Stop Being Lazy With Your Triads (Jazz Guitar Secrets)

Triads are only 3 notes but you can use them in so many ways for both comping and solos.
If someone asked me what 3 things are most important to learn for your solos, Triads would be on that list!
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Content:
00:00 Intro
00:23 #1 Triads Are Great Jazz Chords
01:03 #2 Spread Triads Are Amazing Chords!
02:12 #3 Getting Free From Scale Melodies
02:50 Not Just The Major Scale!
03:48 #4 This is REALLY knowing your triads
04:33 #5 Getting Melodic
06:20 Practicing the right things for Jazz
06:28 7 Hard Guitar Skills That Pay Off Forever
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[@JensLarsen]

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[@matteytalis7642]

Great video!!

[@JensLarsen]

@@matteytalis7642 Thank you :)

[@j.powellnetwork]

I agree this is one of his best videos

[@cutronixxx]

I cannot believe how much you put into this video. It’s so clear and I could spend months and months if not years just going through these concepts. Your playing and video production continually inspire. You are an incredibly generous master teacher and master musician. Thank you!!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it! Yes, these are concepts you can easily spend a lifetime exploring.

[@kevindonnelly761]

@@JensLarsen You ain't kidding ! 😐

[@JensLarsen]

@@kevindonnelly761 Nope, but in a way that is also what is great about it 😁😁

[@kevindonnelly761]

@@JensLarsen That is so true.

[@Mjumbojetpresdent]

@@JensLarsen I agree with this poster. Thanks for everything man. You're too generous and it has helped me a lot. Peace and love.

[@RC32Smiths01]

Triads are simply some of the most foundational concepts in all of music, and they can be expanded on in something as intricate as Jazz! Thanks Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it!

[@RC32Smiths01]

@@JensLarsen As always!

[@ragingchimera8021]

I think you are really hitting your stride on how you simply break down jazz for people to understand and play, great lessons lately Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂

[@cheeziest2313]

Stevie T as the country example was brilliant!

[@christianeauthier9603]

I love your videos, so well explained and full of explanations. 😍 🤗. The free pdf are so helpful and appreciated. Merci beaucoup!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Australia__]

Thank you so much Jens. This is brilliant. Just brilliant. So many ideas, options etc., especially when we get stuck on the basic major and minor pentatonic scales going up and down in the same position. You have explained some brilliant tools and ideas for triads and arpeggios here with easy to follow diagrams that will help me and no doubt many others enormously.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful! Go for it!

[@villadsils9208]

Thank you so much for all the amazing videos you are putting up, and it is free! It is so helpful. Thanks

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like them!

[@kevincarbone3580]

Such a pleasure to watch your videos. Relaxed, unpretentious and most educational. Thanks!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂

[@Touchguitar]

Excellent Jens! Really useful and clearly explained!!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you think so!

[@GByePorkPieHat]

Super important lesson, for me as a solo chord melody performer and as an accompanist. All this info in under 7 minutes. Amazing! Thank you, Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was helpful!

[@maxmillan4681]

Wow yes so much information in a very clear and understandable way. Tak Jens 🙏

[@JensLarsen]

My pleasure!

[@michaeljaramillo6263]

Outstanding Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it!

[@bassyey]

I just started arpeggios last week, I already know my triads anywhere in the neck. I actually find it easier to find good enough melodies using these than a whole scale, probably because I'm not good enough too process too many notes lol. That' why I like working with 3 notes or 4 notes! So much better, it just fits.

[@yesto9676]

There's no reason to stop at just learning triads. Learn fitting chord extensions and then you basically know the scales as well.

[@picksalot1]

Great video, full of practical tips and insights. Learning to use triads effectively opens up another beautiful dimension to playing guitar. You are one of the very best teachers on KZbin in my opinion. Thanks

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@blacklion401]

Your page is amazing and so helpful. I’ve been playing for years and never was all that interested in jazz until I found your channel. Now I’m all about it and you help break things down in a way that actually makes sense to me. Cheers dude 🤟🏻

[@JensLarsen]

Awesome, thank you!

[@Kinda___Happy]

I had been practicing the diatonic arps, but it’s so funny how changing the patterns like that breathes so much more life and excitement into them. Excellent lesson, thank you 🙏

[@rezacheshmeshab9820]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Thank you very much for your generous and masterful training

[@jfok210]

Easy to understand, and fun, and sound so good, thank you.

[@OnTheOnlyShipButHalfWannaSink]

This is a particularly great installment, Jens. Many thanks!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it 🙂

[@thumplife792]

Triads; easy to learn, hard to master. Really good discussion, Jens!

[@lawrencemasket3617]

Thank you so much! Gives me hope!!

[@JensLarsen]

You got this!

[@triguna7692]

great jazz player and teacher .

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you!

[@janallexander5173]

Thanks Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

You're so welcome!

[@Alan-zi2rs]

Thanks Jens great video 👌👍🎶🎶🎶🎸

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@sparks3019]

Great idea!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you think so!

[@fivetimesyo]

Well I got the coffee and the arrogance down. I figure that two out of three is pretty good.

[@JensLarsen]

Certainly not a bad start! 😁

[@wallyhynds8067]

I don't! I think we need a video on coffee.

[@JensLarsen]

@@wallyhynds8067 😁😂 well....

[@juliaojapelto]

Again Jens opens the box of Pandora and gives us the holy grail of understanding how to make playing more interesting and still keep it simple. Jens you’re amazing❤️

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you, Julia 🙂

[@samuelemahtolo]

Great, great, great ! The trap is it always sounds easy with you, when it isn't, actually !

[@TreeintheQuad]

I think this video taught me more about what goes on in jazz improv than several books, online research, and years of listening have been able to.

[@TreeintheQuad]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it was useful 🙂

[@andreasn8615]

Amazing video Jens! I have watched so many of your videos over the last years and I thought I knew everything about triads. But I was wrong! 😀

[@JensLarsen]

Haha! Glad it was useful :)

[@reckless-ramblers]

Hi Jens, very good lesson, it really opens up my fluidity for jazz chord voicing in switching fingers for the chord/triad voicings. I'm older, not as fast for the arpeggios, but a diligent learner. To be honest I slow things down to 75% speed, stop it to read sections and diagrams and repeat the lesson and sections. If it were at all possible? - to move the title "Stop Being Lazy With Your Triads (Jazz Guitar Secrets)" from the top left to the bottom right. When stopping the video to read the chords listed and tab charts, the title blocks out the chord letters listed when the video is stopped. I use the .pdf on the website, which is great; following along on the video is very helpful as well. Thank you for all you do, it is an incredible amount of work that you do putting all this together to present the lessons. I love your country, had a great time there many years ago and worked for a while under a Dutch chef here in the US before retiring. Robbie in Colorado

[@michaeldennisguitarlessons]

Jens, Great Lesson! Basic Triads are a topic that is ofttimes skipped over by beginning jazz guitar players. "Guitar Fingerboard Harmony" by Edward McGuire starts off with learning major, minor, augmented and diminished triads. Ed McGuire was an early mentor to me back in the late 1970's. "Harmonic Mechanisms For Guitar" by George Van Eps (THE MIGHTY TRIADS!) is a tome for the more ambitious amongst us.(lol)

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks Michael! I have never heard of Edward McGuire, but I have of course checked out some George Van Eps 🙂

[@michaeldennisguitarlessons]

@@JensLarsen Ed McGuire lived in Altoona, PA. His "Guitar Fingerboard Harmony" book was published by Mel Bay in 1976.

[@tim5749]

Hi jens! I’m a jazz guitarist that basically got thrown into the jazz world with no experience. Granted I listened to jazz constantly but like 6 months ago I started playing with a band for the first time. I used the triad approach for comping because I used to be a piano player. So for a C major 7 I would play an e minor or for a C7 I would play E diminished, etc. I sounded really good doing this and I stayed out of the piano player’s way! I would recommend this approach for any guitarist in any music context.

[@JensLarsen]

Yes, triads as voicings is super solid!

[@JF-em6hr]

The theory is always way over my head but I enjoy the practicing. The humor is great too.

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks! Go for it!

[@Hobbot72]

thank you very much

[@JensLarsen]

Glad it helped

[@analogalien]

Jens, this is such a great lesson!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it!

[@analogalien]

@@JensLarsen Jens, just out of curiosity, what brand of strings do you use and what is the gauge?

[@JensLarsen]

@@analogalien 13s from Sonotone. There is a link in the video description 🙂

[@analogalien]

@@JensLarsen Thank you!

[@FollowSteveJPN]

Damn this was good. The part where you demonstrated making lines with triads.. that's exactly what I needed. I come from a metal background so scales are fine but, I want more melodic phrases

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! Glad to hear it!

[@branchassassin7198]

Lmao Stevie T getting a country shoutout ftw! Triads are boss, for me it's the best way to think about chords because it's so simple. And like you said there's lots of room for embellishment- so instead of having to remember what a min13 6/9aug#19 looks like you can just find the simplest base interval and embellish with the more complicated voicing Love your content Jens

[@JensLarsen]

I was wondering if anyone would notice, I imagine that my audience is probably not really checking him out 😁

[@branchassassin7198]

@@JensLarsen I’ve got eclectic tastes what can I say?! :D

[@rockstarjazzcat]

Woot!

[@artompkins7958]

Hmm - as usual, super helpful and generous content! So, if Arrogance is in the top three tools of the jazz guitarist, how do YOU play so well?

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 😁

[@thijs199]

Im learning spread triads now, guitar playing for Me is still a lot of memorizing

[@discountmusician8951]

The triads are nice used for single note soloing...well you make them sound nice.My question is with split voicings or closed voicings on triad 7 chords..are there any necessary notes that need to be in the triad chord? I notice you omit the root.But what about the other notes like the 5th?

[@JensLarsen]

That depends on the context, mostly you want to have the 3rd and 7th(or 6th) in there.

[@i_chatoglou]

Just a question: when playing triads, are you thinking of theory (this triad over this chord) OR of shapes (this triangle over this chord)? Thanks

[@JensLarsen]

Any thing you want to use should be practiced so that you don't have to think about it while playing. I don't think it really matters if it is shapes or theory, they will both screw up your flow.

[@drslump9314]

0:15 Country music with Stevie T? That is obscene!

[@JensLarsen]

😁 Not many people caught that!

[@africanchina1]

This is all good Jens but how do you practice it??

[@JensLarsen]

The last 3 come with exercises and talk about how you practice them right? So which ones are you asking about

[@conticinio_]

0:16 Stivie T xD

[@alexandresaes]

👏👏👏👏👏👏❄️❄️❤️🇧🇷

[@thijs199]

Oh I guessed the spread triads thing. I'm miles ahead of you lol

[@thijs199]

yes, wes montgomery that's the guy with the thumb

[@jackknife4547]

Wish you were my professor in grade school, cat.

[@krmaxxe]

this is for highly advanced players

[@JensLarsen]

No, it is for beginner Jazz gujitarists there is nothing in there that is really advanced.

[@krmaxxe]

@@JensLarsen I've been playing for 50 years mostly chords and pentatonic scales, your scales would have me in a step by step note for note and the chords are something I'm not used to playing. There was a lot in those triads

[@JensLarsen]

@@krmaxxe I don't know you or how you play, but If you have been playing for 50 years and not even learned major scales and basic diatonic chords then I find that surprising. This is fairly basic and fundamental stuff to know, and not something that belongs in the category of highly advanced.

[@krmaxxe]

@@JensLarsen like I sed mostly regular chords, pentatonic blues scales I also play mostly by ear too and would like to further my playing. Your system I just saw would mean I'll need to sit with it each of those lessons for quite some time to master those.

[@JensLarsen]

@@krmaxxe Yes, but you have also very little experience with Jazz and Jazz songs, right?

[@buellzz]

Need to work out some arrogance exercises. I've got the coffee sussed.

[@JensLarsen]

😂👍

[@vincent1951fly]

+++++

[@sergeybogdanovich7019]

❤️🙏🎼🎶🎵🎸✌️🍀👌🇮🇱love

[@DaddySantaClaus]

triads are in every jazz solo ever from django to wes

[@JensLarsen]

Indeed!