How Triads TRULY Unlock The Fretboard (Ft. Ariel Posen)

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Hi, my name is Paul Davids! I am a guitar player, teacher, producer, and overall music enthusiast from the Netherlands! I try to inspire people from all over the world with my videos, here on YouTube.

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[ArielPosen]

Thanks for having me Paul! Fun fact, Paul made the most delicious bread that I’ve ever tasted.

[michaelbowyer]

We are very fortunate to live in the era when two musicians of this caliber are giving away such a great lesson and doing it with such joy and enthusiasm. Awesome stuff.

[k]

The more I listened to Posen, the clearer it became that what makes his playing so engaging is his use of dynamics. He's constantly emphasizing some strings over others, always moving to different dynamics. It's his version of breathing. The "in" breath is louder, then he let's it out gently. It's very much like he's intimately singing to you...on the guitar.

[enelson]

I wish I'd been taught guitar with triads from the beginning. For learning the guitar neck, thinking about chord tones in solos, and harmony in general, triads really are the foundation. I wasted so many years focused on scales. Once I started focusing on triads everything opened up and made so much more sense.

[markchip]

Ariel's dynamics gave his playing SO MUCH more soul!!

[Stringtrees]

Arial has become one of my all time favourite guitarists over the last few years. Great songs, beautiful voice. Thanks Paul, this was a gem of an episode.

[createlovehappy]

Ariel Posen plays the most beautiful guitar music I have ever heard, actually beyond that... Some of the most beautiful sounds my ears have ever had the pleasure of experiencing. I lost some of my hearing in my right ear suddenly in 2008 and though it was over for me. I gave up my dreams of being a producer after years of working in that direction because I no longer had the best ears in the room. But years later and with lots of ear training, I can hear pitch correctly again. Those higher frequencies I lost are still gone but the human body is full of adaptability. Then in 2020 I got stage 4 cancer and thought my time was up. I'm still here and inspired to try guitar again for as long as I can and share it with my kids. I don't even have an electric guitar. So, I have been drawing fretboards, plotting out numbers and notes and their relationships, finding triads, and trying to teach my kids the major scale by singing it in numbers instead of syllables. I'm sub'd to both your channels and thank you both for getting me through these rough times. Music is healing 100%.

[Matt-d]

I’m in the process of really learning the notes on the fretboard, the circle of fifths, and the notes in major and minor triads. I feel like I want to watch this video every six months to see if it makes more and more sense each time.

[robshaffer]

Ariel's courses on TrueFire are all about targeting notes using Triads. Hands down some of the best teaching material I've come across in my 40 years of playing.

[stephen]

Love this, he really emphasizes understanding the foundation and “essence” of a progression before coloring in the bigger picture.

[StringJourney]

I had the exact same reaction as Paul 13:34 after Ariels improvisation. When you are so confident in the fretboard that you can just create the melodies you hear in your mind is a fantastic achievment i hope to get one day.

[scottkidwellmusic]

Ariel is quite possibly one of the kindest and most knowledgeable guitarists I have had the pleasure of meeting. I saw him at a clinic in Portland last spring, and he was so willing to share his knowledge and perspective, it was exciting and mesmerizing. I was drawn in and couldn't think of any questions to ask... just ended up enjoying the whole experience.

Thank you, Paul, for getting Ariel into your studio and sharing more of this information.

Be good to you 🤍💛

[DobDog]

Ariel and Paul. The collaboration album I didn’t know I wanted to hear until now. So great.

[bryceoconnor]

I LOVE ariel's playing. This lesson is amazing. I've always wondered how I could make my guitar sound more like my wife's piano playing, and this is starting to open up that door a little bit.

[jonathanbryant]

This is what I love about your channel: you’re talking in the language I learned as a Jazz major in Music school as a non-guitarist. Not “frets” and “shapes” and “strings”, but I-ii-VII-IV, inversions, and all those things you learn in first semester theory and show how to adapt that knowledge to this specific instrument. Plus all the stuff about building melodies around the thirds, voice leading using guide tones, and dynamics.

Discussion of guitar this way —truly in terms of music— is so much more familiar and useful than people just talking about frets, fingers, and positions.

[joshallensarm]

I would just like to add that after practicing the triads for sometime, it's very useful to put them together as full arpeggios. Instead of doing each inversion and switching strings for example, use your 1-3-5 shape and do the full arpeggio (horizontal, but also vertical), and you will really start to see the chords and individual notes come together on the fret board.

When you do the 3-5-1 inversion starting on the G string for example, you will notice that you're just playing the top 3 notes of the 6th string barre chord. 1-3-5 starting on the G string will give you the top 3 notes of the 5th string barre. 5-1-3 top 3 notes of the "usual" 4th string chord shape, the D shape. 1-3-5 starting from the D string is the middle part of that 6th string barre, etc. When you practice the arpeggios horizontally with this in mind chords starts to spell themselves out, and when you play arpeggios vertically you reinforce your knowledge of how these all fit together over the fretboard.

[Scratch_Monsters_Golf]

Gotta give Paul credit…even though this is pretty basic information, he sells it like it’s the first time he’s heard about it. I assume in an effort to make beginners feel comfortable…what a guy ❤

[abeldaniel]

Paul, I like the way you host your guests. Humble, listening, appreciating.

[kagenotatsumaki]

You can also make the "not fun" exercise kind of fun by drilling the triads into your head to a drum track you like, not only will you be cementing the shapes but you might also come up with something cool with them at the same time which might actually help them stick faster.

[adityasastry]

It’s so nice to see 2 musicians so amazing at their craft but are so respectful of each other, and so excited to learn something nee