You've NEVER Used Triads THIS WAY!

foreign [Music] it seems like all you hear guitar instructors talk about these days is Triads out of all the Triad lessons I've ever seen and are out there there's really only one that stuck with me and it's from this guy so I recently bought these videos that Larry Carlton made with Hal Leonard back in 1989 and 1992. and in this one he shows off what he calls the super arpeggio so the super arpeggio is really just a system of stacking major and minor Triads on top of each other and you can do minor on top of major too we'll talk about all of that but it's really going to be a way that we can get out of playing the Pentatonix and sound more sophisticated with her improvising so what you heard me playing was basically like a minor blues progression a minor D minor and E minor and I can use this super arpeggio Triad stacking method over the that to give me really endless possibilities so before we jump in this is a prssedgt and you may have seen me playing this a bit on the channel I did a demo with it I've used it in some other videos and we're about to hit 70 000 subscribers on the channel and I love celebrating Milestones with a great guitar giveaway so click the link below enter to win this very prssedgt one of the most talked about guitars of 2023 and you can enter to win it so click below and I was playing a really interesting overdrive pedal too it's a really basic circuit it's basically like a blues breaker style pedal it's called the chat breaker from rev and rev did sort of a goof or a spoof and said hey what if we asked chat GPT to design a pedal for us they did apparently it got about 75 percent of the way there they took it across the finish line and from what I know this is the first AI design overdrive pedal so I'll put a link below to the chat breaker you can check that out you can also grab the track for free you know I love giving you guys that stuff so let let's jump in and talk about how we're going to use this super arpeggio or Triad stacking to get us out of the pentatonic world let's do it [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] so let's say you know Triads all over the guitar but you haven't been able to make much music with them I empathize with that because this isn't very appealing to me let's say we're playing an A Minor triad [Music] you might be saying to yourself I don't know how to use that or put that into a solo well as long as you know those shapes and more I.E the Triads all over the guitar will be in business because what we're going to do is we're going to take an A minor chord and we're going to do a sequence of playing A Minor triad and a major Triad then A Minor triad and a major Triad and all of those Triads will work and give you lots of interesting sounds over the a minor chord okay so we play that a minor and I'm going to take an A Minor triad a c e we know all of those notes work really well against that chord because those are the notes that make the chord now if we take the third which is C and we play a major Triad off of that c e g we are also playing notes that work really well over that chord [Music] so we had a minor major off the Third let's do another minor off of the third of that chord which would be e and then e g b so in that little area we have all these fun sounds a minor C major E minor [Music] and we didn't do this once okay so a minor C major E minor and we can do it in other spots like here A minor C major E minor G major see if I went minor major off the third minor off the third major off of that third what you're doing is every time you go up you're adding one new sound to an A minor chord and you're implying a chord like an A Minor [Music] an A minor seven an A Minor nine an A Minor eleven and all of those tones you're able to get in this way so what we're going to do is play just the a minor portion of that minor blues and I'll I'll pick around and I'll talk through what we're doing and I think it's going to open your eyes and your ears so I have an A Minor Loop set up here for so that we can really flesh out these Triads over top of the chord it's a really great way to do it so you're just hearing how the notes work picking which ones you like and you don't like because the further you take this the more outside it gets and it doesn't always have a tone that's is centered and pleasing but it's still correct you just have to resolve it okay so you'll also see how they're very closely related to the minor pentatonic scale and it's a great approach it just makes a lot of sense once you know your Triads so I'm going to roll this and we'll talk you through it so let's just play an A Minor triad perfect [Music] now the next one be a C major that's c e g I'm getting that flat seven sounds really good [Music] I can go to the next Triad which would be E minor [Music] now it's starting to sound more interesting because we added the ninth [Music] now I have these Melodies [Music] Blues [Music] answer with it it'll sound really fun like you're going back and forth between these Concepts and Blues [Music] you can play it anywhere wherever you can find those Triads you can do it like here's a minor C major E minor and then G it gets a little more interesting as you go up [Music] you can do it here [Music] you can go even higher add the 6th or the 13 it'll sound kind of weird [Music] remember what I said as you start to extend the sequence of minor major minor major Triad on top of one another you will get some more outside tones that you might want to reel in but I stick to the close of the vest and and really land on some of the the nines and the 11s that I hear that sound really good against this chord you know it's a pretty cool thing then what we're going to do is let me bring in the whole minor blues uh progression and then we can do it over each chord so it gets even bigger but it's really really fun and useful let's do that so now I have the entire form pulled up so we're going to play A Minor D minor and E minor in our 12 Bar Blues form and we can Target each one of those chords with this Triad approach a minor [Music] we can do D Minor here if we wanted to we can go here [Music] you can do fun stuff for E minor [Music] here I went through those chords in a really really fun way it's Triads not arpeggios they start calling it arpeggios when you add a fourth note so let that be the difference if you have questions about it and you're like wow you're jumping around a lot there chasing those chords well in my mind I figured out where all of those live on the guitar and I can jump to them relatively quickly and more so I've learned minor major minor major minor major minor major minor major foreign over an E minor for instance my brain is just set ready to go and snag those it takes a while but you can do it all right so let's play through the track and I'll walk you through it slowly a minor [Music] a D minor [Applause] back to Blues [Music] I could do it here a [Music] mix and match it with the pentatonic I have a D Minor here [Music] that was all Blues E minor D minor [Music] now over the whole thing I could play all Blues foreign maybe I do it approaching [Music] yeah yeah something like that [Music] so you see how I'm mixing matching those ideas to get you know sort of a on again off-again Triad Blues pentatonic idea happening and if you listen to like guys like Larry Carlton he jumps around the neck in these really melodic ways and not just over a minor blues over lots of different songs and I think you're going to get a lot of mileage I know I already have just exercising these Concepts play one chord find a loop that you can do with just one chord work it out see what speaks to you and then you'll be using your Triads in a whole new way so that's my story on Triads and I'm sticking to it because it's made the most sense to me out of all the stuff I've ever seen on Triad lessons Triads are great to really learn the fretboard you'll get some melodic improvising out of them but this method kind of takes it to a new place and one that I think you're probably Hearing in your head but you have yet to sort of wrap your hands around and don't let anyone tell you that you can't use scales and Triads vice versa it's all coming from the same place so make sure you take it advantage of all the stuff that you've been working on so hard to improvise your own great solos make sure you grab the track below so you can practice these Triads along with me and don't forget you can enter to win this prssed GT this very guitar we're giving it away loads of tones it's really really killer and if any of this was helpful at all and you dig the lessons be sure and subscribe to the channel because we do it all the time and your support really helps we're going to get to 70 000 and Beyond with the help of folks like you all right we'll see you on the next one

Channel: CoreyCongilio

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Length: 13min 4sec (784 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 01 2023