Hello all …
Vintage Club #28 - Monday September 8th 11 at 7pm UK time
All resources including backing tracks for Vintage Club #28 here.
This edition builds immediately on #27 which covered major triads on the G, B & E strings. In this session you will learn the three minor grips and use them in study pieces and in context of songs. Accessible to all, best suited to Grade 2+.
Richard
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Time flies.
I’m still supposed to be on holiday … but I just can’t keep away. I’ve been doing a bit of planning and preparation for Monday 8th and thought I’d give you all a little head start on what we will be doing in Vintage Club #28.
Club #27 concentrated on major triads on the G, B & E strings in the key of C. Please make sure you are familiar with the three different grips in the correct fret positions for each of the three triads C, F and G. You may have a preferred grip but make sure you can easily use and make changes with as many as you can.
The new content will look at the minor triads on the G, B & E strings as general grips, then specifically in the key of C. Where C, F & G major are the I, IV and V respectively, we will look at and use Dm, Em & Am which are the ii, iii and vi respectively. If you have time it would be fantastic if you could learn to form and change between these grips before the live session.
In the live session, I aim to encourage you to play along, using the major and minor triads, to one or two songs in the key of C. The chord progressions we will be using are as follows.
A minority blues
| Am | Am | Em | Em |
| Am | Am | Dm | Dm |
| Am | Em | Am | Am |
A love ballad in C
Intro
| C | G | C | C |
Verses
| C | Em | Am | Am |
| F | C | G | G |
| F | G | Am | F |
| C | G | C | C |
An instrumental piece in C
| C | G | Am | Em |
| F | C | F | G |
I hope to see you on Monday.
Richard
Try and enjoy your break now Richard and many many thanks for the heads up. Very useful.
Thank you, This will be a good one.
Thanks Richard. Great to get this heads up/preview. So much more can be gained from a lesson when one doesn’t come into it cold.
Enjoy your weekend.
Hello all. For Club #28 (minor triads) I have started to populate a shared Google drive folder with resources. This could be useful for those who like to have a hard copy of (say) chord progressions and triad grips as you play along. I will add the backing tracks once I have them completed.
Now I know what you were meaning! Exactly…the same! 
I look foward listening to your ballad!
@Silvia80
Oh, it is exactly the same.
My love ballad is that same song. By not naming it I’m doing a little tease,
Whoops … silly me, I wrote this chord progression incorrectly here and in the shared resoureces. It is now correct.
An instrumental piece in C
| C | G | Am | Em |
| F | C | F | G |
Humble apologies, especially if you have been learning it and / or printed it.
Well I guess the good stuff comes back…I’m now studying this old italian classic written in 1977, which is in 12/8 and G Em Am D all the way through…
…then the other day there was Perfect by Ed Sheeran on the radio and I thought “this is in 12/8 too!”, but then I could also sing my melody over it, I checked the chords on the Internet and the verse was G Em C D!
You might think to change the time-signature to disguise it a little bit
Teasing is a very effective teaching strategy btw 
Vintage Club #28. We go live soon. All resources including backing tracks here: Vintage Club #28 Resources – Google Drive
Reminder to self … I should know better.
Always check the audio settings.
Sorry.
Everything was loud and clear in my headphones.
I don’t know why Streamyard defaulted away from my usual setup.
Richard, thanks again for a great workshop. You’ve probably answered my question right at the end. To date we have learned about Triads on BGE. My question was going to be can Triads be any set of strings. For example the opening notes on Green days hauntingly beautiful “Wake me up when September ends” are on DBG. I assume these are Triads? If so its an excellent example of how effective they can be on their own.
There was some interesting discussion in the Vintage Club Whatsapp group that led to me posting a ‘homework’ challenge. So I will share here too.
Task 1
Key of D.
Tonic D major.
D triad in root position spans frets 5-7.
Place it on a neck diagram. Add the diatonic triads of D, Em, F#m, G, A, Bm in the same location (frets 5-9).
Task 2
Key of G.
Tonic G major.
G triad in 2nd inversion spans frets 7-8.
Place it on a neck diagram. Add the diatonic triads of G, Am, Bm, C D, Em in the same location (frets 5-9).
Hint. You do not need to know the corresponding major scales nor the notes of each triad. Just use the diagrams in my resources and see the triad shapes as movable. As one moves all move in exact measure. So their relative positions in regards to the tonic and root are unaltered. Only the fret numbers change.
I’m so good to you folk ….
Go here.
You will find a blank template with three columns, each having space for all seven diatonic triads (yes, including the oft-neglected diminished if you want it) so you can fill your boots and do more than the set homework …
Like this …
