Publisher's Synopsis
The third book in this series provides a detailed study of spread triads, inversions and arpeggios. It focuses on the Major, Minor, Augmented and Diminished triads.
You'll better appreciate what is possible by looking at triads from multiple perspectives. As you learn the triads in different shapes, your muscle memory will begin to take over, and you can combine the shapes in various groupings to achieve different effects. The more ways you can play a triad, the more ways you can express yourself. Many of the diagrams in this book are similar: it is only four chords! This book explores the relationships between the arpeggios and inversions in different contexts. Each page shows a particular relationship between the chord tones and a shape on the fingerboard. You can open the book to any page to work on it or work from beginning to end. Sections: About this BookAbout Triad
Practice Goals and Suggestions - Basic Shapes This book shows four different ways to play each Triad. For each: - Major
- Minor
- Augmented - Diminished This book goes through:
- Root position, starting from the root
- First inversion, starting from the third,
- Second inversion, starting from the fifth
There are four variations for each inversion:
- 1 & 3 & 5 on adjacent strings
- 1 & 3-5 on adjacent strings
- 1-3 & 5 on adjacent strings
- 1-3-5 on the same string
3 About This Book
4 Why Use Fourths Tuning?
5 What Are Triads?
6 Why Study Triads?
7 Practice Goals and Suggestions
12 Root Position and Inversions
13 Major Triad
14 Minor Triad
15 Diminished Triad
16 Augmented Triad
17 Spread Triad Chords
18 Major Triad
19 Minor Triad
20 Diminished Triad
21 Augmented Triad
22 Major Triad First Inversion
23 Minor Triad First Inversion
24 Diminished Triad First Inversion
25 Augmented Triad First Inversion
26 Major Triad Second Inversion
27 Minor Triad Second Inversion
28 Diminished Triad Second Inversion
29 Augmented Triad Second Inversion
30 Spread Triads and Inversions
34 Close Position 1-3-5
35 One Octave Position 1-3-5+
36 One Octave Position 1-3+-5+
37 One Octave Position 1-5-3+
38 One Octave Position 1-5-3+ Version 2
39 Two Octave Position 1-5+-3++
40 Version 2
41 Diatonic Triads
44 3 Strings Root Position
45 3 Strings First Inversion
46 3 Strings Second Inversion
47 Diatonic Triads Played Horizontally
58 24 Fret Shapes Triad Reference About the Series: Triad Studies for Perfect Fourths Guitar Tuning: Three Volumes Volume One: The Basics The Basics introduces triads and how to create them, including inversions and arpeggios. Volume Two: Inversions and Arpeggios A detailed study of Inversions and Arpeggios of Major, Minor, Diminished and Augmented triads: over 150 pages and hundreds of diagrams! Volume Three: Spread Triads, Inversions and Diatonic Triads This moves into the beautiful and versatile sounds of spread Major, Minor, Diminished and Augmented triads. The books share about 15 pages of introductory material so that you can start from any volume. If you are new to triads, you should start with Volume One. If you are more interested in single-line soloing, choose Volume Two. If you are interested in comping or solo guitar, choose Volume Three.
