EASY Triad Targets - SIMPLE Method to IMPROVE at Any Level

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[meinhendl]

always very helpful . great teaching .thank you, Mark!

[douglassmith]

Thanks for all the great informative lessons. I really find them helpful.

[scottkingsley]

What i like about this is, it gets the guitar off the low root note giving you an inversion over your bass player. This creates more sonic space especially versus the diatonic everybody overplays when they are learning rock songs. Pete Townshend uses a lot of these shapes in his rhythm playing with Ox going ham underneath.

[blayneb]

Nice method to move up and down the fretboard and as jumping points in and out of the different pentatonic scale positions! Always neat seeing how other players visualize the fretboard and move around. Learn something every time, thanks Mark!

[awittypilot]

Nice Mark as usual. Here's what is holding me back..besides my memory....hehe Sometimes my memory sux so bad I have to THINK guitar and I'm almost learning the song over again every time I play it. So my theory is to learn how to drive the car...not the path to the destination so to speak. IF you can learn how to drive "a" car you can take any car anywhere. I don't have time to practice like Eddie did (5 hours a day until he got it...and then he stayed on music and didn't have to stock shelves too) so I keep practicing what I can waiting for the AHA moment that will "put it all together" and I've been close a couple times and then there's always the monkey wrench. I am in a band but it's a struggle sometimes. What I HAVE learned is in the first pentatonic scale (minor) it will most of the time fit 90% of all rock music (my favorite) but in the same scale in country you'll usually find the MAJOR scale works better. So switch pointer finger for pinky and wala...you hit fewer bad notes. It helped me a lot to see Steve Stines really easy to figure out the pattern (1-4 1-4 1-3 1-3 1-3...ALWAYS repeats but learn the b string tune change) but my mind just doesn't seem to want to learn how to hear intervals. I'm close....praying for aha! Something to think about in your lessons. I'll bet I'm not alone on this....I actually have another job....music is fun but it only buys so much GOOD catfood! hehe Another major gripe...WHO decided to turn tabs upside down? WHY isn't the top string on the guitar the same as the top string on tabs? Strikes me as brain guy can't catch a idea why I was born pretty instead of smart...hehe

[yoyeo]

This is the best/easiest triad and note memory lesson I've seen. Well done!!

[hobodaddy]

Dude that Triad/CAGE trick is awesome. Once you recognize the root in the shape it's easy to riff.

[krisstieghorst]

Thanks for the short cuts Mark, I can't think of one lesson you've gave that wasn't really useful, always appreciated 💯🖤 Kris IL 🦋

[daviator]

Thanks from Canada ... Appreciated the insight.

[joshjames]

Found your videos and have learned so much since then. Thank you!

[tallpaul]

Great lesson Mark!!! Love triads and also love that melody

[sheistcoff]

‘To easily make lines like this”. Had trouble relating this end part of your video to music. Wish it could have been played over a backing track. The first lick you played seemed to simply play chord shapes G to A to C to D, etc using the E shape from CAGE? No I, IV V pattern. Overall I liked your simplification ideas. Cheerz!

[josephwalker]

Hi Mark, those triad patterns you ran at the end of the video were awesome, and can be useful in context. i.e.; scale and form.. By any chance, are those patterns tabbed somewhere please? Thank you..

[MrNgcovelli]

it works! Thanks Mark! BTW do you recommend Zager guitars. Noticed you were testing one recently. Thanks again!

[iannicholls]

Thanks Mark. This “getting all over the neck” idea is something I’m really keen to get better at. I like these easily digestible snippets you give us a lot.

[bryandoyle]

Do have a video where you breakdown playing lead lines? What were the 2 songs those lines were from?

[montymason]

Hey Mark, I've been meaning to get back to you on your inspired choice of John Fogerty for a tutorial, who, along with George Harrison, was underrated in the "big four" of rhythm-oriented lead guitarists (Keith Richards, Steve Cropper, George Harrison, John Fogerty). Harrison had the most jazz-inflected vocabulary of the three, whereas in retrospect, Fogerty, I think, was vastly underrated vis-à-vis Richards (no disrespect to Der Keef); Fogerty's guitar take on "Good Golly Miss Molly, " for example, not only holds up surprisingly well but is also seems ridiculously overlooked in retrospect.

THAT SAID, you give a really excellent primer, once again, this time on the use of triads–-which provides the key (um, no pun intended) to how motif/melody-oriented players ranging from Jeff Beck (Blow by Blow) to late-era George Harrison (1968-1970; All Things Must Pass, Imagine, etc.) used to such brilliant effect.

And you keep it swinging, too.

I always have a hard time teaching the swingtime, rhythm play when everybody just wants the to learn the flurry of notes and not the swing, groove, funk, whaevah we call it: the stuff that masters ranging from Robert Johnson to Charlie Christian, Chuck Berry to Wes Montgomery, and from George Benson to Joe Pass bequeathed along with the notes. It's Only Rock -n-Roll, indeed. Players like Alvin Lee, Beck, Harrison, Page (when not messing around) got it. You do too. Those Jump-Blues and the Alvin Lee tutorials you did, for instance, really breathed, thrummed, and DEMONSTRATED the importance of that time play, the "Now -THERE'S-the-guitarist" moment.

But hey, even the way your vids unfold themselves have a swingtime groove, even before you play a note. Like we said, "Now–THERE'S the guitarist!"

[soulstalgiarecords]

Wow, I am I correct to say that in this video you are using an Epiphone Les Paul (SL) model sir? I.e. now also called the Melody Maker... If so, (and as a great guitarist like yourself) what are your impressions on it in as far tone quality, playability pickup-volume, etc... (I have one and totally love mine - I am just not sure if the pickup volume is a little too soft when recording into my DAW).

[syedabdullah]

Thanks Mark.. i learned alot from u..btw how many guitar do u have?😃

[ranman]

Sounds like to me you are saying that in order to take full advantage of this key thing, one should be versed in the things mentioned before going on? I think it's wise cause I have a severe disability that affects my ability to remember certain thing's. It's not very fair but I deal with it and it took 30 years to memorize the board. Wow, that's a long time. Yes but I never gave up and had breif points of not playing. I'm now trying to learn those positions throughout the pentatonic scale and remember that certain key signatures were played throughout. What I need to know is the subtleties and nuances that comes from spending time with another musician that can teach as so many should share their knowledge. Nobody can play like SRV or Jimmy cause they were not him. Even Stevey knew that. If you taught free for like an hour or 2, I'd be interested. I'm intermediate to advanced and almost ready to totally grab a 1, 4, 5 and do a shuffle in the key of G. I want to transpose and do it efficiently without too much practice because my fingers are now old. Lol good 😂 posters you showed. I save them and study. Most of the people I know don't even know what I just said. My teachers so far are, Mandy from New York, Justin Johnson from Tennessee I believe, Some Stevey Ray and some Jimmy, Denangelico Reinhart, Albert King, Joe Pass and myself. I had 2 lessons from one person when I was 12. A Solin by Peter Paul and Mary. Quite hard he said but you did well. 😊