Jazz Blues - You Need To Know Triads!

If you had any doubt, why Triads are amazing in your solos then you just check out this video and see how strong melodies you can create and how many options you have when you solo on a jazz blues. Trust me, you will never regret practicing diatonic triads and inversions.

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Content:
00:00 Intro
00:15 Triads - From Mozart To Metallica
00:40 The Solo - Triads only
01:04 F7 and Bb7 - The Magic of Diatonic Triads
02:39 Thoughts on Practicing Triads
03:40 Altered Dominant Triads
05:36 The Altered Shortcut
06:31 Diminished Chords and Some Great Triad Options
07:16 Minor II V I trick
08:09 Dominant With The Diminished Scale
09:08 Playing Great Jazz Blues Solos
09:15 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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[JensLarsen]

Share your favourite "triad trick"!

[dansymmons]

A video on triad exercises would be very welcome, Jens!

[SirWilliamTambourine]

YES Jens, extremely interested in triad/arpeggio exercises! Need to build muscle memory! Thanks!

[colingardiner]

Thanks for the lesson Jens. A lesson on building my triad muscles would be great.

[MadisOrr]

"Practice with Jens" - new favorite practice series! So awesome!

[andrewluck]

Another "yes, please" vote for a video on triad excercises. Thanks for everything.

[davidballe]

Hi Jens, From one great Dane to another, yes, I think a video on triad exercises and how to implement them into your playing is a fantastic idea. Thank you for being the best jazz guitar channel on youtube!

[stuartarnold]

Triads are certainly worth all the time one can spend useing and learning them, thanks Jens.

[Dang...]

Clear, thorough, practical. Thank you Jens!

[kilterkaos]

I put this one on pause, I gotta run to the store. When I get back I’m getting on it! I pretty much know my triads, this will be interesting to see how melodies are formed using them. I have a little understanding of it but I can see this will help. I usually comment while I’m watching a video and that’s the reason I’m typing this.

[kevgrindley]

Same here: Jens. I'd be interested in more videos on triads/arpeggios. Thanks

[havardhausberg]

Please make a video about triad exirces

[dctokyo]

Great lesson! Just recently I have started to wrap my head around triads and can't think of anything more important to playing the guitar. Really important you SEE and KNOW where you are as you go thru all the different triads for a particular key. Thank you Jens!

[davidedalfarra]

Yes, definitely interested in an inverted triad video!

[johnware]

I'd love to see and share a video on triad exercises!

[kaseystrange]

that triads exercise video sounds like a great idea!

[secretpolice]

Would defiantly appreciate triad practice techniques! Your practice routines are really useful and could for sure use more of them!

[高中畢業林大為]

adding 2nd note to those minor triads in altered dominated works really well, too

[nicholassalomone]

Very interested in those triad videos you mentioned! Would love to see that

[Djangoat]

Great topic. For triads on dominants, the 2 steps of thinking about the relative major scale then the triads that work from that are useful to understand the theory...but no one has time to do that in the middle of a solo - one way I simplify is to to just remember which triad fits which degree of the dominant chord you're on (play a major triad from the root, dim on the 3rd, min on 5th, Maj on 7th ..and for good measure min on the 6th )...next step is of course to internalise and forget everything as Miles said ;-)