Triads Essentials: #2 Stacking Form

Triads Essentials is a free weekly guitar lesson series by New York pro and Sherpa Instructor Joe Pinnavaia covering the essentials of triads use, helping you break the typical scale pattern funk that so many of us get caught up in. Stay tuned for more and be sure to subscribe or check out Joe’s Sherpa classroom, the Fusion Funhouse!

Video Guitar Lesson

Chart & Tab

In this lesson I take a look at a concept that I call Triad Stacking. This is taking those three note shapes and place them on top of each other which creates vertical movement on the fretboard.

The PDFs are written in the key of G Major and go through the diatonic positions with both triad shapes. If you look at these as a whole they create arpeggios of the chord scale with extended harmony. This can really spice up lines over open chords like “power” chords or even over major and minor 7 chords.

You can use a Dorian style jam or a chord progression such as A minor to Eminor to practice over. Take your time and you will hear that your lines will want to resolve in a certain way but use your ears and sense of taste to figure out where they want to go.

Until next time – Stay True, Stay on Fire!

Triads Essentials is a free weekly guitar lesson series by New York pro and Sherpa Instructor Joe Pinnavaia covering the essentials of triads use, helping you break the typical scale pattern funk that so many of us get caught up in. Stay tuned for more and be sure to subscribe or check out Joe’s Sherpa classroom, the Fusion Funhouse!