Triads are the SECRET to good melody. Guitar Lesson - MicroLesson ML103

all right so this is going to be a short video a little micro lesson but it's something that you can take away and start applying to your playing right away this is something I went over with my son last night and uh he's learning to play guitar and he was able to start using it right away and it really enhanced his playing and I think it will for you too so what we were doing is we were playing uh we were just doing a little Jam last night now he's playing a G chord A C chord and a d chord just kind of looping through a 145 progression I asked him to improvise on top of that and he was able to do it a little bit actually I'm going to put on a Jam track with those same three chords so that I can demonstrate everything I'm going to talk you through all right so I started playing these chords there's a G chord there's a c there's a g for the one and then there's a d for the five chord just repeating that g c and d basic you know generic sounding thing and I asked my son Ben I said all right now improvise something on top of this now he's been using used to playing some kind of bluesy stuff uh this has got more of a country Vibe and he but he ended up doing the minor pentatonic thing he did something like this went right into G minor pentatonic [Music] scale which there's nothing wrong with I mean that that does work his phrasing wasn't bad he was playing little phrases and stopping stopping on the right note a lot of times he would come up into little bends like that but uh I said well why don't you play some major pentatonic scale stuff just to sort of you know counter that a little bit and he so he did he went something like this obviously I'm paraphrasing you know I don't remember what he did but it was you know it was good it was it sounded like major pentatonic scale so then I asked him to blend the two which he kind of did although it was in it wasn't seamless but he would go for one and then he would go you know so that may sound familiar to some of you uh to be in that place of you know you you know a little bit about your major and minor pentatonic scale but it still kind of sounds Bland it doesn't sound like you're really hitting the right notes all the time or or or playing very melodic so this is what we worked on and this made a huge difference in just a few minutes and I'm hoping it does for you too uh we started with playing our G chord using the E shape from the cage system just playing that bar chord now these three fingers are making up the E are making up that e shape that's where that comes from so I said you don't need to play the entire chord uh cuz he was struggling with bar chords he still kind of has a hard time with that but he can play this he could play this little Triad the top part of that chord like this right so you bar these two uh strings on the third fret strings one and two and then play the fourth fret third string and you're playing a G chord this is your G note by the way that note name on your first string so you got your G then if you come all the way up here there's your D and then there's your G so now we go through the chords using this Triad like this just slid into them too there's my C there's my G and then there's my D so you have your one and then your four this is the eighth fret that's my Z note and so we did that for a while um and then we split that Triad into two parts so you have there's three strings in your Triad so you could tap that into two parts and you can play strings two and three at the same time or you can play strings one and two at the same time so you can do this kind of thing so here's two and three just that little Harmony I can do it for each of these chord shapes by the way right now we can go into Strings one and two which is easier just you know one little bar there and then you can start putting them [Music] together right that kind of thing started to sound a little more melodic now it's not great yet but we're getting somewhere so let's make this more efficient so it's not efficient jumping from here all the way up to here let me talk about how to do that so jumping from this G all the way up here to my C and then all the way up here to my D it might s it might sound okay but it's not very efficient we want to move my C and my D down here so we're all in the same neighborhood that way it's just a tight concise little neighborhood that we're working within and you're able to to get to the notes a lot quicker and a lot easier and be more accurate so that's my G for the C I ask myself where's my nearest C to where I'm at where's my nearest C Triad we're going to stay with this Triad theme for now well I've got a C chord right here using that a shape caged and if I look at the top three strings of that it looks like this so I've got my G and then I've got my C right now I can always take that and go up two Frets and play my D that way or uh you know just keeping with the concise theme you know where a closer D there's actually one here I'm now I'm limiting myself to the those top three strings but that's the D that we all know right that first sort of chord one of our first chords we learned so we have our g c d and it's right here all together so you [Music] have so you can slide in this time I'm sliding in it's the same thing as doing it up here but I'm doing it down here now now I'm sliding in on just strings one and two out of that Triad like that so that can represent my four chord there's my one chord and then my four chord I've got the D here I've also got a D7 which is even sounds better and it's right here now that's like taking your c chord and then moving it up two Frets and then putting your pinky down on the fifth fret third string and playing it like that so you've got got 1 4 5 and you can break this into pieces strings 2 and three strings three and four or strings four and two to get that harmonized six there's all kinds of things you can do if you start breaking these Triads down into smaller fragments like that so uh the last little point on this I want to make is going uh take like when we go to our one chord and we go to our G you can go so what I'm doing there is I'm playing my Triad my G Triad and then I'm coming up to my C just for a moment and then going back to my G and this is something I talk about quite a bit it's I call it a gospel change to me it's something I hear gospel piano players doing you play the one chord and then you play whatever chord you're on actually forget me saying the one chord whatever chord you're playing in a song you can go to that chords four chord so G chord it's four chord is a c so I'm just playing strings two and three out of the the C chord using the a shape so now I've got and then I've got this right so let's go to my four chord c now its four chord would be an F right the the four chord of of a c is an F so you can go right now that's my D shape right there now I don't need to play all of that here's how I do it and you you can just memorize this little pattern here you can play uh that strings one and two like we talked about and then lift my index finger and now I've got my middle and ring finger up here just playing strings one and two ring finger is on the sixth fret second string middle finger is on the fifth fret first string so you have for your four chord then back to your one chord and then let's go to the five chord and go like this and and I'm just playing that D7 chord that I just showed you I'm playing strings four and two at the same time then the third string and then back to four and two that's one way you could do it you could come down and play your D7 like this right so you've got options now one other thing I want to attached to this is each of these Triads you can play their seventh chord and that's where it starts to sound very bluesy and it starts to tie that pentatonic scale stuff back into this so here's my G right strings 2 and three strings one and two which we've talked about there's my the four chord of that chord but then you've got this if we're on strings one and two watch this oh see that's cool that's that's the blues so that's six fret second string now that's one of your notes from your minor pentatonic right but I'm just when I'm playing that that's also a note it's your flat 7 from like your G7 chord right that's that note so if you think about where that note is in relation to this Triad now again we're just on strings 1 two and three so we're not all over the fretboard but now I can [Music] [Applause] [Music] go right I'm starting to play some real cool harmonies and stuff out of this chord shape now let's go to the C chord in this neighborhood look at that so for this we have this the top part of our a shape and then we have this think of your A7 chord down in first position you if you play it up here where you Bor the first three strings on the fifth fret and then you do sixth fret first string you've got a C7 there's your flat seven so now you can go and hit that flat seven for your four chord so now you've got your one four back to your one and then for your five chord there's your seven which we already talked about or down here right or you could come up here and go same thing as the C you just up two Frets you've got all these options but it's all in the same little area here now the magic happens when you take this idea of what we just played over these chord shapes and you take those pentatonic scales the major the minor and you weave it all together so I'm going to go back to the Jam track and start doing that now to weave that all together into one cohesive solo [Music] n [Music] a

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Length: 12min 12sec (732 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 19 2023