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Expand Your Harmonic and Fretboard Knowledge by Utilizing Spread Voicing Triads

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Triads are pretty much a guitarist’s best friend. We start out learning to play open chords on the guitar, built from triads, and if we expand our playing into the classical, jazz or improvised music realm, these three-note chords expand to take on a whole new meaning and level of significance in our playing. While [...]

Upper Structure Triad Soloing

Monday, June 21, 2010

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Triads are cool. Without them, Bach probably would have been a hay baler or something to that effect. Without triads, I would probably be writing about air guitar or something mundane like the proper way to stuff your spandex before playing that 80′s high school reunion you got tapped to do. A triad, as you [...]

Music Theory Lesson: Chord Inversions

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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In this lesson I would like to talk about chord inversions. Chord inversions will make your music come alive in ways that playing “straight” chord voicings won’t allow.

Music Theory Lesson: Chord Structures

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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I hope that you’re finding this music theory information informative, and certainly I hope that I’m explaining things in an easy-to-understand way while still providing detail. As always, if you have comments, questions, or suggestions please let me know. In this lesson we’ll start taking a look at chord structures.