12 Ways To Play Any Major Or Minor Chord [Triad Tutorial]

In this video, you learn how to play triad chord shapes all over the fretboard of the guitar.

Triads are at the foundation of all chords on the guitar, and knowing how to play them in all positions will greatly enhance your guitar playing both in a rhythm and lead context.

In this lesson, you learn the major and minor triad chord shapes on all string sets of the guitar, giving you 12 positions for each.

You also learn how to train these triads into your fingers via three extremely effective strategies:

1. By Shape

This strategy has you using one triad shape for all the chords of a progression

2. By Position

This strategy has you using a mixture of triad shapes allowing you to remain in the same area of the fretboard when voicing out the chords of a progression

3. Vertically

This strategy has you working a variety of triad chord shapes up each string set within a single position of the fretboard

These strategies combine to ensure you get the triad shapes down for good, enabling you to easily access them in your own guitar playing.

[clgmafnas]

Excellent lesson and presentation. Ty sir 🙏🏽

[BackTheBike]

Another top drawer lesson Simon. Im a retired management consultant and you've got the right side of my brain buzzing.
More stuff on triads please, maybe the progression from your triad soloing?
Thank you.

[birajpoudyal]

This channel is just amazing. Its also so underrated and I have not found a single video that is easier to understand for triads than this one🎉

[ParthChauhanMusic]

Just what I needed, thank you so much :)

[smokeynewport]

Thank you for posting these triad lessons! They are very helpful and laid out in a way that makes them easy to understand and learn.

[CarlWinter-oyuf]

After 40 years I thought I knew triads ---know I have learnt so many more--thankyou

[stuartarnold]

These are really good lesson. Good tempo and hands on. Thank you Simon

[CarlWinter-oyuf]

So many inversions of C major & minor -triads --now I know how to find them ---thankyou !

[peted]

Great video. Clear and consise.Thank you. How about one on 7th's?

[eduardkornejev]

Great lesson, you open the whole music for me.One of the best theory channel!

[Wammus]

Thank you so much for these awesome lessons. As an adition i also relate all the triad shapes to the caged shapes they are actualy comming from. This helps me tying things together even more. Also i'm finaly learning all the notes on the fretboard and once i got that and this down i can pretty much play everything anywhere i want. Now all it takes is the effort and time i need to put in.

[davidhett]

A bit quick for me amigo but I’m giving her my best shot!

[thomasbrown]

again, excellent lesson. am I mistaken or are 2 of the shapes in the 123 and 234 string sets identical, except their minor in one, but major in the other. ? keeping track of all the memorization needed in this outstanding lesson, may be out of my reach, but great to have the tools and opportunity you've provided. thank you 😢

[CarlWinter-oyuf]

small error ----@ 12 : 27 you show the 8 th fret barre as F (on screen next to you )
but it sounds higher --like the 10th fret ?---F Major triad?

[MattBargain]

An easier way to explain this is to just take bar chords and just use the parts on the three strings you're playing. On the 12th fret it starts with cowboy chords again but you need to change the root, which is now an octave higher.

[thatfenderbloke]

Lol, ill never be able to stop saying rewind, great video