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I’ve been trying to get more comfortable with triads. I came up with this exercise to help. I find good ol pencil and paper really helps things stick!
-get some 6-per-page fretboard paper.
-on the first, write in all the Cs up to the 15th fret.
-mark dots everywhere there is a triad note. (Top 4 strings.)
-Repeat for F, G, Dm, Am, Em. (The 4,5,2,6,3 chords in C.)Benefits:
1)This exercise REALLY helped me see how all the C triads relate to each other.
2) It REALLY helped me see where the roots are in a given triad.
3) It also REALLY help me see chords in a key. (Eg, If I’m playing that A-shape C on the 5th, then where’s my closest G chord(s).Highly recommend if you’re working on triads (or fretboard mapping.) I’m gonna do this for all 12 keys too 🙂
PS use a pencil! 🤣
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Pencil and paper??? OMG, what a novel idea! I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one who sits around and draws stuff up the old fashioned way. I print out the tabs for all the AM lessons I wanted to learn and keep them in a 3-ring notebook. You can still buy those in office supply stores. And my tab sheets are usually full of notes in the margins and above the lines, so that when I want to re-visit an older lesson, it all comes back very quickly.
Sunjamr Steve
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Pencil and paper??? OMG, what a novel idea! I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one who sits around and draws stuff up the old fashioned way. I print out the tabs for all the AM lessons I wanted to learn and keep them in a 3-ring notebook. You can still buy those in office supply stores. And my tab sheets are usually full of notes in the margins and above the lines, so that when I want to re-visit an older lesson, it all comes back very quickly.
Haha! I’m old school I guess. I went to music school in 1998, we did most everything by pencil back then. Only a handful of digital music courses on desktop computers!
I find writing something like this by hand really reinforces the topic in your memory. I’m the same with lyrics.
I have finally broken down and put everything on iPad. I still feel a little dirty about it; but it’s soooo nice to have all my stuff from several projects , plus bass and guitar lessons & exercises all in one place! I still have maybe half a dozen binders and countless folders on the shelf, can’t get rid of them 😁
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Thanks Alan. Great strategy! I am also wrapping my head around the triads and fretboard mapping. I love playing and fingerpicking on the higher 3 to 4 strings.
Looking at your chart and the minor triads, could one take a different colour for example and pencil in the flattened 3rd of the triad for the minor shapes? So for example write out the D triads across the board as you did with C and then pencil in the flattened 3rd note in a different colour to show the minor triad? I’m trying to streamline your wonderful chart so I don’t have to memorize too many for all the keys. Of course, B would be the only addition remaining. Hoping this makes sense.
Thanks for sharing.Greg
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My first thought is maybe an open circle to denote a minor 3rd. I like where you’re going with that, being able to easily see the difference between a major and minor triad.
I picked the top 4 strings mainly because I’m a bass player and that’s what I need to work on! But it seems to me most of that kind of playing (triad based rhythm guitar, and the leads, obviously) is on those higher strings.
When I did this I thought “I wish it had 7” to fit the B in there!
Glad you got something out of it.
PS the lesson that really got me rolling on triads was EP356. Jam packed with info, and connecting them to scales. The recent lesson EP446 was really good too.
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