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Power Up Your Triads To Build Hip Lines & Great Solos

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Triad Powerup
Joe Pinnavaia

Joe Pinnavaia

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About this course

TrueFire Foundry courses are independently produced courses presented by a hand-picked selection of top-notch artists and educators from around the world. Filmed in the educator’s own studio, Foundry courses bring fresh educational concepts and very effective teaching methodologies to TrueFire Students. Joe Pinnavaia’s Foundry course, Triad PowerUp will show you how to power up your triads to build hip lines and great solos.

Hello I'm Joe Pinnavaia — welcome to my TrueFire Foundry course, Triad PowerUp, which I produced in my own studio.

We will be discussing and implementing several different concepts related to triads. This will not only have you on your way to discovering ways to build fresher sounding ideas but will also build upon the way you view the fretboard. Triads are the building blocks for harmony and too many players overlook the importance of these and how it can take your sound from diatonic to intervallic in no time at all!

I’ll have you fleshing out chord tones from scales, viewing triads within scales and how to connect them together. When I listen to players like Allan Holdsworth Scott Henderson, Greg Howe I'm inspired by their command and how their solos flow over chord changes. After breaking down some lines it then becomes clear that the great players are not always "running scales" as they say but developing harmonically complex ideas by use of triads, passing tones as well as scales.

We will look at two string triad shapes and triad groupings on the same set of strings as well as in intervals of thirds. This gives you the lateral mobility with these concepts. Then we will discuss use of diatonic connecting notes. This will help you connect two string triad shapes and how to use them within scales, Triads can be used to extend harmony by stacking forms together which will result in you being able to build lines with harmonic content that flow. You will also implement these ideas overt backing tracks for practice and improvisation.

I will show you each of these concepts step by step. Once you have the concept down I will show you how to transpose these ideas and use them in different keys and feels like a A Dorian Groove, G Minor Groove, F Major Rock, D Dorian and G Mixolydian.

Triad PowerUp will set you up with the vision to see the fretboard in different ways you may not have thought possible. Ready to get started? Grab your guitar and let’s get dig in!

NOTE! Joe Pinnavaia organized the course into 8 weekly sections for those students that prefer to have a specified regimen of material across a specified time schedule. However, for those students who prefer to work at their own pace, or even skip around you are certainly encouraged to approach the course in that way as well.

What you'll learn

  • Create melodic lines using triad shapes
  • Understanding triad shapes across the fretboard
  • Improve fretboard knowledge
  • Develop mental approach to soloing beyond physical patterns
  • Building more sophisticated solos
Release date: 12/01/2014 • 1h 28m runtime
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Sample lessons
Week 5: Triad PowerUp
Week 5: Triad PowerUp
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What's included

11 lessons • 8 charts • 3 Jam Tracks

Triad PowerUp
Welcome to Triad PowerUp! This course was designed for the intermediate or advanced student who wants to improve upon his or her fretboard knowledge of the guitar by creative practice methods. Let's say that a familiarity with the modes and triads will help you find your way in this course.

This course works with ideas of combining and using triads and modes to not only build a better understanding of the fretboard, but to building better lines. This 8 week course will get you out of your comfort zone and into a place where you can build on fresh concepts.
See how you can use triads, and various ways of practicing scales and arpeggios to boost your fretboard knowledge immediately. Plus, you will gain direction of how to improvise and make musical statements.
Week 1: Scale Practice
This week we'll focus on the major scale and major triad. You could do this type of practicing with any scale and any triad but for now to get the concept out there and for you to internalize it we will stick to A major. There are some great ideas to generate from this concept as well as gaining perspective on what notes to stop on and what ones to start phrases with.
Week 2: Diatonic Triad Pairs
In this week's lesson, we will take a look at triads in F major and looking at diatonic triad pairs going up the neck. This is a great lesson in regards to seeing neighboring triad shapes and using them to connect ideas together. I did not label every single triad because that would be information overload, however the goal would be to see and name each triad while moving up the fretboard. This will also increase and solidify fretboard knowledge. Use the backing track to try out some newly discovered ideas!

Best,

Joe
Week 2: Bonus Lesson on Triads
Triads are the core of any chord, such as major, minor, diminished, etc. The focus here is to start out with learning the various shapes on the guitar and to start using them - right away! Triads have been used by a lot of sax players and they are the best when it comes to superimposing them over chords. Another tool in your bag that can be used with improvising solos!
Week 3: Diatonic Triads in 3rds
Hey guys! For this week's lesson, we'll be focusing on using the triads on the same strings, but now moving an interval of a 3rd. This can produce some interesting combinations of triads and will "stretch" the fretboard out into a wider range than the usual. After studying the PDF, take a turn at the backing track and solo using these triad combinations as a launching pad into some uncharted territory!

Any questions? Let's go!
Week 4: Diatonic Triads Same Position
In this week's lesson, we're looking at fusing two triad shapes together to form a line that moves triads diatonically and then in 3rds. This creates nice flowing ideas and of course after you get these under your hands you can move them in different directions on the fretboard. Review the PDF and then experiment with some other ways to traverse the fretboard.
Week 5: Triad PowerUp
In this lesson we will explore the idea of connecting triads with diatonic connecting notes or in other words neighboring scale tones. This will add a flowing effect to your lines as you work different triads into you improvisations.

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Dale C.

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07/02/18

I found this course to be very helpful in several ways. Using triads is a great way to escape pattern habits/ruts, and Triad Powerup by Joe Pinnavaia is a great course to help navigate triads and their uses. Good examples, clear explanations and well done, I recommend this course if you're looking for ways to spice up your playing and get some new ideas.

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