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I did a search on Bing and there are a lot of examples available. Here’s one website
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Hi Clayton, Ep326 will give you a good base of PDF’s (Major, Minor, Dominant 7, 6 and 9 chord triads). Major Triad PDF attached.
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Hi there. This lesson is the one I have questions about. I understand Major and minor triads and their inversions, but when I figure out the intervals for the dominant 7, 6, and 9 triads on the top three strings, there doesn’t seem to be an order that I can memorize. Sometimes the third is eliminated and sometimes the root is eliminated. I understand that the b7, 6, and 9 have to be there for the color you are creating. I just don’t know how to memorize them without a set order of intervals. Can someone help explain the best way to memorize them?
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Hi Ron,
I just read your post, so this is 4 month’s or so later. What I am doing is focusing on major and minor shapes. Rather than trying to memorize 6th, 7th and 9th shapes, I just focus on how to vary the major or minor shape to get there. If I want to play a 6 chord, I picture or play the major triad and use my free finger to move the 5th up 2 frets to the 6th.. (or up 3 frets for the b7). The ninth is simply that same 6 chord moved down 2 frets. Another option for the 7th chord is to play or picture the major triad and move the root down 2 frets. (We’re playing triads which are 3 notes and b7th chords have 4 notes, so 1 note has to be left out. In this case the root. Someone else in the band or on the track will play the root) After doing this over and over, you will begin to see them as stand alone shapes. Not to try and complicate things, but the 6 chord triad is the same as the relative minor. (C is C-E-G. C6 is C-E-A. Am is A-C-E which is the same 3 notes as C6. So if you have learned your 6 minor shapes, you have learned your 6 chords) What helps me with the visualization is to create a block diagram on Chordpic. I will put the variant I am playing with dark dots and leave the fundamental triad tone that was modified on the chord chart, but much lighter. Here is an example for G6 in the E-shape. (which is also Em, as just discussed) I always color code the chord tones on my scales and chord charts. 1 is green, 3 and b3 are amber and 5 is red, kind of like a traffic light. Notice I left the 5 on the chord diagram just to help with the visualization. It’s pretty obvious for this first example, but not so much for the 2nd. The second 7th chord was very hard for me to see at first, until I added what was missing. When seeing the missing C7-shape, it made sense as a 1-b7-5 triad.
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Hi,
Instead of learning by heart several tens of shapes, I really think you should do yourself a favour and build them yourself after having learned a small amount of theory. That’s an investment that will pay off a thousand times in the future.
1. Learn the intervals and how to play them on a guitar
2. Learn the definitions of the basic triads (major, minor, augmented, diminished)
3. map them on the guitar, as well as all their inversionsFor example:
A major triad is (R, 3, 5). The G major triad is therefore (G, B, D).
Find all the occurrences of G on the neck and implement the triad formula, i.e. G, a major third above G and then a minor third above B.The first inversion is (B, D, G).
Find all the occurrences of B and play a minor third above B and a perfect 4th above D.The second inversion is (D, G, B).
Find all occurrences of D and play a percent 4th above D and then a major 3rd above G.The other triads are:
– minor: (R, b3, 5)
– diminished: (R, b3, b5)
– augmented: (R, 3, #5)That’s only my 2 cents…
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Try FretMonster at https://songnotes.net/tools/fret-monster
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I do a bit of a major triad exercise at the start of each practice session. I got the workout from Adrian Woodward of ACPG Patreon page. He calls it the All Keys Major Triad Workout if you search his Patreon page. It’s great to not only help memorize the notes on the fretboard more quickly, but also to find the triads up and down the fretboard in all 12 major keys and hear the tonal differences of the different inversions. I don’t think much about the caged shapes, but rather concentrate on the note names. It’s a simple little exercise that I just spend a couple minutes on each day but I’m finding it very helpful. Adrian did include a worksheet to get started but it’s not mine to share and honestly, it’s more helpful to work them out myself without a cheat sheet. Them nasty triads!
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