How To Connect Triads With Scales On Guitar Part 1 (Ep. 5)

Tabs: www.becomegreatatguitar.com/l...
Watch Part 2 Here: • How To Connect Triads ...
Timeline:
01:18 Step 1 - Foundational Exercise
02:00 One String Pattern
03:03 Step 2 - Recognize Triads in Scales
05:23 Step 3 - Play Through The Entire Exercise
08:12 Step 4 - Triad Practice
Before you can connect scales to triads, it's obvious that you need to be able to play both separately-the scales and the triads. If you don't know how to play either of these, then don't worry. I'll show you both so that you can follow along with this powerful exercise and benefit from practicing it.
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[@wackojacko3962]

@ 5:56 your picking pattern doesn't follow the tablature. You up-stroke Emin but tab shows you down-stroke E B G . 😉

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Oh... You're right!. Sorry, I made a mistake in the tabs. On The Em It's exactly the opposite of what's displayed: It's Up(E), Up(B), Up (G), Down (B). I correct the tabs on my website, so everyone can reference this. Thanks for pointing this out to me!👍

[@vertyisprobablydead]

Imagine using picking patterns. Imagine having all the notes you're supposed to play and being like "well how am I supposed to pick them?"

[@oscariglesias5529]

Beautiful lesson with free tabs... Man, thanks a lot. Liked and subscribed! You got yourself a follower!!!

[@vwu450]

Excellent practice for memorizing triads 👍

[@vinvin1909]

Nice one, thanks!

[@jtheegg0369]

The lesson every guitarist skips and realizes years later this is the true beginning. 🥲

[@FlyAwayHawk]

that's me right now. "multiple scale positions? mannn, I already know one!"

[@becomegreatatguitar]

well said!

[@comethrudru]

This is me…today. 😂

[@chrishammock6686]

8 years man and I’m just now getting it

[@HawtSauwce]

@@chrishammock6686 Same, but fortunately even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.

[@shelliecurry6052]

Great lesson! Looking forward to part 2!

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thank you! Part II is in the making. I hope to release it until the end of the upcoming week!

[@terryquinn2042]

Great lesson extremely well explained. Thank you this will help many guitar players. Please keep up your tutorials they are very refreshing clear and concise . Excellent!!!

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thank you, Terry! Good to hear such great feedback!

[@robhead22]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

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[@wchphoto]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

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[@kimborgen]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thanks for coming!

[@alfredobituin4571]

Thank you so much for the invaluable lessons. I'm beginning to understand and connect triads and scales.

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thanks for sharing this, Alfredo! I'm really happy it helped you!

[@kevinlewellen1037]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

Welcome! And thanks for the sub!

[@mitchellscott8696]

Interesting approach for the triads journey. This will keep me busy for a while,

[@Chimp_No_1]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

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[@zapantalambda]

It's such a refreshing tutorial . Nicely made cos I watched from start to end. Thank you for this kind sir !

[@becomegreatatguitar]

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[@StuartwasDrinkell]

This such a good work out thanks

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thanks for trying it out!

[@neiletherington9439]

Really good lesson thanks for the time and effort you took to make this.

[@becomegreatatguitar]

My pleasure! I'm happy you find value in this lesson.

[@phoekwar433]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

My pleasure!Thanks for watching!

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

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[@mabblers]

Great lesson, WOW I'm impressed. I'm going to start doing this right away.

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thanks and happy practicing!

[@aliegemengok2410]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

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[@Phaethon569]

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[@becomegreatatguitar]

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[@bahationesphore1097]

what a great tutorial! This is what I needed to make a move

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you!

[@ShenBinhao]

Really Good Lesson : Sounds Good, Fun, Understandable with some basic. I’ve not played guitar 10 years+ & watched this vdo till the end enjoying it. Really recommended.

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thanks for your great feedback! I'm so happy you enjoyed watching the entire video!

[@AlexKosSaheli]

Ty ty will practice it, very useful Also ther outro track is pretty cool

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thnks! Glad you like it

[@sirishthapa651]

🤌 great lesson

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thanks, glad you like it!

[@ovenkloven]

I'm hooked❤😂

[@EchoesOfTheDeep]

I was looking for exercises to work on my triads horizontaly and not just in position. This is perfect ! Thank you

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Glad you find it helpful! Happy practicing!

[@EchoesOfTheDeep]

@@becomegreatatguitar Thanks for including a free tab in your website. By the way i think you made a little mistake while writting it. At the end of the B section, at the second to last bar you go F Dm, i think it should be Am and F in order to follow the same pattern (all the previous triads are either 1st or 2nd inversion and here the Dm is in root position creating kind of a Dm7 arpeggio).

[@becomegreatatguitar]

You're completely right. It's A-Minor not D-Minor! I've fixed that. Thanks, I appreciate you for pointing this out to me!!! @@EchoesOfTheDeep

[@serhiiderkach8126]

intro sounds beautiful

[@becomegreatatguitar]

thank you!

[@wagonet]

love the accent, and the lesson.

[@Kyasuta7]

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[@user-gd3tl8zn9g]

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[@davidperezmarin8865]

Precioso

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[@ranman58635]

2 over 3 down, 2 down 3 over, that has opened up my playing. E major and A minor are my go to. Any key now.

[@gedinchristian603]

J'ai travaillé votre exercice avec guitar Pro dans les 12 tonalités et sur les 4 sets de cordes. C'est un travail colossal mais qui apporte énormément dans la conaissances triades certes mais aussi du manche. Sans parler de la connaissance des gammes Majeures dans une configuration horizontale. Et en Bonus, c'est très musical et on peut s'amuser à improviser.

[@becomegreatatguitar]

I'm impressed with the level of determination you're putting into these exercises! Practicing this in all 12 keys is really a major commitment! I'm sure you've made some serious progress. Thank you for giving them a try and letting me know! You rock!!!

[@cdub3506]

This is a really cool concept!. I see a bass in the back round. I was wondering if you could do a video showing this idea on the bass? I am a bass player looking to work on my soloing by connecting triads.

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Cool! Great having a bass player here. You can simply take a look at the tabs and go through the exercise with starting the one string pattern on the g string. Everything else is the same for bass guitar.

[@Stevie_D_Pre]

Puzzles pieces started connecting themselves watching this 🙏🏻

[@becomegreatatguitar]

That's awesome. Happy you find it helpful!

[@swertresnibosing2893]

The best tutorial in youtube

[@lawrencedeans1433]

The triad diagram at the end, Em to C is 6 notes away C to F is 4 notes away F to Dm is 6 notes Dm to G is 4 G to Em 6 and so on it alternates between 6 and 4 throughtout the fretboard 😊

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thanks, man! That's great. I haven't noticed that.

[@lawrencedeans1433]

@becomegreatatguitar welcome I thought it might help someone with the chords

[@KoMa3D777]

2:06 “hol up that kinda hard… i got 1 2 3 4 5… 📝”

[@typerlover]

Whats the intro jam tab?

[@alvarofigueroa4693]

Brilliant tutorial man! Thanks so much for putting it together and sharing it here. I think I found a minor mistake on page 2/4 of the tabs: the Am chord at the bottom of the page (last bar) is displayed as using a B on the 5th string. I think it should be C (3rd fret on the same string). Regardless, this is a great exercise for getting to know the fretboard and the triads around it. Cheers👏

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thank you, Alvaro! So happy that you went through the exercises and found a typo in the tabs. I'll fix that soon.

[@Shafaq69]

Pls also teach how to connect scales across fretboard vertically

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Ok, I got you. The same theory applies for both directions. If you practice this horizontally, like in the video, then it's very likely that you'll recognize the vertical scale to chord connections as well. This might just take some time to implement. But sure, I capture your video idea. Thanks for your suggestion!

[@vincent1951fly]

Hello, I just discover your website and it"s realy super. Thanks for this. Have a question is there a way to make a copy of the excercice? so you don"t have to play before the pcv but you can work even outside or in another room..

[@becomegreatatguitar]

I'm not sure what you mean. What is pcv?

[@vincent1951fly]

sorry I mean PC (personal Computerà

[@raullukebenitez7033]

What's your pedal chain for getting that sound in the opening? Sounds awesome

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thanks. I went straight into my audio interface and just used the Softube Marshall Silver Jubilee 2555 plugin with the spring box reverb and true delay from logic pro x's guitar pedal plugin.

[@raullukebenitez7033]

@@becomegreatatguitar simple but sounds amazing. And great lesson. Thanks.

[@jomerapachecha6031]

Good sounding guitar, nice body and neck. What brand of guitar?

[@becomegreatatguitar]

It's a DIY-build. The ash body and the maple neck are taken from a harley benton TE-30 with the lacquer removed, stained and finished with true oil, refretted with jumbo frets, mojotone pickups + electronics & ABM bridge

[@user-ir8qw2ow4s]

Cómo descargo el Pdf???

[@michaelsmith473]

Boss

[@RandyRan9545]

So we can think of this practice like this : Build up 7 chords from C major: Cmaj7, Dmin7, Em7, Fmaj7, G7, Am7, Bm7-5, and devide each into 2 independent chords, we got Em and C from Cmaj7, F and Dm from Dm7, G and Em from Em7....

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Yeah, it's all about the third relationships. On one hand is building 7th chords and dividing them a step extra for the just learning the exercise. But on the other hand is knowing about the close relationship you mentioned very useful when it comes to improvisation.

[@gedinchristian603]

J'ai bien compris le principe. Ce qui serait idéal, ce serait un cours complet avec toutes les cordes. On peut évidemment chercher soi-même mais c'est beaucoup de temps qu'on pourrait s'économiser. D'autant que l'idéal serait aussi de faire le même travail dans toutes les tonalités. Qu'en pensez-vous?

[@becomegreatatguitar]

You got it, Christian! The tabs to play this exercise on all strings are freely available here: www.becomegreatatguitar.com/learn-to-connect-scales-with-triads-chords/ I think it’s a good idea to practice this in different keys. I would start easy by progressively going through the circle of fifths. But even if you just do this exercise in one or two different keys, you'll already make BIG progress.

[@user-fc9od4cr2t]

When you say ""repeat the pattern across all six strings".. Do you mean repeat the pattern ?.. Or repeat the notes as a pattern ?

[@becomegreatatguitar]

I think I mean to keep using the same (sixteens note) pattern while practicing this on every string. But I'm not 100% sure if I understand your question right. Could you please point to the time stamp when I'm saying this? You can also take a look at the tabs on my website. I tabbed how to play the entire pattern on all strings.

[@gedinchristian603]

J'ai essayé votre pattern à partir de la corde 2 à vide. Je devais obtenir les triades Bdim et G à partir de la corde à vide. ça marche pour G mais pas pour B dim. Il y a quelque chose qui m'échappe dans votre démarche. Pourriez-vous m'aider à mieux la comprenre? Merci

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Sure! If you start this on the b string and you wanna play the bdim then you need to play this triad on just the b and d string: b d f -> b=open b string, d=open d string, f=d string 3rd fret. Unfortunately, it breaks the beautiful pattern because you can't go lower than g. To understand why this happens just try to play the first triads bdim and G an octave higher. This should help you understand why it works this way. You can easily take a look at the tabs here. It is on page 2/4: www.becomegreatatguitar.com/learn-to-connect-scales-with-triads-chords/ Hope this help!

[@gedinchristian603]

@@becomegreatatguitar Thank you for the tabs.

[@davepriddle2968]

Been playing guitar since 1985….. this is my “Aha!” moment in 2024!!

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Wow! That's great feedback, Dave! This makes my day!

[@cancionescafe]

@@becomegreatatguitar Where is Episode 1? Can't find the link.

[@becomegreatatguitar]

@@cancionescafe Here is Ep.1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGesZKyribF5sKM

[@BornIIfly]

I just slam my guitar and hope it sounds good 🤦🏻‍♂️ rythm, rhymes and beats. Nice vid, take care 🍀

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thanks!

[@calebsj]

is there an easy way to figure out which triads to use without having all the notes in the triads in front of you?

[@becomegreatatguitar]

I don‘t think it is. It takes quite some time to getting used to this concept, but it’s worth the effort!

[@gedinchristian603]

Bonjour. J'ai fait de votre exercice une des mes routines. Je viens de constater cependant qu'il n'y avait aucune triade à l'état fondamental dans votre exercice. Est-ce un choix délibéré? Cela n'enlève rien à la qualité de l'exercice et à l'aide qu'il apporte dans la connaissance du manche.

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Bonjour. Thanks for mentioning this. The root positions are really not covered in this exercise at all. It's was not a deliberate choice by me to omit them. It turned out this way because of the way the exercise is designed. But you surely could design a similar exercise where you go through all inversions for each triad. My first idea for such an exercise would be to simply extend the triads vertically. This way you arpeggiate the triad on more than just 3 strings. You could do variations on 4, 5 or maybe even 6 six strings. Similar to what I showed in part two of this exercise.

[@MichaelAngellano]

I wanna learn this but could not understand..

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Can you be more specific?

[@user-fc9od4cr2t]

This may be considered a trivial comment.. But my Fingers won't stretch far enough for the first pattern, unless I lift the first finger after playing it ?

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thanks for mentioning this. You're 100% not alone with this. Here are two things you can do about it. First, start this exercise on the 12th fret and work your way towards the lower frets. This way, you sequentially increase the difficulty. Notice when it's getting hard to stretch and slow down. Second, keep trying. It's okay to do this imperfectly. It's part of the journey. With time and practice, you will gradually improve.

[@nicholastingang91]

Thanks for the video. Will work on it. 🫡 new subr !

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@jordanjohnson7142]

I don’t know why this is so difficult for me to understand. I’ve tried for years and it just doesn’t click

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Sorry to hear that, Jordan. Can you be more specific about what’s difficult? Maybe I can clarify…The topic in this video is quite information dense, so there is a lot to process and I haven‘t explained everything from the very beginning. So chances are that you‘re not alone with this.

[@bingbongbingbong4305]

Maybe because instead of trying to learn and asking questions you sit there and just complain that it’s not coming together for u.

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This is still Greek to me

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[@georgeallan6550]

A scale is a way of looking at a group of notes as individuals. Then go to intervallic pairs which would be two notes. Then group the notes in a little party of three. These are the triads. There is no separation between chords and scales. Chords are just collections of scale notes. This method of looking at the material is not really balanced and needs more work. It is not smart to jump from single notes to triads. All the pairs should be learned first.

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Thanks for sharing your perspective. It's true that scales and chords are closely interconnected, with chords being derived from scales. This approach here is just one of many methods used to understand the relationship between scales and chords. It's just one piece from an infinite puzzle...

[@georgeallan6550]

I don't think it is infinite really. It expands out to a great body but not infinite. The human ear canonly percieve a limited range of pitches so infinite is not the right word. I find that most teachers say things that are not true and inaccurate. I try now to only say things that are true when I teach.@@becomegreatatguitar

[@georgeallan6550]

I don't think that chords are derived from scales. You can just create a chord without thinking of the scale as the source. If you want you can think back to the scale and show where the pitches occur in the scale in 2nds. The word derive implies a sequence of thought conducted to acheive a desired destination. You statement should be changed to "The chords may be derived from the scale." I can for example derive chords from intervals, not scales. It can be shown that the pitches of a given chord also occur in a scale but the chord exists independant of that contrivance.@@becomegreatatguitar

[@lonniedobbins]

You talk to much trivia, and while not showing the pattern.

[@mbrownie22]

WTH you talking about? He showed a pattern at 2:30 I doubt you even watched this video before writing your comment

[@stevenjaywalters]

Dude… I could barely hear what you were saying above all the noise. Maybe take out the background wind noise and I could understand what you’re saying.

[@SF_Curious]

Another useless confusion lesson. 👎

[@becomegreatatguitar]

Sorry you find this useless and confusing. What can I do better?