3 Exercises to MASTER guitar TRIADS

Ry Naylor Guitar
Ry Naylor Guitar
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Published 2023-10-06
Want to add some triad exercises to your guitar practice? Not sure how to practice triads effectively? Well, you've come to the right place! Here are my three (four) best exercises to help you memorize your guitar triad shapes and become a triad master!

The triad practice begins here by learning the intervals of the major triad shape to help you better identify the different triad shapes. Keep the same static Root as you cycle through the four different triad forms - major triad - minor triad - diminished triad - (back to) major triad - augmented triad.

Your goal is to be able to easily do that from each triad shape (inversion) on each of the four different 3-string sets. I have my FREE PDF which will help you with this:
www.rynaylorguitar.com/free-guitar-triads-pdf

Exercise two is all about starting to use triads with a chord progression. You can use triads to play any chord progression, but we're using a 'one'-'two' progression in the major key to cover all shapes on a single string set.

Work the triad shapes in pairs until you're able to move through the progression freely up and down the strings. I have TABs and a backing track available on my Patreon page:
www.patreon.com/rynaylorguitar

You'll probably need those tabs for triad exercise three...the chord scale (with a twist!). I learned this approach from Mick Goodrick's Almanac of Guitar Voice Leading. For this you're playing through the chords of the major key in order whilst moving down the fretboard towards the headstock. This'll really test you!

For more on guitar triads, I have a full video course 'TRIADS: Inside Out' and I write about them in my eBook 'The Chord Book: Volume 1':
shop.rynaylorguitar.com/

For more about my teaching approach and ZOOM LESSONS:
www.rynaylorguitar.com/

0:00 Triads are AWESOME
0:21 The Static Root
0:40 Root Position Shapes
1:30 First Inversion Shapes
2:04 Second Inversion Shapes
2:43 The I-ii
4:02 Just quickly…
4:13 The I-ii Demonstration
5:06 Chord Scale (with a Twist)
5:22 A ‘normal’ triad chord scale
5:56 ‘Reverse’ chord scale
7:11 The FULL ‘reverse’ chord scale
7:40 Taking it the other way!
8:14 BONUS Testing Triads
8:55 FREE STUFF

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All Comments (21)
  • @joescmoe4784
    You can do so much with this, it's truly insanity! Almost literally, but it's so sweet when you nail it. Thanks for a "refresher" mini course 🤘
  • @suadiggitti
    I totally appreciate your time. Thank you. The PDF is Awsome!!!
  • @Chimp_No_1
    A very interesting way to work on triads ! Thanks for sharing !
  • @rockinrob6853
    100% guitar gold. Awesome job. Subscribed! 😎🇨🇦🎸
  • @taggart8
    Ryan has a impressive on line shop which covers a wide range of guitar material ranging from video courses including “triads inside and out” and E Books such as “ CAGED clarity”These courses are my foundation to understanding guitar 🎸 and are worthy of further investigation.
  • @nz7166
    amazing lesson! very helpful. ty
  • @MrArtist1971
    Love your channel Ry. You have a new sub. Haven't seen triads explained with such clarity. Great job.
  • @runninaround
    I must of replayed the first 4 minutes of this video for well over an hour, purely to nail the first bit properly. Just wanted to let you know how brilliant this Triad exercise is. the neck is finally starting to open up for me :D looking forward to the rest of the vid. subbed!
  • @Meir-zo6lz
    This is crazy wow I never had that expland so well thanks
  • @dgdg4164
    Really great lesson. Helped me to approach triads differently.
  • @bill-fugetaboutit
    I decided to learn triads and started with this video. It's a really great intro and Naylor packs in a lot! Thanks!