction
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome lesson, thanks!🙏
Thanks for taking the time!
Good stuff
Thanks for watching!
Very helpful. Thanks.
Excellent! Thanks for watching.
I do this all the time. I never thought of it as any kind of technique or anything. But if you have one guitar doing some chords and another, maybe with a little dirt on it, playing simple three note patterns on a different chords shape higher up the neck, (same chords of course) it sounds real nice.
Excellent. You’re ahead of the curve!
Thank you 🎉
Super kind! Thanks so much!
Great lesson...what do you mean by "15 logical major scales"? shouldn't it be 12? thx
Thanks so much.
There are 12 different notes in our musical system, however, many of these notes have multiple names such as A# and Bb. Or G# and Ab.
My "15 Logical Major Scales" concept covers all the potential major scales/keys that go as far as 7 sharps or 7 flats. So we would avoid the sillyness of double sharps or double flats. That ends up giving us 15 total with 3 of them really sounding the same, but depending upon who you're working with...might choose to call it by sharp or flat. Those are...
Key of B or Cb.
Key of F# or Gb
Key of C# of Db.
Those are the 3 that end up getting us to 15.
A big help thank you.
Thanks for taking the time.
Nice lesson, I think triads is where it's at! That's a nice looking alternative to a Gibson semi hollow body, who makes it?
Thank you! This is made by Collings down near Austin, Texas.
Another fantastic lesson. Do you have anything where you do something similar either out of one position or with other string sets? Trying improve knowledge in one place on fretboard as well as each string set. (I hope that made sense, Daniel)
So the progressions part is essentially in one position.
I would recommend challenging yourself to copy and paste the ones I talked about here(download the diagrams and use the blank pages), and move them to strings DGB, ADG, and EAD.
The augmented triad don't never get no love.
They are awesome but they aren’t diatonic and are too much for a video like this. Already was too long. 👍
@@DanielSeriffMusic 😆
Brilliant lesson but no augmented triads? They are useful and get used as often as dim chords. Ok they are not part of the diatonic chord scale but raising the fifth note of a major triad builds an aug or + chord which means that augmented are the 'other' chord made from only three notes. They sound fab in a jazz blues sequence. 👍
Love them but this video lesson is definitely not on that level. Just diatonics for this.
Fitting too much into one lesson is a death sentence for a video. This was already pushing the limits.
@DanielSeriffMusic I dont know if its the fact the I know everything you're teaching or not, but you're by far the best teacher on the net in that you lay out everything so simply yet teach fair complex things. It took a few year to understand the caged system. Understanding each shape is made up of triads,, and you can play triads on any 3 sets of strings, and each shape is a different inversion, the shapes are found within the scales, and the triads are the chord tones, on and on with everything CAGED teaches. But you lay it out so simply I think it would have made my learning much much faster.
I thing I'm not following is "15 logical major scales" - there are 12 semi tone chromatically, 7 diatonic notes (which I dont think you mean because you teach harmonizing the major scale), 12 triad shapes using 3 string set (123, 234, etc), so I'm totally lost with 15 logical major scales. Can you explain please?
Technically there's only 12 notes. But because there are enharmonic notes, meaning the same note has two different labels, such as d-flat is the same note as c sharp. So when you go around the circle of fifths, some keys have two names. Based on whether or not it's perceived from a sharp or a flat. So if you look at a picture of the circle of fifths, you'll see at the bottom the key of d-flat or c sharp is the same notes. F sharp and G flat are the same notes. B and C flat are the same notes. So if you add those in you get 15 keys out of 12 notes
@@larryd7196 - ah, that make sense. Thanks
Thanks for the very kind comment. Larry already answered but I'll give my quick two cents.
Yes...you only hear the notes as 12 different pitches. But they have multiple names. And when we start using them in keys...our basic major scales either have zero sharps and flats (C), sharps = sharp keys, or flats = flat keys.
In music, certain instruments favor using sharps vs flats.
So on some charts, you may find something written in the key of C# major.
But on other charts they might choose to write it in Db major.
The biggest thing to recognize is that...it's important to know 0 sharps, up to 7 sharps, and up to 7 flats. That'll give you every key...That'll get us all the options and not needing to dig into any silly double sharps or double flats.
Hope that helps.
@@DanielSeriffMusic It does, and I appreciate you taking time to answer me. Thank you.
Dude I love the title! 😂
Gotta use what works, my man ;)
I would say your cool thumbnail worked much better than mine!
@@DanielSeriffMusic Heck Yeah, That's the name of the game. ha. Keep going dude.
Will this work on acoustic?
100% yes as long as your action isn't too high.
How are you supposed to know where all the various triads are for a given key? Do you have to literally map out all the notes on the entire fretboard and put together notes on different strings and frets to make up the triads, or do you have to memorize a bunch of additional traid chords or what? I'm so confused.
Hey! A lot to unpack here in a TH-cam comment but will try my best.
How are you supposed to know where all the various triads are for a given key?
They are always the same triads in any major key.
Sounds like you need to spend time on 3 main things.
1. Learn the notes on your neck. I recommend learning where the natural notes are on each string. You should work on this a bit everyday. Say the notes out loud.
2. Learn the major scale away from the guitar and understand how it is built.
3. Realize that in each major scale, there are 7 basic triads. They always go in order…1 is major, 2 is minor, 3 is minor, 4 is major, 5 is major, 6 is minor, 7 is diminished.
Do you have to literally map out all the notes on the entire fretboard and put together notes on different strings and frets to make up the triads, or do you have to memorize a bunch of additional traid chords or what?
You do not need to memorize a bunch of additional shapes.
Let’s say for example…if you wanted to do what I did in this lesson…in the key of D major instead.
All you would have to do is move everything up I did a whole step (2 frets up the neck towards the body of the guitar).
This would give you everything I did in this lesson in D instead.
Or maybe you want to play it all in the key of A major.
Move everything I did here down 3 frets towards the headstock of the guitar.
All of the shapes would be the same.
Now, that being said…if you wanted to move to different string sets…the shapes change a bit but not significantly. Learn the 3 things I mentioned first.
I think this triad video is a bit ahead of your theory skills. I would watch this video: th-cam.com/video/W8WIEgavHc0/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUaZGFuZWlsIHNlcmlmZiBtdXNpYyB0aGVvcnk%3D
I also have a full music theory interactive ebook if you're interested.
Great lesson! But no backing track, pdfs only
So sorry! Bookmark it. It will be in there tomorow. I've been on the couch all day with NAMM-flu. Trying to drag myself back to work tomorrow.
If you play ukulele, which starts on the 5th fret of the guitar and uses the 4 highest strings, you've already have many triads for the Guitar how do I know? I play both guitar & ukulele. Cool fact: All 4 Beatles played ukulele & George Harrison constantly use ukulele chord shapes in his lead guitar playing.
Uke is awesome. Thanks for watching!
I don't think there are 15 major scales (5:36)
There are 12 different notes in our musical system, however, many of these notes have multiple names such as A# and Bb. Or G# and Ab.
My "15 Logical Major Scales" concept covers all the potential major scales/keys that go as far as 7 sharps or 7 flats. So we would avoid the sillyness of double sharps or double flats. That ends up giving us 15 total with 3 of them really sounding the same, but depending upon who you're working with...might choose to call it by sharp or flat. Those are...
Key of B or Cb.
Key of F# or Gb
Key of C# of Db.
Those are the 3 that end up getting us to 15.
True every one is different appreciate feedback on my original guitar compositions
Thanks so much!
I'll just try harder :)
You got this!! It just takes figuring out how to digest it into your own approach. Hope my videos help.