I'm trying to find the video that teaches triads.
Foundation & Technique I contains most of the beginner triad lessons. Work through the one on C Major Triads to start and see if that is what you're looking for. I found it pretty quickly browsing the beginner and foundation sections. Even browsing takes practice!
The "how to use" the website video should include the search tool. If you simply type "triads" into the search you'll get a lot of results, but the beginner stuff is mixed into the middle of a bunch of advanced topics. The website designer may wish to provide a way to tag content so they can add a "filter results" or an "order by level" option.
But one of the dangers of jumping around to "hot" topics that you are most interested in is that you can overlook some fundamentals resulting in an incomplete knowledge if you skip something.
I like to take the lessons in order and use the "view all" and "expand all" to see all the contents of the section. This way, if there is something that I think I am already familiar with, I can watch it to review and feel confident I know it before going to the next new lesson in unfamiliar territory.
John D Barker
Ok so I've been playing a little over a year, just joined here a few weeks ago. I've been going through the beginner series, to make sure I'm not overlooking anything I might not have already learned. But I was kind of looking for some direction. I wanna know how it all connects etc. I just heard him mention in a video triads like "for those of you who've already looked here" I can't remember exactly what he said but I figured I would go ahead and learn what a triad was. Anyway I was just wondering what's the best way to go about it all?
Start w major scale dude, Tomo teaches scale degrees, so learn C Major first, C D E F G A B C. Play it on the 2nd string. You must know about steps on the fretboard, as well.
Also I use guitar tuna on my android, awesome tool for not just tuning but also chord voicings, I used that a from the beginning to learn chord shapes, now all these years later, Tomo is teaching me what it all means and how it all connects, lol. You'll get there bro. You came to the right place.
I downloaded that a while back just to tune. ha I'll definitely check it out thanks.
Awesome I didn't know if it was maybe too advanced for me. There is just so much it feels like kind of overwhelming, Is it normal for most of this to still be pretty confusing to me?
I think with self study or guided study such as this, you'll find a lot of "chicken or the egg" loops. Can you talk about triads before understanding the scale from which they're constructed? Yet to go through all the scale lessons before diving deep into triads is a lot of work. But it is necessary work in the long run.
I agree that some of the "connections" are hard to make because the path isn't a line. And again, maybe some metadata applied by the web-master to the video content can facilitate some sort of dynamic structure based on what you're searching for at any given time.
But, that's a long way to say no, there isn't a topic that says here's everything you need to know about triads A-Z and here's the best way to get there. You probably need FT09 (006) C Major Triads to start with and if any of that content does not make sense, go back and review all the scale and interval topics that you need in order for it to make sense.
If I deconstruct my own learning over the last 50 years, the sequence that I'd use now is: intervals >scales >intervals again > triads > 7th chords > progressions. But the random way I did it took me a billion years before I could strum a I V VI IV in time and I still can't play all 3 inversions for each of those triads at will. I was always comparing and always expecting too fast.
Kurt Schubert
John D Barker
Here is Tomo's comment:
"Thanks so much for subscribing to my Guitar Wisdom. If you use the SEARCH feature on this site, you will find several lessons on triads. We will publish updated triads lessons in the near future."
Hi George -- Sending thanks to Tomo and team for the new triad lessons. They are really great (as were the previous lessons as well!). I just went through the videos and they've helped me connect some dots and reinforce knowledge from other lessons. Thank you!!
Kurt Schubert
George Mattingly
I’ve been playing off and on for years. I learned the “traditional way” by learning shapes and patterns. My play and knowledge have improved from taking Tomo’s approach to scales and triads.
George Mattingly