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Learning All About Triads

This lessons outlines the entire course and includes a demonstration of ‘Triad Study’, the end goal of Triadic Invention. Furthermore, this lesson includes a theoretical explanation of ‘Open’ vs ‘Closed’ triads. Why do we use ‘open’ or ‘spread’ triads as opposed to ‘closed’ triads? What do ‘spread’ triads allow us to do? This lesson is

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The Chromatic Scale

This introductory lesson explains the importance of principle shapes in barre chords and how they interact with the chromatic scale. You may be surprised that this introduction to barre chords begins with Gary talking about the chromatic scale. This introductory lesson, however, explains the importance of principle shapes in barre chords and how they interact

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Arpeggio Exercises

This lesson is a continuation from the last lesson, Ross Baird gives some great ideas and examples on how to practice and get to really know your various arpeggio patterns. He introduces simple practice routines for open string arpeggios. If you have not viewed the last lesson open string major arpeggios we would urge you to

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