
In his Theory and Improvisation series, Brendan Burns looks at triads, chord voicings and usage across the circle of fifths.
Lesson 1
Brendan Burns provides an overview of the topics that will be covered in his chord voicing lesson series.
Length: 4:17 Difficulty: 0.5 Members OnlyLesson 2
Brendan demonstrates the tiny triad shapes derived from the form 1 barre chord.
Length: 13:12 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 3
Brendan Burns demonstrates the tiny triads derived from the 3rd form of the CAGED system.
Length: 12:51 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 4
Brendan demonstrates the 2nd form tiny triads.
Length: 20:57 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 5
Brendan demonstrates the tiny minor triad shapes derived from the form 1 CAGED shape.
Length: 4:41 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 6
Brendan demonstrates the 3rd form minor triads from the CAGED system.
Length: 6:09 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 7
Brendan burns demonstrates the 2nd form minor tiny triads.
Length: 20:21 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 8
Brendan Burns demonstrates the tiny triad shapes for augmented chords.
Length: 6:30 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 9
Brendan Burns demonstrates the grips for the diminished tiny triads.
Length: 7:35 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 10
Now that you've gone through all the tiny triad lessons, Brendan offers some closing statements and insights that will help you with incorporating them into your playing.
Length: 2:00 Difficulty: 0.5 Members OnlyLesson 11
Brendan takes a more in depth look at extensions that can be added to the tiny triad forms.
Length: 12:07 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 12
Brendan demonstrates the addition of the 6th extension to the tiny triad forms.
Length: 7:54 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 13
In lesson 13, Brendan covers the extensions for the minor form tiny triads.
Length: 13:24 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 14
Brendan Burns demonstrates the Sus 4 forms for the tiny triads.
Length: 6:13 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 15
To get you setup to start learning more tiny triads, Brendan talks about what he'll be covering next and provides a review of the previous material.
Length: 5:45 Difficulty: 1.5 Members OnlyLesson 16
Brendan Burns takes a look at extensions that can be added to major triads.
Length: 16:47 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 17
Brendan discusses and demonstrates how to add the 6th extension to your major triads.
Length: 11:36 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 18
Brendan takes a look at the extensions and embellishments that can be added to the minor tiny triads.
Length: 22:51 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 19
Brendan Burns demonstrates and discusses the unstable or "ambiguous" triads that result from altering the 3rd.
Length: 19:48 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 20
Brendan Burns demonstrates and discusses how to utilize spread voiced triads in your playing. In the first lesson of this mini-series, he discusses major spread voicings.
Length: 19:37 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 21
Brendan demonstrates spread voicings of minor triads.
Length: 14:15 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 22
The first lesson in Brendan's triadic improvisation lesson series covers the major triads and the combinations of their extensions.
Length: 24:51 Difficulty: 0.0 Members OnlyLesson 23
Continuing on with triadic improvisation techniques, Brendan discusses and demonstrates how to utilize the minor triads.
Length: 27:22 Difficulty: 2.0 Members OnlyLesson 24
Brendan demonstrates and discusses how various tiny triads can be applied to bass notes to imply larger, more complex chords. He also explains how these concepts can be used in a melodic context.
Length: 18:26 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
About Brendan Burns
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Brendan has been passionate about music since childhood. He began his studies on trumpet, in elementary school, and then moved to guitar as a teenager. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from Berklee College of Music, and has studied with Norm Zocher, Joe Stump, Bret Willmott, Bob Pilkington, Jay Weik, Tim Miller, & Charlie Banacos.
While at Berklee, Brendan was a member of the Music Mentoring Program, teaching private lessons to gifted high school students. He is currently teaches, and is chair of the guitar department at Brookline Music School. Brendan also teaches guitar for Tune Foolery & privately at his home in Cambridge, MA.
Along with educating, Brendan plays out often as a Solo Guitarist, performing standards, pop, and classical repertoire. He has recorded and played with the chamber-fusion band Ra Quintent, and as well as Vessela Stoyanova's Eastern Stories Under Western Skies Project. Brendan also performs as a leader, director and sideman for various Boston art-rock projects, and is former member of MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika.
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Member Comments about this Lesson
Discussions with our instructors are just one of the many benefits of becoming a member of JamPlay.Since playing a full barre chord is a struggle for me, I love these tiny triads. I hope to learn more of the fretboard besides the notes on the first five frets. I enjoy your clear explanations.
And Brendan for me, it's coming back to all those watery ripples of sound. Great soul food to soothe the nerves after so much shrieking and creaking! Definitely you are cool.
Hey just started on this one Brendon looks great I must say - I personally love playing 2 or 3 string chords - mostly power- this looks the right place to be...Oh & the Stones course too !
Great !!!!!! You are making learning triads a piece of cake. My fretboard is now wide open.
So much to do with triads!
I cannot believe that after years of playing guitar, I eventually made the connection between triads and barre chords on my own some months ago... Now I find your great course, and am looking forward to seeing if I missed anything and anyway work with your tips! Anyhow, after browsing for the past couple of days on JamPlay and watch about 10 different teachers on various topics, you are #1 for me at this stage! Great explanations, nice guitar sound ... best in class!
Many Thanks, Brendan. These lessons will be perfect to expand my rythmn playing. I really enjoyed this and the way you explained it. Regards, Jayson
That's great to hear Jayson. Stay tuned, there are more inversions to come.
This cleared CAGED up for me (especially inversions), thanks!
Excellent! That's great to hear!