Form 2 Minor Triads Guitar Lesson
Form 2 Minor Triads
Brendan burns demonstrates the 2nd form minor tiny triads. Additionally, he provides exercises that combine the minor and major triads within chord progressions.
Taught by Brendan Burns in Improv with Brendan seriesLength: 20:21Difficulty: 2.0 of 5
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Improv with Brendan
Found in our Beginner Lesson SetsIn his Theory and Improvisation series, Brendan Burns looks at triads, chord voicings and usage across the circle of fifths.
Lesson 1
Lesson Series Overview
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
Form 1 Tiny Triads
Brendan demonstrates the tiny triad shapes derived from the form 1 barre chord.
Length: 13:12 Difficulty: 1.5 FREE
Form 3 Tiny Triads
Brendan Burns demonstrates the tiny triads derived from the 3rd form of the CAGED system.
Length: 12:51 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Form 2 Tiny Triads
Brendan demonstrates the 2nd form tiny triads.
Length: 20:57 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Form 1 Minor Triads
Brendan demonstrates the tiny minor triad shapes derived from the form 1 CAGED shape.
Length: 4:41 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Form 3 Minor Triads
Brendan demonstrates the 3rd form minor triads from the CAGED system.
Length: 6:09 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Form 2 Minor Triads
Brendan burns demonstrates the 2nd form minor tiny triads.
Length: 20:21 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Augmented Tiny Triads
Brendan Burns demonstrates the tiny triad shapes for augmented chords.
Length: 6:30 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Diminished Tiny Triads
Brendan Burns demonstrates the grips for the diminished tiny triads.
Length: 7:35 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Tiny Triads Wrap-Up
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 Only
More Tiny Triads
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 Only
6th Tiny Triads
Brendan demonstrates the addition of the 6th extension to the tiny triad forms.
Length: 7:54 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Minor Triad Extensions
In lesson 13, Brendan covers the extensions for the minor form tiny triads.
Length: 13:24 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Sus 4 Tiny Triads
Brendan Burns demonstrates the Sus 4 forms for the tiny triads.
Length: 6:13 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Tiny Triads Review
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 Only
More Major Triads
Brendan Burns takes a look at extensions that can be added to major triads.
Length: 16:47 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Major Triad 6ths
Brendan discusses and demonstrates how to add the 6th extension to your major triads.
Length: 11:36 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
More Minor Triads
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 Only
Unstable Triads
Brendan Burns demonstrates and discusses the unstable or "ambiguous" triads that result from altering the 3rd.
Length: 19:48 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Spread Voiced Major Triads
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 Only
Spread Voiced Minor Triads
Brendan demonstrates spread voicings of minor triads.
Length: 14:15 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Triadic Improvisation #1
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 Only
Triadic Improvisation #2
Continuing on with triadic improvisation techniques, Brendan discusses and demonstrates how to utilize the minor triads.
Length: 27:22 Difficulty: 2.0 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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Discussions with our instructors are just one of the many benefits of becoming a member of JamPlay.Listening to you playing Brendan I hear a neo-classical almost medieval sound coming from you is it the progression I,vi,ii,V ? or your fingerpicking ?
I'm not totally sure, but I bet you it's the chord progression. It's a strong one. :)
Thanks sandrac. I have a lesson set (written, but not filmed) for seventh chords, but they work a little differently than triads. There are a lot more possibilites when you have four notes.
Thanks for your reply Brendan. Instead of calling them triads , i should have clarified that i was hoping to learn 3 note 7th chord voicings ,that leave out the root . Ideally, i would like to use those types of mini - voicings so a soloist could play over. But, that is waaaay down the road . Current reality is that i am becoming familiar with all the tiny triads in your lessons :-}
Yeah, the tiny-triads can keep you busy for a while. When you get a hang of them, try subbing the root for the 9. That will make the switch to guide-tones a lot easier. Keep it rockin!
Hi Brendan, Very helpful lessons :-} Are you planning to teach us little triad shapes for 7th chords in future lessons ?
I was picking it up fairly quickly, but it's time to run this I, ii, vi, V through the circle of fifths in their three different inversions. In other words, I'll be back in a couple months. Great lessons!
I'm glad these are making sense to you. They'll pick up speed once your fingers and ears start to understand the patterns. You'll be there in no time. Keep rockin' it!