Triads: Everything You Need To Know.
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Triads are the foundation of harmony is so many kinds of music around the world and across cultures. If you need to brush up on any concepts covered in the video, be sure to check out the videos below, especially major scales, minor scales, key signatures, and intervals.
Check out my other videos here:
Major Scales - • Major scales: Everythi...
Minor Scales - • Minor Scales - Everyth...
Key Signatures(new) - • Key Signatures: Everyt...
Circle of Fifths - • Circle of Fifths: Ever...
Intervals Part I - • Intervals: Part I - Ha...
Intervals Part II - • Intervals: Part II - T...
Concert Pitch and Transposing Instruments - • What is concert pitch,...
How to Play 3000% Faster - • Play 3000% Faster in J...
3000% Faster Playalong Video - • How To Play 3000% Fast...
Note Naming - • Note Naming: Everythin...
Dynamics - • Dynamics: Everything Y...
Modes - • Musical Modes: Everyth...
Parallel Scales - • Modifying the Major Sc...
Key Signatures(original 2018) - • Key Signatures - Every...
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I can’t believe you were able to pack all that in under 10 minutes. I’ve watched hundreds of music theory videos and this is top 3 for sure. I plan on watching it over and over until this is second nature. Thank you!
Excellent! Glad to hear it was helpful!
Agree this is so clear and concise. So much easier to follow than other CZcams Lessons. I'll also be re-watching.
Thank you!
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I don't understand why your videos don't all have 1M likes. They are incredible! Thanks for taking the time to create them (and share).
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Thank you for sharing this video. I have watched only two of your videos and learned more about some of the more obscure musical concepts in a few minutes than studying on my own for years. I have asked many people about augmented and diminished chords, but none of them seemed to really know what this meant exactly. This is the biggest step forward in music for me since teaching myself how to read basic notation. It is like a key to open doors that have been locked for a long time. You have a way of making complicated concepts understandable to regular people. Thank you!
Well said, and I agree!
I agree completely....like I said above, it was an epiphany moment.
Thank you! As a self-taught pianist, this is really helpful.
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I get to answer all questions in my Grade 5 Music theory exam just by watching all of your videos....on a last minute study(a week study or so). Thanks for the quick and clear explanation.
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Where have you been all my life my love? Please keep up these lessons. I've been playing my whole life and composing last 5 and these are like a good reminder on how to! Just amazing.
Excellent explanation. it takes me a while to understand. Thanks from California.
Saving this...subscribing and starting from the major scale. Played music for 30 years lol. Spins me out every time how mathematical and pattern like it all seems.
Honestly you taught me more than my professor. Thank you 😢❤❤
This technique really works. It's incredible really. I'll go back to super slow on a difficult piece of music and the next day I can play it so much faster. It's magic!
Thank you very much. I wont fail tests on triads anymore
You really explained this very well. I had to listen to it multiple times to grasp it all, but I finally got it. Thank goodness CZcams has a setting to slow down the video, that helped immensely. But I've been trying to get this triad thing down for a few weeks - using several apps; video games and I'm in a class. I just wasn't able to lock it in. But just like when you have to tap a jar lid multiple times, and have different people to try and open it - you have the magic touch! I'm very appreciative of this lesson. I've LIKED, SUBSCRIBED and I'll be back tomorrow for more.
I really enjoy your sense of humor and learn a lot from your videos. Wish CZcams was there when I was a teenager, back in seventies...
I appreciate you, sir. Been watching several of your uploads. Excellent material and production, thereof. Thank you.
Best triad explanation so far! Thank you
This video is brilliant. A load has become clear. Thank you so much
Merci for this. I'm still beginning my musical journey and am new to key signatures and notation. So I'll be coming back to this one. BTW even though it was out of my pay grade, I still understood the concepts. Very well described.
Love the interspersed humor. the content is great. Subscribed.
A great way to learn or be taught. This is making a lot of sense.
What a fun, easy to learn but thorought masterclass. Thanks Brad for your help, I'm a self-taught guitarist and these videos will help me go through the basics, along with Rick Beato's help! Suscribed and I hope you get many more suscribers for the great job you're doing. Big hug.
Thank u for the lessons in few min ...it is very helpful to understand!
Wow, thank you for sharing. Finally I understood everything
greatly explained! Now i could know how to smartly play and produce music
Correction: the 'III' chord in the C minor Harmonic scale is *Eb aug* , not *E aug* (1:30, 7:23, 8:38)
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Glad you enjoyed! Please do! Lots of other similar content on the channel.
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I love your videos they're super helpful. Can you please do a video on realizing figured bass so I don't fail this unit in my theory class :'(
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4:42 top right corner, very nice :)
Wow!!! This was so helpful! Curious, what application did you use to make this video?
This helped a lot. I learned piano during lockdown, took a break, and I got confused on inversions. I eventually could figure out what notes to press for those chords, but not what they are called.
Good for you for taking on such a project! Fwiw, I have two videos on note naming if you want to patch up that little hole in your knowledge. It’s not to hard a thing to learn and helps a lot with reading and communication among musicians.
learnt a lot from the video you can also view a similar video i made and advice me oh how to make better music lessons. czcams.com/video/ZaMc-LZYBsU/video.html
Thanks you so much. Could you teach modulations and variations
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Yeah, this pretty much just blew my mind. I would prefer that it was at about 75% of the speed which it was...but it just means I have to stop it and digest it a bit more than usual, but still....it's like an epiphany, and you're the first one to explain it in a way that I at least, could understand. It REALLY is a terrific explanation, and should be taught to young musicians, or young in their journey at least. I think I just developed exponentially in my understanding of cords and especially triads. Thank You. I'm your newest subscriber.
Thanks so much! Glad you found it helpful! I know they’re fast, but I personally like an overview so I can dig into the details when necessary. And everyone comes to this stuff with different levels of prior knowledge, so it’s impossible to nail the speed. Really, it’s just simple patterns that take not much effort to learn, but a lot of effort to apply to all the keys. And the second time you watch the video always makes more sense anyway!
Oh I agree...I've saved it and will refer to it often until I know it as well as you offered it. FYI, I just Googled What's a triad, and Voila`. Joining as we type. @@BradHarrison
You can adjust the video speed to 75%, which is what I do. It sounds a little funny but I can keep up better.
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Thank you for this well-organised and animated information.
Do you think of triads only as close positions ?
I.e. would you refer to C G E (1 5 3) as a triad ? Or would you keep this term only for the three close positions of 3 notes chords (135, 351, 513) ?
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Do you have charts that you can download?
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Interesting. It took me years to realise that Western music is based on intervals of the chromatic scale. Scales are simply sequences of intervals that contain but do not define triads.
A major triad is a major third followed by a minor third. Major third is 4 half steps minor third is three half steps a 7 is simply another minor third.
A minor triad is a minor third followed by a major third.
These shapes apply to any Root and do not depend on scales rather scales depend on them.
All scales are a specific pattern of intervals be they pentatonic, blues, classical, diminished, 6 diminished and so on.
Learn the pattern and you are home.
I had often wondered why some excellent theory books such as Mark Levine's start with intervals. I finally cracked it by realising that one chord can appear all over the place. Then I read Rick Beato's book page one - confirmed. Could have saved my self a lot of confusion.
Underrated channel I found randomly. Very useful videos 👍
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Thank a bunch... Sure would like to learn how to put chords together for songs.
There are so many songs that follow the exactly same chords(because they’re awesome and work super well), don’t feel like you need to reinvent harmony for your first couple dozen songs. What you put on top of the chords is what really matters. Start by jamming it out on some tried and true progressions. Check out “axis of awesome four chord song” and “the pachelbel rant”. So many great songs on the same chords.
New subscriber here. Hope u will continue to upload a video about music or reading notes
I’ve got one on note naming! Working on a “how to learn a piece of music” vid.
Thank you so much for making and sharing the very helpful videos. Can we buy printed copies of the slides you use for your videos? Some CZcams music instructors sell them through Patreon. Did not see any options for purchasing printed copies on your Patreon link.
No, no plans for that at the moment. Maybe something to think about though. Glad you’re enjoying the videos though!
@@BradHarrison Thank you for your reply.
can you please do a video on the length of note? like how long a quarter note should be, or what is the time length of a beat, and also explain the different types of time signatures, like 6/8,
Rhythm and counting is definitely in my todo list!
Absolutely great. But it is possible that in our country (in Europe) the brands differ, because in several cases I do not find the right notation in the music notation. :)
God this saved me just in time for an exam!
Excellent!
Amazing video! Any chance you can make a video about 7th chords? Thanks
Yes! I’m planning to work on jazz theory and improvisation over the course of the year. Probably starting in the spring.
the pun at the end made me laugh more then it should have
Informative, but ultimately overwhelming. I (sort of) play keyboards, but don’t read music- so although I got the theory ok the constant references to the sharps/flats on the stave was confusing. Brief cutaways to a keyboard were very welcome!
Please feel free to pause whenever you need to and inspect the visuals! Not everyone is at the same reading level, but the pause button is a power we can all enjoy. Good luck!
Nice
The shape is what counts
i love this video, very hip with today's generation humor yet very informative, thank you!
Another way of explaining triad variations...don't forget the snowman!
Hey quick question at 1:30 for the Cm scale, wouldn’t the Gmaj chord be Gm because the Cm scale has a Bb?
At that point we’re using the harmonic minor scale, so it’s a B natural. G major.
Hi, I'm a little confused. The other combinations of 3ds and 5ths described in 4:00 are not considered triads?
Also, I saw other video that said triads are also named after the highest pitched note in the chord as "first (fundamental is the highest pitched), second (third is) and third position (fifth note is)"
Major, minor, diminished, and augmented are the four classical triads. They’re the only combinations that you can write as two stacked thirds. There are other three note chords, like sus2 and sus4, but they’re not usually considered triads.
Triads, and all chords,are named for the bottom note. The quality is named for the intervals between the other notes.
@@BradHarrison Alright thank you so much 👍🏻
Is there something inherently advantageous to describing triads as a third and a fifth versus as a stack of thirds?
Not really. I just made a choice to try to simplify the concept. It’s easier to analyze two intervals from the same root(a third and a fifth) rather than two stacked thirds(each of which as a different root). And I knew people with more theory experience would probably know the stacked thirds angle anyway. You get the same answer but I think my way is just a bit more accessible for beginners, which is the whole point of these videos.
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great vid, but i still left with a question unanswered, (i did learn some other stuff though 😆) what does it mean when a roman numeral has a flat or sharp sign next to it, are they diminished, augmented? ples hlep mei.
That sounds like figured bass. It’s a whole topic unto itself. I haven’t done a video on it because it’s not commonly used these days, but lots of other people have if you want to look it up. Good luck!
Is there any logic behind the Roman numerals for figured bass? You know, I 6 is first inversion? Why?
There is definitely a reason! For first inversion, say E on the bottom of a C triad, it’s a sixth from the bottom note to the next note, E up to C. It’s a weird system but maybe it would be more intuitive if we all spent more time in it. Or maybe it’s not the best system and that’s why it mostly didn’t survive the baroque era. ;-)
@@BradHarrison Thanks for explaining that. I think spending time with it would be the only way to fully understand. I wonder why they called it figured bass when it is intended for chordal instruments. Anyway, you're doing a great job!
Como eu gostaria que fosse em português Brasil.
Seria ótimo
00:14 snow guy has a 2nd carrot a bit down in the body :v Anyways amazing video love it
That was so good... 🥴
Does augmented mean sharpened and diminished flattened? And is it always the 5th? Asking for a friend lol
Augmented is indeed always a maj3 and aug5(or major triad with raised fifth) and diminished is always min3 and dim5(or major chord or lowered third and fifth).
hey guys I have a question:
I play the Cmaj and then for the next chord I play the third, semitone higher, and the fifth, a tone higher I don't understand what it is but it sounds good. is it an inversion?
Sounds like you’re playing C F A which is F major second inversion. If you stack it in a snowman(F A C) the chord becomes a little easier to identify. It’s a super common chordal movement and sounds really great, either to move back and forth between those two or to continue on to another chord(try moving to G major, A minor, or D minor next).
@@BradHarrison thank you sooo much yeah it sounds so good. I'll do it I appreciate your content so much.