Guitar triads made easy using CAGED | Pickup Music

Join the remarkable Dr. Molly Miller as she explains the magic of triads within the CAGED system. This 10-minute lesson is jam-packed with useful information for any guitarist who wants to master the fretboard.

In this lesson, you'll learn some fundamental triad shapes, their inversions, and how they seamlessly connect across the neck. Perfect for guitarists at any level, these exercises are designed to improve your basic music theory, enhance your fretboard visualization, and hopefully inspire some new ideas.

By the end of this tutorial, you'll know a little more about the importance of triads and how to understand how they connect to scales.

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Chapter:
00:29 Why learn triads?
01:30 Exercise 1
03:37 Exercise 2
05:35 Exercise 3

[SM-qlty]

I've watched a ton of YouTube content for guitar. Your teaching style is very clear and easy to follow. You've gained a subscriber, keep up the great content

[ATAsgard]

Best CAGED and triad lesson I've ever seen.

[vvgmhod]

Excellent perspective, looking down on the fretboard. I wish more YouTube instructors would do this.

[TheBlackStrat]

Great visuals on the connections. All this stuff should be taught together. Triads. Arpeggios. Match it to the appropriate major/minor scales and it’s just magic. Literally all right there. Take my like AND subscribed. Well done. Thank you.

[ricardoturner]

Thank you Dr. Molly. This is the simplest I've heard triads explained.

[prestonwilliams]

You are my favorite teacher. Thanks for the helpful knowledge!

[CFChristian]

Dang I'm glad to have stumbled on this.

[trusarmor]

i watched your hour long CAGED video like 10 x.
great job, and thank you

[manguitarletsgo]

Brilliant! _"See the shapes."_ For those of us who don't read music (well me, certainly), shapes on the fretboard is how we work. Anyone learning guitar, who thinks that reading music or tab is essential, should watch this video. You need only read the fretboard.

[rickington]

Love your videos. Great teaching style. Thanks for sharing.

[FreeMissions]

This is awesome. I learned the caged system a long time ago but no one ever really showed me how it's useful. Please do a video three!

[dharris]

Fantastic lesson! Would you be able to do a caged triad lesson using the minor triads? Also, do you use the C shape very often?

[franck]

Hello Molly, you show us a diagram of the fret with tiad and CAGED form, what is the name of the software you use to create these diagram ? Thanks a lot

[wilsonchen]

So far the easy and clearest demonstration

[basslover]

You are a fantastic teacher. I just subscribed to your channel.👏👏👏👏

[MichaelWallace-oi]

Here's my problem. I cut my left index finger off in an accident last year. So the bar chords are, well, not working. Can you create an example with triads? I've gotten good at using them, but I'm still trying to connect them.

[luisky]

Thanks for the sharing ma'am!👍💓💓💓💓

[kanjinha]

Hi, can some😢confirm that there’s adoption to flip the board to a lefty? On their website I mean. Thanks

[jjyy]

Hi，May l ask what is the model of the guiter?thank you so much!

[jjyy]

Hi，would you please tell me the model of the guiter?it’s so beautiful !