The Best Triad Exercises - How To Get The Essentials Right

Triads are an essential part of all music, not just Jazz, but you want to study them in the most efficient way. This video covers 5 triad exercises that help you not only learn triads but also improve your fretboard knowledge.

Putting Triads To Use as Arpeggios and Jazz Chords

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Content:
00:00 Intro
00:27 #1 Diatonic Triads - Most Important Triad Exercise
01:22 Creating Triad Inversions
02:41 Technique For Diatonic Triads
03:09 #2 Diatonic Triads Along The Neck
03:47 A Fantastic Alternate Picking Exercise
04:17 #3 Inversions Along The Neck
04:51 #4 Turning Inversions into Vertical Triads
05:31 #5 Repeating Cell-Shapes
06:01 Triads as Upper-structure arpeggios and Jazz Chords
06:09 Like the video? Check out my Patreon page!

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My name is Jens Larsen, Danish Jazz Guitarist, and Educator. The videos on this channel will help you explore and enjoy Jazz. Some of it is how to play jazz guitar, but other videos are more on Music Theory like Jazz Chords or advice on how to practice and learn Jazz, on guitar or any other instrument.

The videos are mostly jazz guitar lessons, but also music theory, analysis of songs and videos on jazz guitars.

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[mariedega]

I confess I watch you often just because hearing you speak relaxes me and because when you explain it always sounds feasible, possible and I have always liked what I call your quiet enthusiasm so thanks Jens :-))

[danielfort]

I'm just working on triads, this release was timed perfectly. Thanks😁

[thatlovejones]

Not only great info, but a nice morning laugh, great video!

[mesbla]

This is, hands down, THE VERY BEST EXCERCISES SET on Triads all over Youtube!!
Hartelijk Dank Mr. Larsen!
Amazing.

[lizardking]

As a begginer, this is the most useful lesson I've had... Thanks very much and greetings from Croatia ❤️❤️❤️

[mpinnymusic]

Excellent teaching here - complex musicality made easily understandable. Thank you!

[cfibanez]

Thanks a lot. That was quite some information packed in just over 6 minutes! I counted 11 triads in your first exercise. Add the inversions and we get 33 triads to memorize and practice. We then add the 315 and 513 pattens and we get close to 100 triads. Along the neck and in the other string sets, we get another 100 triads, at least. And this is only for Cmaj. Then you have all the other major keys, and then the harmonic and melodic minor. That's a few thousand triads to memorize and practice.... Glad the next video is not until next week. 😉

[bradhurlburt]

I'm so psyched you gave a shout out to Molly! She is incredible! So are you, Jens.

[MrFunkysounds]

Hello Jens, everyday i watch one or two of your videos and get around 50% of what you are teaching. But this 50% are what makes me feel I can get the Jazz sound and learn more about what I want to play. Its Jazz.. ha! Thank you for your work. Jonas

[isaacjohnson.]

only at 0:53 sec in and already a very valuable lesson and practice exercise for me. Thank Jens! Such a great teacher.

[frankvaleron]

Triads can unlock the upper extensions in a very melodic way too. You can hear that all over Bill Evans playing. Thanks as always Jens

[blainelilly]

Wow, this is a great lesson, a LOT of information packed into a few minutes. And thanks so much for giving wonderful Molly Tuttle a shout out! It's always great to see jazz musicians who appreciate the bluegrass folks!

[aylbdrmadison]

Thank you for the lesson Jens. I'm a neo-classical metal guitarist who's always had an interest in Jazz since being exposed to so many great fusion musicians as a kid in the 80's. I still can't play jazz very well at all, but it's certainly always made what I do a lot more interesting, at least imo.
Learn jazz, play music.

[cjgreen]

right before this video dropped, I was encouraged by George Benson's There Will Never Be Another You solo to practice chord soloing, and then this video dropped. Jens is so iconic. Glad the maj triad shapes and its inversions were in the video, saves people time.

[starwolf]

Amazing lesson. I've fallen in love with guitar again through your approach to teaching. I stopped learning but never playing. These compact lessons help me not feel so lost!

[Pino]

Great foundation and perfect way to navigate the fretboard when creating lines spanning more than one position :)

[jdiesel]

Great lesson! I have never quite mastered my triads and this will make a huge difference thank you

[stickysat]

Thank you so much for your kindness, your teaching skills and this gem ! :)

[levnik]

thx for these videos jens! u are an excelent teacher ive seen the difference between your early videos and current ones and its very notorious u have grown so much! congratz

[mikegonzales]

Hello professor Larson,
I'm going through your book entitled
"Modern Jazz Guitar Concepts"
and I absolutely love the way you present Concepts and show various exercises that show how to make use of them. It's one thing to be a great musician but your teaching
abilities are truly admirable ..
Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge about music, your a very generous person.
Bless you Jens.
Michael Gonzales