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!!
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.
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.
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❤️
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)
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.
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 🙏
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 RU-vid in my opinion. Thanks
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 🤟🏻
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
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
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
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?
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.
@@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
@@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.
@@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.
