Triad Harmony

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Hear, build, and identify major and minor triads harmonically, in various shapes. Major and minor triads are about 80% of the chords in popular music — the home base of harmony. Learn to tell major and minor apart by sound and to play them in the many ways.

Why

  • Major and minor triads are about 80% of the chords you'll encounter — build and hear them, and harmony has a home

  • Playing them harmonically in different ways makes your progressions more interesting and gives you more ways to connect harmony to melody

The path

  1. Build Basic Shapes
  2. Build Useful Shapes
  3. Build Inversions
  4. Pick Roots
  5. Pick Chords

On the instrument

Triads on the Instrument