10 Good Reasons Why You Want To Master Triads.

All too often music students think off triads (3 note chords) as being too basic. They want to rush to “the cool stuff”, those fancy 7^th chords. Well folks: “triads” ARE the cool stuff!

They are the basic foundation of our harmony. After all, the definition of a chord is: 3 different notes played simultaneously. Here’s 10 examples showing that “basic” in this case does not mean “boring”.

Triads are important chords to know about. You should be able to effortlessly find any inversion of any triad on any string-set. Here’s 10 reasons for you to want to practice them.

1)     Jump (Van Halen, the keyboard part)

2)     Fool in The Rain (Led Zeppelin)

3)     Reggae

4)     Back in Black (ACDC)

5)     The intro to Free Ride (Edgar Winter)

6)     “We Are Family”, “Get up (Like a sex machine)”, and other funky songs.

7)     Soul Man (Sam and Dave), and other soul music classics.

8)     The melody of The Star-Spangled Banner

9)     Fret board mastery

10)  Coming up with more melodic improvised lines.