From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts.
Major triads up the neck
From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate
Major triads up the neck
- Alright, so now let's move on to understanding triads a little bit better, and let's see how they move up the neck vertically. So first, let's start with major triads, and I want to just explain to you how a major triad is created, first of all. If you look at C, a C-Major triad goes C-E-G. And that is really four half-steps plus three half-steps that creates that chord. We're going to really think about it being as 1-3-5. So if you're thinking about a scale, a C-D-E-F-G, you're playing the first note, third note, and fifth note, 1-3-5. Let's look at it now in A, on the thinnest three strings. That's root, third, fifth. If we want to play it higher up on the neck, instead of spelling it root-third-fifth, we can put the third on the bottom. That's third-fifth-root. This is what's known as first inversion. Okay, and then the next shape up, would be the fifth, the root, the third. That's known as second inversion. After that it starts over with the root position an octave higher. So…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.