Here’s another video where I play an improvised arrangement of “Body and Soul” using this approach (for the most part anyway.) Here’s the recording of my playing this from the video: When using them as chords I play them 90% of the time on the two top sets, but since triads are such a basic resource that you need for soloing as well as chords I’ve chosen to demonstrate all three types of triads that are found in the major scale on all string sets: The basic exercise you need for this is to learn the triads in inversions on every set of three strings. The advantage to this approach it is an easy way to play rootless chords and fever notes makes it more flexible for adding notes and making melodies within the chords. The idea behind this is that you use a triad as the extension part of a chord to have a strong sounding voicing or melody, but that’s a little more complicated theoretically and for another lesson. There’s another concept that is closely related to this which is called upper-structure triads. So if you know how a chord is constructed it is easy to figure out what triad you can use to play that chord. ![]() ![]() Using this concept we have these triads to play in C major: So if you want to play the chord but not the root, you can use the triad from the 3rd. So if we take the Cmaj7: We get these notes: C E G B so that’s a C and an E minor triad, and we can use it like that when we are comping or soloing.
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