Brian, I am sure that you work hard putting together your lessons, but you put across concept's in such a friendly, relaxed manner. Absolutely no ego to get in the way, you are a natural teacher. Thank you
Absolutely the most important lesson for me and so easy to understand because of Brians amazing kind of teaching! To learn the connection between triads and the pentatonic shapes is pure gold. Yes, it‘s all there, but sometimes you don‘t realize it, until someone like Brian points it out.
Fantastic! Caught on right away. Other "teachers" should watch this instead of trying to confuse us with complicated study templates that only make us want to give up and toss the guitar in the trash. Really appreciate this video. Thanks a bunch.
Since I discovered the lower triads, I’ve expanded my playing a lot. This video has expanded my understanding a lot. The 6, 7, and 9th variations are all new to me. Very good lesson - thanks. I am very interested in the minor triads. I have the upper triads on them, but you add so much more information that would be great.
I started watching your videos earlier this week. I've been playing guitar for many years and hit a hurdle with advancing to the "Next Level" . So far I've only seen 2 of your videos and I gotta say you are the Best Instructor I've came across on RU-vid. Your guitar lessons explains what I've been trying to "Figure Out" for years. Big Thanks and keep the videos coming.
I wish that someone had given me this lesson 50 years ago when I was in high school first learning to play guitar. Thanks for doing this very nice lesson!
Just wanted to reiterate what others of said here that this is hands down a GREAT lesson! Especially for those that know some CAGED method but were having some trouble putting it all together and seeing the triads within the shapes. I've probably watched it 10 times now and will watch another 10 to make sure it sinks is. Thank you Brain!
Excellent🤩. Superbly integrated from introduction to improvisation. There's never been such a detail and yet easy to digest lesson on triad. Thank you so much...🤝👍👍👍🙂
I'm totally overwhelmed by your style of teaching, explaining tough spots but most of all i love your feeling of music. I am great fan of your blues lessons.
I have just started playing again after a decades long break, trying to get my fingers back! Very grateful to have Found "Active Melody". I'm rededicating myself back to my favorite thing, Music. Oh, how I've missed it
This is great. In front of my eyes and ears for years, yet I could not see it .... until now. Thank you very much , you perfected the art of doing the most out of those little triads.
Just recently rediscovered your channel and I think you're one of the best explainers and dot-connectors out there! Absolutely perfect for where I'm at in my guitar journey. Light bulbs are exploding 🤘🤘, thank you for putting these up!
Thank you. Thank you. GREAT lesson. I've rewatched it about 6 times to try and soak it all in. Great stuff. I've been fighting with understanding/implementing CAGED for 15 years. I think you cracked it for me. Forever grateful. :)
You sir... Are a great teacher of music. It is much much appreciated. I learned allot from this video. Thank you for your craft and the work you've put in on your playing
Whoa !....this is truly a mind blowing video...thank you Brian for doing such an amazing job unpacking these triads and integrating them into the pentatonics i've been learning.
oh man. I want to drop 20 likes. thank you. great video. I was just learning triads and this lesson came at the perfect time. I feel so enlightened. the 1-4-5 exercises and the "improvisation" at the end are perfect to practice on. cheers!
Brian, I think this is the most important lesson you have ever created. This is the foundation every guitar player needs to start to integrate the fretboard and become a more advanced player.
Not matter how much I think I know about something, I ALWAYS learn something new from your lessons and that's just from watching them! This lesson has excellent practice materials and it's a MUST STUDY for me and should be for most! Sticking with Active Melody as a PREMIUM member is the answer! 👌💕
Just wish you would start the lesson playing an example using the triads to demonstrate how they are used in an actual song instead of waiting to see an application 10 minuets into the lesson.
I really had to grab my guitar to follow this lesson. Its very informative, thank you. I see the need to memorize the relationship between shape/triad progressions versus root, fourth and fitfth note of the scale we're playing. I see possibilities of starting to memorize notes of the fretboard for root notes on the first 3 strings and practice these triad progressions in different ways. I think its patience and time, and will pay long term for sure. One thing I've noticed if that you used the term "C" shape while you were playing a "D" shape from CAGE"D" system, I am still stuck on it.
Thanks again Brian this was very informative and I found it easy to follow ,I give thumbs up for minor lesson next ,saying that this lesson will take me hours to practice. ,
Nice job brian. Just one additional lightbulb regarding the sixth chord. The shape is easy to remember as it is always the shape of the relative minor. EG: G6 = Emin C6=Am D6=Bmin.
If you are an intermediate guitarists and you are stuck and feel like you haven't progressed this is the most important lesson you could possibly take the time to study... Triads unlock ao much neck potential and the ways you can arrange them are unlimited...
What an amazing lesson. I'm only just starting out to learn triads, but was already wondering 'whats the point' (apart from I can now play slightly different voicings of chords, and it has helped massivley in learning notes on the neck). This has energized me and given me some direction. :)
I focused on the major and minor triads, once I got it in my one and only brain cell. I went to the others. I have the Triad sheet pdf you made for us premium members. Ty Brian
I’ve found it quicker and practically more useful to learn the whole arpeggio of each chord. You see the the bigger picture more clearly and more quickly .
I missed the part about what makes an upper or lower triad. Is it when the root note is closer to the nut that's an upper triad, and when the root note is closer to the bridge, that's a lower triad? I'm a new member and appreciate your teaching method; thank you.
Of course there is an interest in minor chords... Also for one blending minor and dominant, in a minor context (if I am making myself understood anyway...) 😇
Brian, at 22:35 when you went to the 4 chord (C) then added the box 4 pentatonic scale could you have just as easily used box 3 instead? I'm still trying to work out which pentatonic box (1 thru 5) works best with which cords, e.g., the 1, 4 and/or 5 chords. Is what you're doing by going to the box 4 simply a preference closest to the 4-chord neighborhood or you consider box-4 pentatonic better suited to the 4-chord you used at 22:35? Great lesson. Definitely hope you will do a future minor triad lesson similar to this one.
Neat trick, sliding the maj 6 chord down two frets to get a 9th chord. It's worth noting that the 9th chord is a non-root dominant chord and lacks the major 3rd. In other words, it has a 9th, a 5th, and a minor 7th. I worked my way through this because it seemed unintuitive that the trick would work.
Most students will not appreciate the magic of this lesson, as it looks simple, and just there on YT for them. We now have access to the greatest music teachers I've seen in decades. I still can't believe such masterpiece courses are available "just like that" on YT. Fantastic lesson.
