Music Theory for Guitar | 05: Major Triads | Practice No. 2
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Hi Everyone!
This exercise is a free for all! This lesson gives a few ideas for how you might come up with your own sequence of A Major, D Major and E Major Triads. Remember, the goal here is not to make a masterpiece or even a finished painting. Think of this like a musical sketch book. Sit down with the supplied scratch paper and plot out your own sequences. Keep them simple. It’s probably a better goal to spend an hour trying out three easy sequences than to spend a day working on one difficult sequence.
Download the attached cheat sheet showing all possible roots, thirds, and fifths for each Major Triad and the note name scratch paper.
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Use these practice tracks:
Enjoy your practice time and remember to have fun! If you're feeling accomplished, frustrated, stuck, or just want to talk about these exercises, feel free to post on the community forum post for this lesson.
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This lesson is part of my Music Theory For Guitar series.
Comments
is there audio file for the jam track I can download for recording?
Vinh Tran
2025-06-08 13:01:47 +0000 UTCEnjoying messing around with the triads. The A chords are fun because you can play it open in so many places. Really opening my eyes to how everything fits together
Tyson Keffer
2023-12-30 18:47:55 +0000 UTCHey Scott, I am finding this series super useful. I was wondering If you have, or could post, the triad "cheat sheet" for the other scales, not just ADE? I
Nicholas Bivona
2023-12-12 02:14:41 +0000 UTCAWESOME! Keep moving through the lessons and you'll get to be more creative!
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-09-19 20:42:43 +0000 UTCIt is wild to me that I was able to play something that I came up with. I derived the notes to use with knowledge from the previous lesson, located them on the fretboard and played it. I'm no longer just mimicking songs. I'm creating music. Not fancy music, but it's still MY music. It's very satisfying to learn something that you "produced" yourself.
Mark van Beekum
2023-09-19 18:25:27 +0000 UTCOk, im finding this to be a GREAT way to get familiar with and memorize where the notes are on the fretboard!
Wayne Swan
2023-07-25 04:11:06 +0000 UTCHa! Cool! This is great. I love the big orange and yellow set, too!
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-07-05 15:14:51 +0000 UTCI don't know how many Italians there are among your students, but the practice track is identical to "Gianna", a very popular song from 1978 by a non-conformist Italian singer-songwriter: Rino Gaetano. https://youtu.be/xq15uX6abXs (The one at 110 BPM can almost be played along with the performance - the live it's a tiny bit faster though). Thank you for everything Scott.
Cosimo Nigro
2021-07-04 11:05:03 +0000 UTC
