The Best Triad Exercises - How To Get The Essentials Right
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- Triads are an essential part of all music, not just Jazz, but you want to study them in the most efficient way. This video covers 5 triad exercises that help you not only learn triads but also improve your fretboard knowledge.
Putting Triads To Use as Arpeggios and Jazz Chords
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Content:
00:00 Intro
00:27 #1 Diatonic Triads - Most Important Triad Exercise
01:22 Creating Triad Inversions
02:41 Technique For Diatonic Triads
03:09 #2 Diatonic Triads Along The Neck
03:47 A Fantastic Alternate Picking Exercise
04:17 #3 Inversions Along The Neck
04:51 #4 Turning Inversions into Vertical Triads
05:31 #5 Repeating Cell-Shapes
06:01 Triads as Upper-structure arpeggios and Jazz Chords
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How do you practice and use triads?
Applying Triads and Arpeggios to a II V I: ua-cam.com/video/5hmSQuMIf-w/v-deo.html
Hi Jens thank you so much for this, what I’m looking for is a total reference of all the triads and the way to drill them -it looks like this could be it but when I go to your website to download the PDF it just takes me to a page with dozens of links on it and I can’t seem to find a specific triad reference.
@@autistichead8137 The PDF is there just use ctrl-F to find it :) (or join Patreon and find it there)
I confess I watch you often just because hearing you speak relaxes me and because when you explain it always sounds feasible, possible and I have always liked what I call your quiet enthusiasm so thanks Jens :-))
Thank you Marie! That is very nice compliment :)
Not only great info, but a nice morning laugh, great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm just working on triads, this release was timed perfectly. Thanks😁
Go for it :)
@@JensLarsen you have an absolutely wonderful and engaging side of youtube; we all really appreciate you and the help that you give us with every lesson you do.
@@roniorae so true. This channel UA-cam at its absolute best.
Me too! Just playing around with them for the last 2 days + Jens' 5 Basic Jazz Chord Excercise video has expanded my playing and freightboard knowledge dramatically. Playing Jazz actually feels attainable now!
Great video and content Jens, thanks so much!
Very cool lesson Jens - lots to work on with the inversions! Also - love Molly Tuttle!
This was an incredible lesson! As I was playing some of the triads and inversions in your examples I was watching how they came out of the scales and associated chords, and then you brought that up!
Great lesson! I have never quite mastered my triads and this will make a huge difference thank you
I love that your jaw dropping example is Molly Tuttle!! She is amazing in so many ways ☺️
Indeed 🙂
Triads can unlock the upper extensions in a very melodic way too. You can hear that all over Bill Evans playing. Thanks as always Jens
Como siempre una lección formidable. Muchas gracias maestro.
Great foundation and perfect way to navigate the fretboard when creating lines spanning more than one position :)
The Monster triad lesson!!! You cover really everything. Great lesson & great work.
Glad you liked it!
Great video Jens ! Very instructive as usual ! Thank you so much !
right before this video dropped, I was encouraged by George Benson's There Will Never Be Another You solo to practice chord soloing, and then this video dropped. Jens is so iconic. Glad the maj triad shapes and its inversions were in the video, saves people time.
thx for these videos jens! u are an excelent teacher ive seen the difference between your early videos and current ones and its very notorious u have grown so much! congratz
Happy to hear that!
Excellent teaching here - complex musicality made easily understandable. Thank you!
Thank you 🙂
Great video Jens! You gave me quite a few ideas to expand my triads practice :)
Excellent!
Great lesson!
One of the few i actually completely understand since i've been studying triads already for a while :D
Thanks! Keep at it, then they all start to make sense :D
your lessons are clear and practical for self-learners. thank you
You are welcome!
This is, hands down, THE VERY BEST EXCERCISES SET on Triads all over UA-cam!!
Hartelijk Dank Mr. Larsen!
Amazing.
Glad you like them!
Fantastic tutorial---super informative and easy to understand, great job, thank you very much!!
Glad it was helpful!
Wow, this is a great lesson, a LOT of information packed into a few minutes. And thanks so much for giving wonderful Molly Tuttle a shout out! It's always great to see jazz musicians who appreciate the bluegrass folks!
Thanks Blaine! It's so odd that Bluegrass is not really a thing over here so I didn't hear about until 10 years ago, but I really like it!
This one is absolute gold, thank you!
This is good stuff! Excellent material for my exercise. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Hi jens, Your technique is great. Thanks for teaching your knowledge.
Glad you like it 🙂
very good lesson !! short and clear and full of great ideas and exercises !
Glad you liked it!
Another great lesson, your lessons are so concise!
Thank you 🙂
Amazing lesson. I've fallen in love with guitar again through your approach to teaching. I stopped learning but never playing. These compact lessons help me not feel so lost!
Great to hear! Go for it!
Another great lesson! Thanks Jens !
Glad you liked it!
Thanks Jens. This one video will keep me busy for the rest of 2021....
Go for it 🙂
I'm so psyched you gave a shout out to Molly! She is incredible! So are you, Jens.
Molly is indeed amazing :)
Great explanation I’m studying classical guitar but what your giving is HUGE
thank you
Thank you, David! Glad it was helpful!
As a begginer, this is the most useful lesson I've had... Thanks very much and greetings from Croatia ❤️❤️❤️
You're very welcome!
Thank you for giving us some really useful practice exercises. (And, great clip of Molly Tuttle!)
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
Good lesson. I WILL practice this.
Maaaaaaan, great and simple ideas to study. Thanks a lot!
Glad you like it 🙂
Excellent concepts and very useful.
Thank you 🙂
Great stuff. Thanks Jens!
Glad it was helpful!
thank you so much mr Larsen!
Glad you find it useful 🙂
Fantastic! Thank you Jens.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great lesson. Triads are so amazingly useful.
Glad you like it!
Great lesson; thank you for sharing.
Glad you liked it!
Exellent eexercises. Thaank you very much
You are welcome!
Hello Jens, everyday i watch one or two of your videos and get around 50% of what you are teaching. But this 50% are what makes me feel I can get the Jazz sound and learn more about what I want to play. Its Jazz.. ha! Thank you for your work. Jonas
Glad you put it to use 🙂
only at 0:53 sec in and already a very valuable lesson and practice exercise for me. Thank Jens! Such a great teacher.
Glad it\s useful! :)
Thx for the great exercises
Glad you like them!
Thank you for the lesson Jens. I'm a neo-classical metal guitarist who's always had an interest in Jazz since being exposed to so many great fusion musicians as a kid in the 80's. I still can't play jazz very well at all, but it's certainly always made what I do a lot more interesting, at least imo.
Learn jazz, play music.
Great to hear! Go for it :)
Another great lesson! Thanks!
My pleasure!
Amazing video! Thank you!!
Glad you liked it!
Great stuff. Thanks Jens>
My pleasure!
Great lesson Jens. I need to learn my neck better horizontally.
Go for it!
Grate lesson thank you sir ❤️❤️
You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂
Very useful. Thanks!
Glad to hear that!
God one. Useful, and easy to understand.
Great lesson, thank you Jens. Seems that triads are popular on youtube right now, but we can never get enough lessons about this subject. As I mentioned at other videos, a great tutorial I learned this from a long time ago was the two part REH videos Creative Force by Pat Martino on VHS (like I said, a long time ago), you can find them here on UA-cam now, if anybody is interested. Have a nice day.
Thank you 🙂
0:53 is a light-bulb moment. I hadn't seen the diatonic chords represented within one position like that before. Nice job, Jens!
No...great lesson. Thanks.
Will practice this until I dream about it.
Ok days of work are ahead...
Thank you very much for your lessons anyway. They are very interesting and useful :D
Go for it 🙂
Triads are Gold..
Thanks a lot. That was quite some information packed in just over 6 minutes! I counted 11 triads in your first exercise. Add the inversions and we get 33 triads to memorize and practice. We then add the 315 and 513 pattens and we get close to 100 triads. Along the neck and in the other string sets, we get another 100 triads, at least. And this is only for Cmaj. Then you have all the other major keys, and then the harmonic and melodic minor. That's a few thousand triads to memorize and practice.... Glad the next video is not until next week. 😉
Well, if you organize it like that then everything is impossible. Tying your shoes is 560 different movements and coordinated actions with three limbs :)
If you focus on how much is really the same and just connect the information then it gets a lot easier.
@@JensLarsen Of course! Thanks. I made my comment "med glimten i ögat"
Hello professor Larson,
I'm going through your book entitled
"Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts"
and I absolutely love the way you present Concepts and show various exercises that show how to make use of them. It's one thing to be a great musician but your teaching
abilities are truly admirable ..
Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge about music, your a very generous person.
Bless you Jens.
Michael Gonzales
Thank you very much! Really glad to hear that!
Yes !! I 'am' going to practice...a lot.
You got this!
Very useful. 👍🏼
Glad you think so!
@@JensLarsen definitely 👍🏼
Thank you lars
Glad you like it 🙂
I know your work, really impressed, these days, to be honest, feel really bad, about guitars that slipped through my hands, especially the artists that came before me, but I will tell you, always found a home, for those instruments,. for the next., great player, .
Thanks!
Thank you for the support! Glad you like the video :)
you earned my like with that edit with red eye balls lol... great personality my man
Awesome! Thank you!
I’m a pianist, so obviously the inversions have different implications on fingering and hand position. However, I hadn’t really thought about building lines as simply as triad inversions. It’s tempting just to play arpeggios from root position incorporating some passing notes, but switching it around a bit adds interest. Useful lesson , thanks
Thank you very much! Glad that you find it useful on piano as well, like most things in Jazz, it is rarely tied to a single instrument.
Jars man, you have no idea how helpful your videos are! I have been noodling around and felt like I was stuck in a loop. I have been looking at different type of triad exercises and this one hits the spot.
Thank you so much!
Thank you! I am glad you found it useful! 👍
thankyou so much !!
You're welcome!
The best!
Thank you 🙂
Wow, there is about a year of woodshedding in a six-minute video. Thanks, Jens.
Haha! Yes, these take time 🙂
"...Combine them with scale runs and seventh chord arpeggios....".finally just sank in that I know both those things at last...in this one position, at least.
🎉thank you!!!
Glad you like it
thanks .. this will work ..
Go for it! 🙂
@@JensLarsen this is pretty hard if you never did it but i wont give up .. I need it because i wanna play live with one guitar and one voice .. So i need to spice up my playstyle
So much to practice and learn.
And its tough practicing. Need to spend time woth pen and paper and map them all out (as i dont have a good book that outlines them all)
Good thing i have a lifetime to practice
Very usefull information! Thx! And even without your demon-like-command i was going to practise. (Deugeniet 😉)
Great, go for it :)
thankyou
You are very welcome 🙂
As always, great content!
am I nuts or the 315 part (2:37s) the F arpeggio is transcribed 135? if so, it's a tiny detail.
I'm bringing your content dude. You rock.
Can proudly say that I know 80% of the techniques mentioned in the video!
Can you make a lesson on pick holding tips for economy and alternate picking?
I don't really have any experience with holding the pick in different ways, so that is a little difficult to do
I’ve only recently starting playing the guitar after playing the piano for some time. Triads seem like a logical place to start on the guitar in order to develop a solid base. Thanks for the awesome video!
Glad you find it useful!
I am only starting too, and I never learnt any instrument before. And no. Triads are not the right place to start with guitar. You start with chords and scales.
@@univuniveral9713 Triad means chord. 3 notes make a chord. The 1st degree, 3rd degree and 5th degree of a scale.(Major Chord)
@@davidkelley3800 That's not accurate. In guitar we deal with practicality, reality, not rather than use philosophy and a game of words to defend your stance. A tried is just a kind of chord, and any number of note greater than one is a chord. You are wrong. If you wanna learn guitar, be honest with yourself and learn scales and full chords. Then you can add so much stuff from there. There is a reason why there is a word "triad", and a word "chord".
@@univuniveral9713 I know its only a kind of chord hence why I said Major after referencing 3(Tri) scale degrees. And triads are the easiest chords, only 3(repeated) notes. Why would you teach someone foreign to guitar, 4 or 5 note chords? You wouldn't. Why would you teach a fresh student the melodic minor scale instead of the major scale? You wouldn't. I'm really not trying to argue but it sounds like you're splitting hairs. A triad is the simplest explanation of a major scale and chord. And in terms of learning guitar, I personally believe that rudiments and technique are more important than music theory.
I think a good way is to play triads of the key in one position for better visualisation, every shape belongs to caged system and to use triads when you play songs :)
That can certainly be useful :)
I’ve seen you comment on the Steve Morse analysis from Troy Grady! Small world!
Always interesting to learn something new :)
okay, SO , let me get ALL of this under my fingers....very insightful . thank you
Go for it :)
@@JensLarsen ,unfortunately, this may take a while it seems....haven't made it through 1 key(C) smoothly yet.....lol
@@donaldmccoy49 Going from key to key becomes easy after a few of them
@@JensLarsen, fully engaged...hand fatigue is starting...lol.. not my 'normal' routine...(zeppelin riffs, stones, ect.) But I can see how this is tremendously beneficial for tasty lines in ANY music choice..
This is a great lesson that expanded on what I knew about triads/spread triads. I would suggest that you make a lesson that expands on what you did here. This is a great exercise lesson, but how did you create music with this lesson? Maybe another lesson would just take the triad exercise, and then only show us how you developed the triads across/around the neck to make a usable riff or melody. Show us the entire 1-2 week process (in 5-10 minutes) by which you turned this exercise into music. Did you use a drum machine? a Looper pedal or something? Do you have backing tracks from somewhere? It doesn't seem like there are many lessons that show us how to practice scales/arpeggios to turn them from scales to music. Even what little is out there on jazz just seems to show, "here's the arpeggio", and then "here's the pretty melody". Or "here's how Pat Metheny soloed over "April Joy"". Thanks.
Sir, I adopted your lesson and I share to Indonesian people using Indonesia language with another methods. Maybe this wil be your charity.
I wish I understood how important triads are back when I played 15 years ago and my hands were more nimble. Better late than never I suppose..I'm just happy to be playing again
Playing is indeed more important than worrying about stuff that is in the past :)
Hi, Jens! Great job, guy! I only want you to know which model guitar are you playing in this video and in general!? Thanks a lot, have funnn!
Thank you 🙂 I am. Playing an Ibanez AS2630
@@JensLarsen, I haven't seen your model, but I've seen the AS93FM, and it looks pretty and seems to sound in a similar way, right? I.'ve got a Roland tube logic 435 amplifier and a Dv Mark little jazz, so I hope the whole thing works! Kind regards, bro.
I like your shirt.
Thank you
Any tips for practicing 1st inversion of triads? It's a bit perplexing for me to invert since there's like a 5th interval happening, like e-G-b, for example. I found that it gets easier if I practice fifths over the scale first though
Take a scale you know well and practice them through the scale, it is not that difficult 🙂
In the variations, I think the F triad might have slipped in as a 135 instead of a 315 in the notation. Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong.
Wouldn't be the first time I had a typo in the sheet music :)
If, you can feel each note, the way that fits for you, a simple start. I already think you are beyond me.
Jens, have you studied George Van Eps? I have his Guitar Method book. Haven't looked at it in years. Just curious if your concept varies much from that. Thanks
I have a bit, but that is not really what I am do working with here if I remember correctly :)
I was at a place once, carried history, scared me a little, till I actually walked in, was accepted, though, because I asked to be there, and explained why, hope your listeners have the courage. kinda tough about history,.
Some talk about leading and guiding tones
mike titlebaum has a great book and some videos on embellishments of single notes. i guess connecting triads with several solid embellishments patterns would be one good strategy for creating strong melodies. or would you disagree?
Melodies are often not created by a formula for the notes, so that will not by itself be a strong melody, but I am sure you can use them like that.
When I talk about triads being strong melodies it is more about the fact that you can use both the triad and the inversions quite easily in your lines
what is the difference between chiffrages and triads ?
What system you used for showing Guitar tabs on UA-cam for guitar lesson teacher
I use GuitarPro7, there is a link in the video description 🙂
@@JensLarsen ok thanks
I find the first exercise incredibly difficult, I can't seem to figure out rolling downwards with my pinky on the 10th fret without lifting all my other fingers off and crushing my pinky against all the other strings. Any tips?
That is difficult but also very useful to learn. I actually made a video on working on that, but it is on Patreon
Excellent lesson. But in the video's first half, aren't you playing arpeggios instead of triads?