Music Theory Lessons - Spread Triads

[@sabrinakingsoundworks9897]

OMG! OMG! This video just blew my mind. Self-taught beginner. Stuck in triad land. This blew my mind! I tried it on my own keyboard and it made the most beautiful sounds I've ever heard...just messing around. Omg, Rick, you'll never see this. Nov, 2023, now But thank you, this is the kind of music I've been wanting to create..I just didn't know how to do it! And it's easy, generally speaking! The Newman Music, yes! I know you hear thank you a lot, but this video truly has changed my musical aspirations. I've wanted to write music since I was a kid. ❤

[@adamsmith4416]

Sometimes with all extended chords I forget triads. Thanks for reminding me how simple techniques of voicing can really change the color and feel of a chord. Something I often forget when just stacking intervals to get cool complex chords.

[@Yannleon_video]

HUGE "haha!" moment for me. So simple and so effective.

[@lefevrealban]

I love that I start learning theory after I've been playing for a couple of years. Of course it's counter-productive, but I just love re-discovering songs by realising that they use this or that technique, I feel like I am opening a new world of possibilities every time I learn a new cool technique!

[@stevelandsaw3132]

Wow! I’m in love with spread triads now. Thanks, Rick!

[@kentlindsaymusic]

Wow, life changing video here for me. I did not know my keyboard was capable of this beautiful sound. It's comfortable too! Great stuff Rick!

[@DavidDiMuzio]

I basically watch every video you post. Great information. Thank you :)

[@RickBeato]

Thank you so much David!

[@gamian_skillard1333]

I am completely the same way, and I bought your book!

[@tris10thearchitect66]

I can't describe how amazing your videos are! Thank you so much for everything! You are an amazing person!

[@thomasmcgill6918]

This is great. I use spread triads all the time without knowing it. LOL Simple and yet powerful! Thanks

[@bobbybordbar2096]

Hey Rick,Thanks for the lessons man. As a jazz player I am constantly looking to expand my sound and a few of your videos, including the usage of diminished scale in playing, have really helped me alot. Look forward to seeing more videos!

[@alextejeda5639]

Thank you

[@edh1293]

Hello Rick, I subscribed to your channel. I want to say thank you for taking the time to make these great videos for us. It is very much appreciated by me and I'm sure for everyone else.

[@maxgray5875]

I love how you say” the major 2nd made it want to expand”. It’s really an alchemical statement. Spending my life as a “there are no rules to music” guy and just shredding this is fresh air. I can actually expand and express even more with music theory and this improv piece really does have that feeling to it, that feeling of expansion

[@Ndo01]

Can't believe I've never thought of this, thanks!

[@mjt11860]

now i know how movie soundtracks r made, SPREAD TRIADS! :)

[@victorimanpandiwidjaja1600]

thanks for the great lesson! blessed you

[@truthpopup]

I call it the tenth chord, where the third of a major or minor triad is played an octave higher. It sounds cleaner than a regular triad played in the bass section of the piano, where the abundance of overtones makes close-voiced chords sound muddy. My left hand is just big enough to span a tenth on the keyboard.

[@Mezilesialan]

Hello Rick, I tried spread triads on my Spanish guitar this morning. They are very beautiful . Thank you. One of my long term goals is to be able to add chords to an improvised melody line , in motion. Clearly you have highly developed skills as a musician. Can you do it ? There is nothing so delightful as extemporary play. With good wishes, and thanks again, Alan

[@stilllife4u]

Thought Provoking ,very cool, nice examples . thank you Rick . Noe we have to use the method with poly chord's .That's a hand full .

[@RickBeato]

Thank you so much Kevin! I like your hand-full on the polychords. I did some examples on that video with speed triads in each hand and that is a loy of stretching! Please let me know if there are any other topics you are interested in so I can cover them in the future. Also, please tell your friends about my channel :) Thanks! Rick

[@carlosa.chacon985]

So awesome 🥺😭

[@DEDZU786]

Thanks for your interesting lessons. May I suggest that the written titles that appear sometimes should stay longer on the screen.

[@gamian_skillard1333]

That screensaver is so boss

[@FaRoss232]

I need to stop watching your videos while at work, every time I watch them I want to head home to my studio and create a cue lol

[@roanmccormick2297]

Great stuff Rick :)

[@CHUNGAandNANOOK]

I love you and your videos

[@rohanfirminger9182]

Beautiful! Funny how you reveal the logic behind things I hear and create, but did not realize that I and others were moving the middle note in a chord up or down an octave or octaves. Are you using Cinematic Strings 2 for the strings by any chance? Thanks for once again highlighting these components of music theory. :)

[@davemckay4359]

Thanks

[@emilioalvarezargamasill7543]

rick! is there any way you could do a video of spread triads on guitar? I' ve been studying spread triads but never seen something like this on guitar before. Cheers man, your channel is the best!!

[@emilioalvarezargamasill7543]

sorry if my english is not the best!

[@RickBeato]

+Emilio Alvarez Argamasill I think I have one already?

[@PoweredByKiwi]

Awesome input again! Little criticism: A top view of the piano would help me follow your explanations a lot ;-) And you wouldn't need to tell us as much what notes you are playing at any time.

[@RickBeato]

Thanks Sleuthed! People have mentioned that on the other videos. If I added a second camera, it would take 3 times as long to make the videos since I don't have anyone helping me yet. This is why I have asked people to become part of my Patreon community. I have PDF's of this video and all the others as well as more in depth videos, PDF's and content only for my Patreon supporters. Thanks! Rick

[@juliansolo1825]

Hi Rick, I don't know much about this Patreon thing but the link is dead I guess it is something limited in time. Is the PDF's available in other formulas?? Thanks

[@alvarosg7]

awesome video as always rick. have you ever scored for a movie/tv show? if so can you tell us where we can find your work, i would love to hear it. thanks

[@TheBoglodite]

How are these any different than inversions?

[@idontgivea1769]

In inversions the root and the 5th can be moved. In a spread triad, only the 3rd moves.

[@zachhughes9220]

At around 3:15 The d major spread triad, I see you playing the F# but I don’t see you move that 3 up/down. Finger didn’t look like it moved. Did I miss it or did you play the lower octave off screen and keep the initial 3rd?

[@Jokur21]

Very cool :)

[@gonzalovivas6780]

Hi Rick! Here from Uruguay, South America, got a simple question i think.. How do i recognize the tonality of a song? So i can play the modes on each chords.. I always try to follow the scale, and then i realize which mode i got to play, but i wanna know an easier method if it exists.. Thanks so much!

[@richardv.582]

Funny , I just found out about this gentleman 2 days ago. I play triads all the time ,but open triads just made covid-19 aliitle easier to endure..

[@oliverlacota3112]

Hi Rick! What's the difference (if any) between the Lydian triad you described at 11:15 (1 #4 5) and a sus4 chord?

[@idontgivea1769]

The 4th is natural in a sus4

[@Joj1n]

Some sounds are like twin peaks by David Lynch

[@sebas00724]

I will subscribe to your patron asap

[@kencarlmusic]

what keyboard or patch are you using for your strings? Just sounds so good

[@adamlowry8687]

Same for guitar?

[@carlotapuig]

Yes, Rick Beato has several videos on spread triads on guitar. They are extremely helpful

[@whatevsimbulletproof]

I'd be grateful if you could show the keys you press. It's really hard for a beginner to understand what's going on. I think the problem with your videos is that you explain stuff to people with little to no musical background but you treat them like professionals.

[@cornbobrimlove7892]

Well.....It seems that I do not know when to call it a sus 2 or to call it an add 9.........some of those spread triads you called sus 2 sounded like add 9 to my ear......why?

[@RickBeato]

Add9 means the it is added to a triad.Csus2 = C D G Cadd6 = C D E G.

[@cornbobrimlove7892]

ok...I guess what I don't understand is: Why isn't CDEG called add 2.....if the D is in the same octave? ii. What is "C G,above (power chord) then add the D as a perfect 5th above that G?????

[@cornbobrimlove7892]

thank you for your reply by the way :-)

[@RickBeato]

It's a sus2 or sus9 but nobody calls it that. I know it's odd that people don't use sus9 but you call ant combination of C E G Cmajor no matter what octave they are in.

[@cornbobrimlove7892]

1,2,5 sounds sus to me, but 1,5,9 voicing sounds completely different. I guess since I'm a play by ear musician with no real theory training...I would like to be able to tell another musician the degree/ measurement/ embellishment of a given chord and for them as well as myself to know what I'm talking about. I love love love your videos by the way. Best thing I've ever found in one group ever! Please keep it up and thank you. I know how time consuming putting together a video is.

[@georgemartisius7226]

Did anyone hear halo music when he started played that first melody?

[@rcjward]

Every time you stop playing that Skawshank Redemption example you leave me needing to here a it resolve to a D chord.

[@jakemf1]

I wonder if the composer thought about the theory of what he was playing, voicing leading and spread triads or he just had melody and harmonized it as he wanted to or heard it?

[@meeichenberger9673]

I think it's a mixture. If he knows how all these theoretical concepts sound, he is able to harmonize a melody much faster, because then he knows how to write the parts he hears in his head down just like others write down words.

[@joyfullmusicexploring-thom5093]

sorry to say so but these pedal synth sounds really suck. i cant hear the intervals like this. standard piano would be sufficient