HOW THE PROS USE TRIADS (5 things everyone should know!)

Summary by Krater

A guitar instructor demonstrates five creative ways to use triads to decorate and spice up chord progressions, including the Sesame Street trick, the Triad King chord inversions, embellished arpeggios, pedal notes, and sweep picking.

From the video

Answers: How can I use triads creatively to embellish guitar chord progressions?

• Guitar triads
• Triad inversions
• The CAGED system
• Chord embellishments
• Pedal notes on guitar
• Sweep picking arpeggios

What it concludes

• Decorating major chords with other triads creates an awesome rock or blues rhythm guitar part.
• Knowing all triads and their inversions on the neck allows you to play every chord progression in many different positions and opens up the fretboard.
• Using a simple triad as a pedal note through an entire chord progression is a lovely way to decorate progressions while keeping chords linked together.
• Sweep picking with triads is an easy way to get a classic guitar sound by using just three strings and a little sweeping magic.