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Hear a chord and build it on your instrument. The root is given, so the work is hearing the quality — major or minor, and later the tetrad types — and placing the rest: basic shapes first, then the useful ones, then the inversions.
Triads in a major key on guitar
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Diatonic Triad Harmony
View the degrees of the major scale as roots of triads, so you can build them from any position. This connects harmony to melody and lets you find progressions in any key.
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Diatonic Triad Harmony
View the degrees of the major scale as roots of triads, so you can build them from any position. This connects harmony to melody and lets you find progressions in any key.
Build Shapes. Hear a chord and build it on your instrument, root given How it works →
On the guitar: six strings in standard tuning, the first twelve frets.
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