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Guitar Gym: Triad Workouts
Triad arpeggio exercises to take your playing to the next level.
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About this course
In this edition of Guitar Gym, it’s all about getting those elusive melodic devices under your fingers. Split into three leveled sections, these workouts guide you through a comprehensive, rigorous practice regimen designed to get these essential playing elements solidified and ready to build on. Buono will guide you through 27 Workouts across 3 levels. The workouts are organized into 3-tempo s sets (slow, medium, fast) each with an accompanying overview video where Buono explains the ins and outs for practicing the workouts. Each Workout is also clearly laid out for you in Guitar Pro, which can also be adjusted to any tempo. Buono will perform each workout on video (in various views) for the prescribed amount of time and so you’ll always have your coach there to playalong with and sweat it all out with in Guitar Gym.
Each Guitar Gym course focuses on a specific guitar technique by guiding the student through a deliberately prescribed series of optimized workouts, organized across a series of levels with increasing intensity. Buono demonstrates each of the workouts by explaining how the workout is engineered and then showing you how to play the workout correctly.
The workouts are ALL interactive video playalongs -- Buono performs each workout with you, for the correct amount of time, at all of the prescribed tempos. You will not be alone in the shed!
All of the workouts also include text guides, PDF charts, Guitar Pro files and all of the practice metronome tracks, at all of the prescribed tempos. Everything you need to develop monster chops by practicing correctly is included.
Practice does NOT make perfect -- "perfect" practice does. We've heard this time and again from our instructors and we get it; practice the wrong thing, or practice the wrong way, and you'll learn how to play it perfectly wrong. Makes "perfect" sense but what exactly do we practice, and how specifically do we practice it? TrueFire's resident Professor of the Deep, Chris Buono has invested the last couple of decades coming up with the answer.
Developing solid guitar techniques is particularly subject to the quality and intensity of your practice regimens -- you'll only get so far relying on repetition and frequency alone. Chris Buono's Guitar Gym workouts will take you the rest of the way with 12 collections of tried, tested and proven intensive workouts for Triad Arpeggios, Tapping, Hybrid Picking, Alternate Picking, Hammers & Pull-Offs, Power Chords, Scales, Speed Picking,Triads, Harmonic Minor Triad Chord Scales, Major Triad Chord Scales and Melodic Minor Triad Chord Scales
Guitar Gym -- your path to "perfect" chops!
Each Guitar Gym course focuses on a specific guitar technique by guiding the student through a deliberately prescribed series of optimized workouts, organized across a series of levels with increasing intensity. Buono demonstrates each of the workouts by explaining how the workout is engineered and then showing you how to play the workout correctly.
The workouts are ALL interactive video playalongs -- Buono performs each workout with you, for the correct amount of time, at all of the prescribed tempos. You will not be alone in the shed!
All of the workouts also include text guides, PDF charts, Guitar Pro files and all of the practice metronome tracks, at all of the prescribed tempos. Everything you need to develop monster chops by practicing correctly is included.
Practice does NOT make perfect -- "perfect" practice does. We've heard this time and again from our instructors and we get it; practice the wrong thing, or practice the wrong way, and you'll learn how to play it perfectly wrong. Makes "perfect" sense but what exactly do we practice, and how specifically do we practice it? TrueFire's resident Professor of the Deep, Chris Buono has invested the last couple of decades coming up with the answer.
Developing solid guitar techniques is particularly subject to the quality and intensity of your practice regimens -- you'll only get so far relying on repetition and frequency alone. Chris Buono's Guitar Gym workouts will take you the rest of the way with 12 collections of tried, tested and proven intensive workouts for Triad Arpeggios, Tapping, Hybrid Picking, Alternate Picking, Hammers & Pull-Offs, Power Chords, Scales, Speed Picking,Triads, Harmonic Minor Triad Chord Scales, Major Triad Chord Scales and Melodic Minor Triad Chord Scales
Guitar Gym -- your path to "perfect" chops!
What you'll learn
- Understand chord movement across the neck
- Develop smooth chord transitions
- Develop muscle memory for different chord qualities
- develop systematic practice approach
- build muscle memory across different skill levels
Release date: 10/21/2012 • 2h 34m runtime
Sample lessons
Triads: Level 1
Workout #3: Overview
Triads: Level 1
Workout #3: 40 BPM
Triads: Level 2
Workout #1: Overview
Triads: Level 2
Workout #1: 80 BPM
What's included
42 lessons • 27 charts • 36 Jam Tracks
Guitar Gym: Triads
Chops: Our heroes have them and we all want them. In order to get them you gotta do what any other person training to better themselves in some way would do - get to the gym! Well, that's exactly what you’re going to do - welcome to the Guitar Gym series. No matter what level you're at or if you have various strong and weak points in your technique, Guitar Gym has you covered. Each course is comprised of a collection of leveled workouts waiting for you to dig into.
Here in Guitar Gym Triads those infamous three-note chord voicings that seem to pop up in just about every style of music. Split into three leveled sections Guitar Gym Triads throws you right into the fire with these close (or closed) voiced grips in their three configurations – root position, 1st inversion and 2nd inversion. Each level is split up into three workouts made up of 13 video segments starting with the overview where I'll give you a quick synopsis of what's in store. The following 12 videos are the three workouts further split up into three tempos - slow, medium, fast - that all have an accompanying introduction video where I explain the ins and outs on how to play the workout. Each workout is clearly laid out for you in Power Tab and will be readily available for you to download right from the TrueFire player. In the three actual workout videos I will play through the workout for the amount of time I prescribe in the overview and introduction videos so you always have me right there with you (in various views) as you sweat it all out here in Guitar Gym. At the heart of any drilling regimen including this one is precise timing. It not only keeps things orderly in all aspects of music, but it also serves as a guide and indicator as to how you're progressing. What's more, anyone who has been in the chops shed knows that one of the most important practices is to increase the tempo incrementally one-by-one. While the three parts of each workout will be presented in a slow-medium-fast fashion in regards to tempo, it's up to you to take the workout into your own shed and incrementally up the tempo while you practice, preparing you for the next tempo mark. Dig? Ready!? Let's do it to it!
Here in Guitar Gym Triads those infamous three-note chord voicings that seem to pop up in just about every style of music. Split into three leveled sections Guitar Gym Triads throws you right into the fire with these close (or closed) voiced grips in their three configurations – root position, 1st inversion and 2nd inversion. Each level is split up into three workouts made up of 13 video segments starting with the overview where I'll give you a quick synopsis of what's in store. The following 12 videos are the three workouts further split up into three tempos - slow, medium, fast - that all have an accompanying introduction video where I explain the ins and outs on how to play the workout. Each workout is clearly laid out for you in Power Tab and will be readily available for you to download right from the TrueFire player. In the three actual workout videos I will play through the workout for the amount of time I prescribe in the overview and introduction videos so you always have me right there with you (in various views) as you sweat it all out here in Guitar Gym. At the heart of any drilling regimen including this one is precise timing. It not only keeps things orderly in all aspects of music, but it also serves as a guide and indicator as to how you're progressing. What's more, anyone who has been in the chops shed knows that one of the most important practices is to increase the tempo incrementally one-by-one. While the three parts of each workout will be presented in a slow-medium-fast fashion in regards to tempo, it's up to you to take the workout into your own shed and incrementally up the tempo while you practice, preparing you for the next tempo mark. Dig? Ready!? Let's do it to it!
Working Out in the Gym
Developing great chops is not about just mindlessly drilling an exercise over and over. There has to be a method to the madness.
First and foremost you need to create what I call in my Guitar Gym Sherpa classroom a Workout Schedule. My Workout Schedules carve out a set amount of time on set days of the week that slot out precisely what it your going to play. This helps big time and results are inspiring to say the least! And, this is not as much time as you might expect. If you're working on just one skill such as the one here in this course you need but 15-30 minutes a day depending on how many workouts you want to drill down. That said, you could set it up so you do a morning and evening session. The key is focused, disciplined practice time with a metronome. Just stick to your "WS" and let your fingers do the rest!
Speaking of focus and discipline when starting to put together your own WS keep this mantra in mind: You absolutely must start out playing the workouts slow and gradually climb up the tempo ladder to the top tempo tier. No ifs, ands or lazy butts about it. Even if you think you can play the workout at the medium tempo, trust me, knock it down to the lowest tier and build. You may be masking playing anomalies you don't even know are there by jumping into passages at a medium to high tempo. Slowing down what you're playing will reveal what you may need to work on. Do it!
Not only does starting out at the lowest tempo tier ensure you'll get the most out of your practice time, but it will also help to prevent any injuries. Notice I mentioned 15-30 minute workout schedules, spaced out if you want to do more, and not marathon sessions. Playing in reasonable blocks of time is a much safer way to build your muscle memory as well as help you attain the ultimate skill in playing proficiently on the guitar: The art of relaxation. If you're relaxed and keeping your practice time calculated and spaced out, you'll be safely successful.
First and foremost you need to create what I call in my Guitar Gym Sherpa classroom a Workout Schedule. My Workout Schedules carve out a set amount of time on set days of the week that slot out precisely what it your going to play. This helps big time and results are inspiring to say the least! And, this is not as much time as you might expect. If you're working on just one skill such as the one here in this course you need but 15-30 minutes a day depending on how many workouts you want to drill down. That said, you could set it up so you do a morning and evening session. The key is focused, disciplined practice time with a metronome. Just stick to your "WS" and let your fingers do the rest!
Speaking of focus and discipline when starting to put together your own WS keep this mantra in mind: You absolutely must start out playing the workouts slow and gradually climb up the tempo ladder to the top tempo tier. No ifs, ands or lazy butts about it. Even if you think you can play the workout at the medium tempo, trust me, knock it down to the lowest tier and build. You may be masking playing anomalies you don't even know are there by jumping into passages at a medium to high tempo. Slowing down what you're playing will reveal what you may need to work on. Do it!
Not only does starting out at the lowest tempo tier ensure you'll get the most out of your practice time, but it will also help to prevent any injuries. Notice I mentioned 15-30 minute workout schedules, spaced out if you want to do more, and not marathon sessions. Playing in reasonable blocks of time is a much safer way to build your muscle memory as well as help you attain the ultimate skill in playing proficiently on the guitar: The art of relaxation. If you're relaxed and keeping your practice time calculated and spaced out, you'll be safely successful.
Triads: Level 1
Throughout these Level 1 workouts, you'll find yourself playing triads vertically across the neck in root position as well as 1st and 2nd inversions in the four primary sounds - major, minor, diminished and augmented. This will get you properly acquainted with playing closed voiced triads on every string set!
Triads: Level 1
This first workout will have you playing root position shapes across the neck vertically in two different positions. You'll start out in the V position where all the roots will be played on the 5th fret. Be mindful of the fingering changes when you play the top two chords where the B-string is involved (that will always throw a wrench in fingering schemes). Once you make it to the top string set you'll then shift up two-and-a-half steps or a perfect 5th to the X and IX positions where you'll descend the same triads.
Just like any other set of changes be sure to look and think ahead, try to grab the fingering in the air before coming down on the strings and position your fingers so every note is heard clearly.
Just like any other set of changes be sure to look and think ahead, try to grab the fingering in the air before coming down on the strings and position your fingers so every note is heard clearly.
Triads: Level 1
This first workout will have you playing root position shapes across the neck vertically in two different positions. You'll start out in the V position where all the roots will be played on the 5th fret. Be mindful of the fingering changes when you play the top two chords where the B-string is involved (that will always throw a wrench in fingering schemes). Once you make it to the top string set you'll then shift up two-and-a-half steps or a perfect 5th to the X and IX positions where you'll descend the same triads.
Just like any other set of changes be sure to look and think ahead, try to grab the fingering in the air before coming down on the strings and position your fingers so every note is heard clearly.
Just like any other set of changes be sure to look and think ahead, try to grab the fingering in the air before coming down on the strings and position your fingers so every note is heard clearly.
Triads: Level 1
This first workout will have you playing root position shapes across the neck vertically in two different positions. You'll start out in the V position where all the roots will be played on the 5th fret. Be mindful of the fingering changes when you play the top two chords where the B-string is involved (that will always throw a wrench in fingering schemes). Once you make it to the top string set you'll then shift up two-and-a-half steps or a perfect 5th to the X and IX positions where you'll descend the same triads.
Just like any other set of changes be sure to look and think ahead, try to grab the fingering in the air before coming down on the strings and position your fingers so every note is heard clearly.
Just like any other set of changes be sure to look and think ahead, try to grab the fingering in the air before coming down on the strings and position your fingers so every note is heard clearly.
Triads: Level 1
This first workout will have you playing root position shapes across the neck vertically in two different positions. You'll start out in the V position where all the roots will be played on the 5th fret. Be mindful of the fingering changes when you play the top two chords where the B-string is involved (that will always throw a wrench in fingering schemes). Once you make it to the top string set you'll then shift up two-and-a-half steps or a perfect 5th to the X and IX positions where you'll descend the same triads.
Just like any other set of changes be sure to look and think ahead, try to grab the fingering in the air before coming down on the strings and position your fingers so every note is heard clearly.
Just like any other set of changes be sure to look and think ahead, try to grab the fingering in the air before coming down on the strings and position your fingers so every note is heard clearly.
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Reviews
21 results
Guitarjle
Verified buyer
01/07/25
Guitar Gym - Triad workout
Loved the methodology. Working from the low e across the string sets limited the number of patterns that actually had to be remembered. I loved that.
TTelsog
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01/05/25
Best Triads
Amazing Chris, thanks a lot.
Ryan
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12/12/24
Recommended
Just finished this one a couple of weeks ago. My 2nd course of Guitar Gym completed. I did the Triad Chord Scales Major. This course taught me a lot about how the fretboard works. Also taught me things like how to recognize hand fatigue. Better practice strategies. My single note playing went up as well. Went to a scales. course after this for lead work. Got through the exercises in 1/3 of the time after this course. Highly recommend this one.
nuno69
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10/05/22
Fantastic Course
Wow, I'm impressed of the progress I'm experiencing through this Workouts. Instead of playing a few triads and their inversions I'm more and more able to play exactly what I want to play thanks to my greater knowledge of triads
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