Triads for the Improvising Guitarist (book/Audio Online)

Publisher: Berklee Press
Format: Softcover Audio Online 
Author: Jane Miller
Series: Berklee Guitar


Learn how triads are key to understanding harmony, soloing, and comping. Triads are the basis of all harmony. By understanding how they relate to larger chord structures, you will improve your command over harmony generally and be able to use triads more effectively in all your playing.

Through visualizing and using the common triads on the first three strings, you will create smooth lines that make sense of the chords even when the song changes keys or modes.

Audio includes live guitar, bass, and drums performing rhythm tracks, guitar demonstration tracks, and play-along tracks based on common jazz progressions. Examples are in traditional notation and guitar chord diagrams.

You will learn to:
• Identify, organize, and use triads in your improvising: major, minor, diminished, and augmented
• Use inversions to improve transitions between chords, flowing from one to the next (i.e., voice leading)
• Develop your chord/muscle memory through the use of shapes, which will improve your intuitive mastery of the fingerboard
• Understand the relationship between triads, seventh chords, and tensions
• Improvise using triads as the basis for navigating chord changes
• Use triads as the basis of comping parts