Major Triads on the Top Three Strings, Part 4: Drills

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Learn guitar chord theory in-depth with Mark Goldenberg, a respected touring and session guitarist and a student of the legendary Ted Greene. You'll explore basic major and minor chord inversions all over the neck and on all string sets, as well as wide-triad voicings; harmonized major scales; major, minor, and dominant seventh-chord voicings; and more.

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Top Three Strings

In this lesson, in addition to learning the triad shapes for the key of A and E, Mark talks about learning to hear the separate voices within the chord, instead of just thinking of them as block shapes.

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Top Three Strings

Major Triads on the Top Three Strings, Part 1: Inversions and the Key of C

Major Triads on the Top Three Strings, Part 2: G and D

Major Triads on the Top Three Strings, Part 3: A and E

Major Triads on the Top Three Strings, Part 4: Drills

Now that you’ve learned all the triad voicings on the top three strings for the keys of C, G, D, A, and E, Mark shows you some drills that will really get them under your fingers. You’ll play all the root positions of C, G, D, A, and, E, all the first inversions, all the second inversions, and them some drills that combine the voicings in a C‒G‒D‒A‒E progression in different places on the neck.

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