Guitar triads made easy using CAGED | Pickup Music

Join the remarkable Dr. Molly Miller as she explains the magic of triads within the CAGED system. This 10-minute lesson is jam-packed with useful information for any guitarist who wants to master the fretboard.
In this lesson, you'll learn some fundamental triad shapes, their inversions, and how they seamlessly connect across the neck. Perfect for guitarists at any level, these exercises are designed to improve your basic music theory, enhance your fretboard visualization, and hopefully inspire some new ideas.
By the end of this tutorial, you'll know a little more about the importance of triads and how to understand how they connect to scales.
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Chapter:
00:29 Why learn triads?
01:30 Exercise 1
03:37 Exercise 2
05:35 Exercise 3

[@Pickupjazz]

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[@CFChristian]

Dang I'm glad to have stumbled on this.

[@Pickupjazz]

Glad you're here too! 🤘

[@vvgmhod4]

Excellent perspective, looking down on the fretboard. I wish more CZcams instructors would do this.

[@Pickupjazz]

We find it to be helpful! Glad you do too! 🤘

[@TheBlackStrat502]

Great visuals on the connections. All this stuff should be taught together. Triads. Arpeggios. Match it to the appropriate major/minor scales and it’s just magic. Literally all right there. Take my like AND subscribed. Well done. Thank you.

[@Pickupjazz]

Thanks so much and for subscribing! Welcome! 🤘

[@trusarmor4957]

i watched your hour long CAGED video like 10 x.
great job, and thank you

[@ellenhenderson6865]

Me, too.
Only remember one shape though.

[@rickington1]

Love your videos. Great teaching style. Thanks for sharing.

[@Pickupjazz]

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching! 🤘

[@ATAsgard1]

Best CAGED and triad lesson I've ever seen.

[@Pickupjazz]

🙏

[@dharris1234]

Fantastic lesson! Would you be able to do a caged triad lesson using the minor triads? Also, do you use the C shape very often?

[@Elvis-dw7ux]

Excellent!!! Cheers from Canada...

[@tazador793]

True educator, excellent class

[@Pickupjazz]

Thanks!

[@roblee-ox1og]

you have a great teaching presence!

[@Pickupjazz]

Glad to hear that!

[@gergemall]

Really enjoyed this video ❤

[@Pickupjazz]

Thanks! 😊

[@wilsonchen3557]

So far the easy and clearest demonstration

[@Pickupjazz]

Thanks so much!

[@petervad]

brilliant. Thank you!

[@Pickupjazz]

🤘

[@FreeMissions]

This is awesome. I learned the caged system a long time ago but no one ever really showed me how it's useful. Please do a video three!

[@Pickupjazz]

Noted! 🫡

[@johnwillard6198]

That guitar ! ❤

[@luisky0324]

Thanks for the sharing ma'am!👍💓💓💓💓

[@Pickupjazz]

Thanks for watching!

[@kanjinha]

Hi, can some😢confirm that there’s adoption to flip the board to a lefty? On their website I mean. Thanks

[@rizalomar4377]

❤

[@keijotoivonen3988]

Gooooöd!

[@1man1guitarletsgo]

Brilliant! _"See the shapes."_ For those of us who don't read music (well me, certainly), shapes on the fretboard is how we work. Anyone learning guitar, who thinks that reading music or tab is essential, should watch this video. You need only read the fretboard.

[@JerryCappuccino]

Hi- Thanks for the video What Are the 4 chords you are playing?

[@armandosinger]

Do you mean what are the names of these triad chords? Because she’s plying the root, 3, and 5, the chord quality is major (minor chords have a b3). If you look the root note in the diagram, the root note is always D, so these are all variants of the D major chord. But some are inversions. Pattern 2 is R (lowest), 3, 5, so that is plain D major (D F# A). Pattern 3 is 3, 5, R (F# D A) so that is D/F# because F# is the lowest note. Pattern 1 is 5, R, 3 (A D F#) so that is D/A because the A is the lowest note. So you only have 3 chords here: D, D/F#, and D/A. So D major and it’s 2 inversions. The 4th chord is the exact same as chord 1, just 1 octave higher (also D/A)-same notes and same shape.

[@VladoBelo]

👍🤘

[@johnharris7244]

What guitar are you playing. Thanks

[@1man1guitarletsgo]

According to Premier Guitar's rig rundown on Molly, it's a Taylor T3.

[@johnharris7244]

@@1man1guitarletsgo thank you for that.

[@mmgull]

Should paint my nails too to sound better.

[@thevoiceofrevelation92]

Ive been playing 40 years..NOW i find this out..

[@Pickupjazz]

💅🏼

[@bigbrianusa]

absolutely no idea

[@jackfromthe60s]

You need to do more study in that case. You'll get there eventually.

[@marceli155]

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[@jackfromthe60s]

You didn't understand this lesson? It was an excellent lesson on learning triads.

[@PaulJohnLeonard]

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