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Triads Essentials is a free weekly guitar lesson series by New York pro and Sherpa Instructor Joe Pinnavaia covering the essentials of triads use, helping you break the typical scale pattern funk that so many of us get caught up in. Stay tuned for more and be sure to subscribe or check out Joe’s Sherpa classroom, the Fusion Funhouse!

Video Guitar Lesson

Chart & Tab

Most guitar players know what these triads are and how they function. The idea is to use them in a way that can break the typical scale pattern funk that so many of us get caught up in. What make triads such a great musical tool is that they speak directly to the harmony and can also extend the harmony and create a different vocabulary to draw from.

In this lesson I briefly introduce them and share the shapes as well as how to use them over a basic ii, V7 progression. Practicing the shapes and doing them through the cycle of 4ths and 5ths will open up a new world of possibilities. Learning the triads all over the fretboard is a great way to increase your fretboard knowledge as well.

For the next lessons I will get into some other ways to use these shapes to create more melodic and interesting lines.

Triads Essentials is a free weekly guitar lesson series by New York pro and Sherpa Instructor Joe Pinnavaia covering the essentials of triads use, helping you break the typical scale pattern funk that so many of us get caught up in. Stay tuned for more and be sure to subscribe or check out Joe’s Sherpa classroom, the Fusion Funhouse!