Triad Chord Theory Worksheet

Music Theory Triad Chord Theory & Practice
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Hello @schollzy and welcome to the community.

You have arrived at the correct answer for your 1, b3, 5 minor chord although there is a small error in your fuller major scale.

G# major scale is:
G#, A#, B#, C#, D#, E#, F##, G#

I hope that helps.

Cheers :smiley:

| Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide, Approved Teacher & Moderator

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It’s really worth memorizing the basic major triads:

C-E-G
D-F#-A
E-G#-B
F-A-C
G-B-D
A-C#-E
B-D#-F#

This way you’ll recognize which triads you have to work out when you encounter jumbled triads (e.g. C#-A-E) and you will also know if the given triad you see is major, minor, augmented or diminished.

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Strongly agree with this. It’s helped me immensely. Although I still get tripped up by the two sharps in the B triad!

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Look at it this way: if a major triad has 2 sharps, that can only be B major :wink:

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A bit of a curved ball from Justin in this one, two scales which are not the normal ones as has been pointed out above.

I resisted the temptation of looking on the internet and worked them out correctly myself, and would you believe it I made a silly mistake for one of the triads and wrote down the fourth degree, got all the others correct.

That’s typical of me.

Michael

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Half of the answers are missing, and they’re all out of order. Can someone post the right answers in the right order please?

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Hello @kc_c and welcome to the Community.
Thanks for taking a subscription to the theory course and for reporting an issue.
Can you please give specific details so the issue(s) can be reported and corrected where necessary?

@Hyzzan issue reported.

Cheers :smiley:
| Richard | JustinGuitar Approved Teacher, Official Guide & Moderator

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The PDF attached to the lesson, “Triad Note Worksheet” doesn’t match the answers on the HTMl page for the lesson.

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I have taken a screenshot of the pdf and one of the answers and set them alongside one another. The questions and answers are a 100% match.

triads workseet answers
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Are you looking at something different?

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That doesn’t match the “Triad Note Worksheet” PDF that I downloaded. The one I’ve got starts with G Major, and at hte bottom has Gb major, then in the right column starts on D Aug and ends on C#min. There are some I’m confused about because we didn’t cover the patterns in scales, like G# minor, Gb major, etc.

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i can’t seem to edit, but the PDF I’m talking about is this one: https://www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/triad-chord-theory-worksheet-mt-402

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@kc_c

Things are beginning to make sense.
You posted in the wrong Discussion topic.
Your query about the issue should have been in the Triad Chord Theory Worksheet lesson but you posted in the Triad Chord Analysis lesson.
Each has their own downloadable worksheet. That is where mine came from.
I will check the one you are reporting and I will also split and move your questions to the correct topic.

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Thanks, sorry. I had only just realized that there were 2 different worksheets. I assumed it was the same worksheet (and perhaps it should be?)

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Does this mean I don’t need to do any work?
Have you been looking at one set of questions and a different set of answers?

Is everything sorted?

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Yes, thanks. Sorry for the confusion.

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I’m missing something really basic here. For Triads, G Major is described as notes G B D, but looking at a chord diagram the notes are G B G. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

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Hello Pat,

Remember that with a G chord there are also strings that are not fretted. These are also notes.
So for the standard open chord G, you have the notes
G-B-D-G-B-G.

Triads are smaller iterations of these chords, where each note is present just once. In this case G-B-D.

Cheers, Shane

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Thanks for the reply Shane, that explains it. I don’t remember Justin mentioning excluding the repeating notes… maybe I just missed it.

What are the benefits of expressing chords in Triad form?

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Hey Pat,

Triads are one of THE most important things you’ll ever learn on a guitar. They are central to music, and are everywhere.
Different forms of the same triad can be played all over the neck, opening up a myriad of different voicings, sounds etc that give rise to the great music made. Triads are also extremely beneficial in learning the notes/intervals of the fretboard.
They are essential learning. Justin covers them in detail during the course.

Cheers, Shane

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Hi Pat,
What Shane say`s is so true :sunglasses:

really… I remember very well my first triads lessons from Justin… after I had learned all the “normal” chords over the entire neck… and then I started with the triads, on the first day and later in the week I had the most “lightbulp” moments and smiles of my entire guitar journey after discovering that GACED (fret board logic :sweat_smile:) existed …

Even now I’m typing with a smile as I think back to those moments :smiley:

Greetings,Rogier

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