A Simple Way To Learn Triads On Guitar [By Shape & By Position] 

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

This is one of the most accurate approach to triads found on RU-vid. I've learnt and understood triads. Thanks Simon.

This has got to be the best most simple and understandable explanation of triads that I have come across. I've watched multiple videos on it and I even have face to face guitar lessons with an instructor and this guy was the only one that made me really understand the basics of it and how to use it. Thank you so much!

Absolutely loves your explanations of basic stuff and examples, without showing off each 2 min with advanced execution like so many other online teachers ! Keep up the good work !1

Thanks. Perfectly explained. Opened a new world of understanding for a 70 year old very amateur guitarist. Much appreciated.

I found your channel today and I am amazed at the material in this lesson. I have been playing (simply for self entertainment) rhythm and lead guitar since 1964; I am a copy-cat with a huge repertoire of songs. However, I have never investigated triads and this lesson has opened a new avenue of discovery for me to shoot down. I am looking forward to the journey; many thanks!

I'm 2yrs too late here but this is the best video on Triads I have seen

I've seen a lot of triad videos, but this one is utterly brilliant on so many levels!

Thank you so much, as a 66 year old starting this journey having watch dozens of triad tubes you've nailed it and opened the door for me.😀

I’ve been watching many videos on triads and this was BY FAR the most clear, concise and comprehensive. Excellent work!

Out of all the videos I’ve come across on triads…your lesson was the one that actually helped me understand them. Thank you!!!

This is one heck of a lesson, and explained with great clarity. Great post. Thank you.

Yes, yes, thank you thank you this has moved me from a beginner to intermediate 👍

This is one of the lessons I find in youtube which I just sitdown and tell my self. Oh, I learned that. Great teaching! Incredible! Thank you!

This has really helped me understand triads and their inversions. Your simple detailed description of each triad and inversion is helping me visualize them in various areas of the fretboard. I would really like to see the application video for triads. Thank you for your excellent instruction.

I want to thank you for this video. It’s one of the easiest to understand videos on learning, triad shapes and I versions. this is something I’ve been working on lately and look through a lot of videos. But I finally got the lightbulb moment from yours. Thank you.

You are the only one who ever mentioned that we are dealing with the top three strings of the guitar. I know this may be obvious for some, but it isn’t if your new to guitar. Especially when you watch someone play it’s difficult to see this. Thank you. It just helps to be more clear when understanding this!

I'm just learning triads now and this is by far the best explanation I've found. Brilliant

Best Triad instruction I've ever seen on RU-vid, Thankyou

I have been playing for a year and I'm now realizing that inversions are very important and really help with my progress. Voice leading is very interesting and I think it is like a whole new world to me.

you the man, THANK YOU. finally get triads

My mind is blown by the gift you just gave me! I have struggled to move out of the first position (with the exception of barre chords). All I want to do now is practice these triads to the point that they become as familiar to me as the chords in the first position! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

This has been one of the most eye opening video on triads and most useful.. Thank you for doing this video.. I would like to see a video on how to utilize triads up and down the neck Sir🤘🏻🤘🏻 Craig

This is the lesson I've been looking for. Bravo.😀

Perfect video for when you get bored of doing scales and have open and barre chords down. I feel like this is a big step toward being able to effectively play with better players. Thanks!

I have been using inversions for years, but not really understanding the underlying mechanics of it, just learned a couple of shapes that had inversions and the rest you just know when it sounds right, but that is limiting. I always fall back to the familiar ones (kind of like acoustic players do with the cowboy chords). This is fantastic. You provide the shape, but also the underlying reason for the shapes and how to adapt that to different keys and chord progressions. I look forward to practicing this and incorporating it into more of my performances. Can't wait to watch some more videos from you. Thank you!

The lowest note of the inversion tip is really helpful. Thank you

This is wonderful. Thank you! I will begin practicing these triads with this video.

Please Please do more on triads as you showed us in this lesson easy to follow thanks

Thanks...especially for the free PDF! Very generous of you!!

Hi there excellent teaching thank you Iam 72 years old male always looking for stuff to learn on guitar.

Hands down, the best triad lesson, It open my mind. Thanks you, sir

I have been wanting to learn triads and found it hard to find info that made sense. You have changed my life! I got it. You really explained it. Thank you!

Well presented. Thanks for this explanation of how triads work.

Brilliant! I would love to see more about triads. As a lifelong musician, naturally I have heard of triads, but only just recently stumbled across them as a concept for playing guitar. More please!

Great lesson. Useful and well presented. Thank you.

All I can say is WOW!!! Your approach is straightforward and easy to understand. I had that " Ah Ha "moment when you mentioned the 3, 4 and 5 string variation. It makes sense when you explained about 1st 2nd and 3 version and shapes. I knew very little about triads before your tutorial and feel that you have opened my eyes to better understanding triads. I look forward to more videos about triads and until then I will be subscribing to your channel and checking it out. Thanks again.

I just had some major revelations !! Great video

wow what a gem of a video! Finally I'm able to understand triads! thanks a lot!

Any teacher is good in a particular field of teaching and you are good in this section.

Fantastic lesson. I learned so much from this. Thank you. x🥰

Brilliant. Admittedly I did stop the video half way through and started doing the shapes closer together in the similar position, which you do later in the lesson. So I like to think that means I understood the idea due to you making it clear and simple. Really a very, very good. Thank you.

Thanks, very nice tones. It’s another layer of info i can try to process. Good job!

Wow, your explanation is so clear!

Brilliant lesson thanks Colin 😊

Great work and patience. Thank you, this really helps.

Love to see how to use the triads you’ve shown.

Thank you so much for this amazing lesson, you've made triads make sense in a way no others have. I've been playing funk and it's started helping me shoot forward after years of limbo. This approach is much less confusing. I often skip and have over the years. Honestly, for someone who really struggled but has a ridiculous passion it's been the penny drop moment for me, I can even recognise that elusive B string much clearer and I haven't even begun lol. Top marks my good man😊

Very well Illustrated and great for beginners because it's not so overwhelming. Between this and learning the cage system people will really gain a lot of knowledge

Brilliant lesson ... thanks so much my friend!!

Hi Simon! Another very well done and informative video. I love the way you've presented this material in a thoughtful well laid out manner. Certainly a lot here to digest and it provides the tools for doing this applying these same principles to the triad shapes for other common progressions we choose to work with. Also, some great material and inspiration here to try to see what can be done on strings other than 1-2-3 as well. This really helps me begin to see the fretboard differently. Thanks so much! I would love to see a video follow-up on the Application of Triads too as you mentioned at the close of this video. I am going to download your "Learn how to create solos using chord fragments on guitar" eBook as well. So much good material. I am so glad I stumbled upon your teaching several weeks ago.

This lesson make sense thanks for making it so simple

Really great lesson! My greatest tip for others is to have a basic knowledge of the notes of the fretboard. It is the most recent lesson I've learned and what I've been practicing for the past week. And now knowing the triads complements that knowledge really well. It helps learning the fretboard more, and that helps me in locating these triads. Really mind blown as a beginner!

Crystal clear explanation, this is opening a whole new world. Thank you. 6 shapes for major and minor, per group of 3 consecutive strings. The combine that to express myself using variations from the classic chords. That's amazing. Very Big thank you. I have hours of work and experiment on the pipe now.

So glad I decided to watch this video in its entirety. Another tool added to my toolbag😊

Excellent lesson! Thank you!

I have only been playing about a year and this is just fantastic

Thank you,, Simon. I've just stumbled on to your site. Great tutorial on learning & applying triads. More please?

Man I’m glad I’ve seen this. I can add it to my playing in producing and live playing. This is a God send!!!! Bless you kind sir!!!

Best triad lesson I've found. Many thanks.

Yes more about triads please, I know a little but there is a lot more great information in this lesson. Chord progressions for practising triads is definitely something I'm going to do now so thanks

As a guitar teacher I have to say Excellent Lesson!! Besides incorporating your approach I’ll make it a point to refer my students to your RU-vid channel. Thank you for sharing this.

This was so very helpful,thank you!

Finally a systematic approach that makes sense to me. Thank you.

Awesome af. The first ever video that made sense

This is the most helpful video on triads I’ve found so far. Thanks so much

Excellent lesson. Thank you

Wow, major lightbulb moment here, thank you so much for posting this, really opened my eyes to triads.

Thank you for taking the time to present this lesson. I've been looking for instruction on triads and this is exactly what I have been hoping to find. Presented very clearly and sequentially, this video is awesome!

What a huge eye opener...tyvm

Great lesson Simon. Your careful deliberate explanation is easy to understand and use. Thank you for taking the time to create this video for us. Please continue making these to help us improve our guitar skills.

Fantastic lesson and tabs - thank you

Thank you very much Simon .... This truly is the first time I have understood these shapes and positions and basically how to use them.. Now I need to practive them all. Please tell me more about how I can learn more about the same type of thing for the other sets of strings ( i.e. strings 2,3, and4 .. strings 3,4 and 5 ...and also strings 4,5, and 6). Again, thank you very much for you help ...I have learned a lot!! LaMar Kemp

Great lesson. I would love to see your lesson on using triads, especially on the top 3 strings to solo. Thanks for your very clear lesson.

Terrific. Thank you for relating the triad shapes to chord inversions. Immensely helpful.

After all the videos on triads that I watch you're the one that I can understand and made me want to take my guitar and play. Best explanation ever. Thanks a lot. (I would give 10 likes if I could)

Wow this is an incredible video thank you so much

the easiest and very well explained !👍

Wow. Thank you kindly for this. This is the first triad lesson I've watched that really went beyond the basics of fingering and explained the why at level appropriate for the beginner/intermediate guitarist. This is really going to help me understand the fretboard and chord relationships at a deeper level. Time to get to work, lol.

Very clear ..well explained . thank you for video

Lots of good information on triads that cover the neck in a variety of areas. I would love to learn more.

By far the best lesson🎉

this is wonderful.. triad is one of the dry subject for me, but this is the best lesson so far.. subs!

Excellent lesson on triads, presented in an easy to understand manner. thank you

Excellent. Thank you from St Louis , Missouri USA. I thank you mate .🎸❤️😎

First time I have understood triads! Thank you.

Well, I just have to say that is a phenomenal presentation integrating theory with the ability to play. And oh boy I have a lot of work to do to learn it. I’ve been playing for nine years, and now I understand triads with first and second and versions. And I want to learn more!

Thanks, this is innovative and much more musical!

Fantastic video! Thank you.

Great teaching video Thanks

i started with triads and your video popped up. this is fantastic, ill start with 3;2;1 triads. 🙏

The heart of a teacher... thank you sir

Wow so cool exactly what I need to improve my playing. Thanks

great lesson, not just for acoustic folks, works great on electrics too :) your explanation is so good. i feel like i've really learned something

Brilliant lesson, clearest explanation I have come across, this is super helpful. Thanks👍

Great Lessons. Thanks

I've just been studying those chord inversions on the piano I had no idea there's the same thing on the fretboard. :P I mean it's only logical but yes. Thank you for teaching us, this was very understandable. Will take some time to get those shapes and inversions down there's so many of them. Same on the piano. I get a headache often when I try to think about the individual notes but it's really important to know where they are as you pointed out as well.

Very good instruction...thanks for posting

Great video. Thanks for this gem

Excellent lesson!