How to Use Triads for Electric Guitar Solos: Part 1

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Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com, I’m a professional guitar instructor and today I’ll be going over some of the basic rudiments of playing lead guitar or soloing. Alright next it’s important that we discuss major, minor and diminished triads. A major triad is created by combining the first, the third and the fifth note of the major scale, for example in the key of G that will be a G-note…a B-note…and a D-note…or a G, B and a D…to make the major cord the major triad into a minor triad I flat the third, so in the case of G I’d have G, B-flat and D or G, B-flat and D…to make that into a diminished triad I’d flat third and I’d flat the fifth, so I’d have G, B-flat and D-flat or G, B-flat and D-flat. Now these major, minor and diminished triads when strung together in a G-major scale, how we do that is we start off with a G-major triad, okay we have G, B and D, every other note in groups of three, my first note, third note and fifth note of the G-major scale. Moving to my next note the second note of the G-major scale starting on it an A-note, combining every other note of the G-major scale in three starting with my A-note I have A, C and E…doing that on B I have B which gives me an A-minor triad by the way…doing that on B I have B, D, and F-sharp gives me a B-minor triad, doing it on C I have C, E and G gives me a C-major triad, doing it on D I have D, half sharp and A, a D-major triad, doing it on E I have E, G and B an E-minor triad, doing an F-sharp I have F-sharp, A and C which is an F-sharp diminished triad and of course brings me back to my G-major triad, put it altogether in a high octave…

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