12 Ways To Play Any Major Or Minor Chord [Triad Tutorial]

In this video, you learn how to play triad chord shapes all over the fretboard of the guitar.
Triads are at the foundation of all chords on the guitar, and knowing how to play them in all positions will greatly enhance your guitar playing both in a rhythm and lead context.
In this lesson, you learn the major and minor triad chord shapes on all string sets of the guitar, giving you 12 positions for each.
You also learn how to train these triads into your fingers via three extremely effective strategies:
1. By Shape
This strategy has you using one triad shape for all the chords of a progression
2. By Position
This strategy has you using a mixture of triad shapes allowing you to remain in the same area of the fretboard when voicing out the chords of a progression
3. Vertically
This strategy has you working a variety of triad chord shapes up each string set within a single position of the fretboard
These strategies combine to ensure you get the triad shapes down for good, enabling you to easily access them in your own guitar playing.
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[@acousticguitarlessons]

Tablature for examples presented in this lesson can be found here: acousticguitarlessonsonline.net/triad-chord-shapes

[@Back2TheBike]

Another top drawer lesson Simon. Im a retired management consultant and you've got the right side of my brain buzzing. More stuff on triads please, maybe the progression from your triad soloing? Thank you.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@Back2TheBike, you are very welcome! Glad you like the video. Here are more triad videos I have on the channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/on-pp2CmpNmrjNk kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpnElJV5a7igfdU kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJ-XhZyGn5pkhJo

[@Back2TheBike]

@@acousticguitarlessons thanks Simon.

[@birajpoudyal6726]

This channel is just amazing. Its also so underrated and I have not found a single video that is easier to understand for triads than this one🎉

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@birajpoudyal6726, thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it! Very happy that you find the lessons useful and that this one has helped your understanding of triads :)

[@CarlWinter-oy8uf]

After 40 years I thought I knew triads ---know I have learnt so many more--thankyou

[@acousticguitarlessons]

You are soo welcome! :)

[@clgmafnas]

Excellent lesson and presentation. Ty sir 🙏🏽

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@clgmafnas, you are very welcome! :)

[@CarlWinter-oy8uf]

So many inversions of C major & minor -triads --now I know how to find them ---thankyou !

[@acousticguitarlessons]

You re so welcome Carl! :)

[@dougtwigg3285]

Thankyou Simon wonderful lesson .

[@acousticguitarlessons]

You are very welcome Doug. Glad you liked the lesson. Let me know how you get on with it :)

[@ParthChauhanMusic]

Just what I needed, thank you so much :)

[@acousticguitarlessons]

You are so welcome! :)

[@juliodefreitas157]

Absolutely awesome ❤️

[@acousticguitarlessons]

Glad you like the lesson :)

[@smokeynewport1591]

Thank you for posting these triad lessons! They are very helpful and laid out in a way that makes them easy to understand and learn.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

You are very welcome @smokeynewport1591 :)

[@thatfenderbloke]

Lol, ill never be able to stop saying rewind , great video

[@acousticguitarlessons]

Glad you liked the video! :) Rewind?

[@Wammus85]

Thank you so much for these awesome lessons. As an adition i also relate all the triad shapes to the caged shapes they are actualy comming from. This helps me tying things together even more. Also i'm finaly learning all the notes on the fretboard and once i got that and this down i can pretty much play everything anywhere i want. Now all it takes is the effort and time i need to put in.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@Wammus85 you are very welcome! Glad you are finding the triad lessons helpful :)

[@stuartarnold4495]

These are really good lesson. Good tempo and hands on. Thank you Simon

[@acousticguitarlessons]

You are very welcome Stuart! :)

[@davidhett8883]

A bit quick for me amigo but I’m giving her my best shot!

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@davidhett8883, keep at it, you'll get there. There is lots of info in this video, so take your time and let me know how you go :)

[@eduardkornejev7910]

Great lesson, you open the whole music for me.One of the best theory channel!

[@acousticguitarlessons]

That’s great to hear Eduard! Let me know how you get on with the chords :)

[@peted6812]

Great video. Clear and consise.Thank you. How about one on 7th's?

[@acousticguitarlessons]

You are very welcome Pete! Great suggestion about one on 7ths. I'll see what I can do :)

[@thomasbrown8598]

again, excellent lesson. am I mistaken or are 2 of the shapes in the 123 and 234 string sets identical, except their minor in one, but major in the other. ? keeping track of all the memorization needed in this outstanding lesson, may be out of my reach, but great to have the tools and opportunity you've provided. thank you 😢

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@thomasbrown8598, you are welcome! Glad you liked the video :) Yes, you are correct in your query, I don't think I had really seen that before. Also, the shapes are identical between the 5, 4, 3 and 6, 5, 4 string sets.

[@thomasbrown8598]

@@acousticguitarlessons this lesson to me is useful as reference, and to create etc, but keeping it at hand in my mind, wish I could, but thats on me. Thanks again.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

​@@thomasbrown8598 you can, just takes some time. If you apply these chords regularly in your playing and have an effective strategy to learn them over the fretboard, you'll get them down. Follow the strategy I lay out in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/on-pp2CmpNmrjNk with the shapes presented in this one and you'll be on your way :)

[@MattBargain]

An easier way to explain this is to just take bar chords and just use the parts on the three strings you're playing. On the 12th fret it starts with cowboy chords again but you need to change the root, which is now an octave higher.

[@acousticguitarlessons]

I get your point Matt Bargain however not all triad shapes live inside the main bar chord shapes.

[@CarlWinter-oy8uf]

small error ----@ 12 : 27 you show the 8 th fret barre as F (on screen next to you ) but it sounds higher --like the 10th fret ?---F Major triad?

[@acousticguitarlessons]

I will have to check the video, but more than likely a typo on my part. Thanks for letting me know :)