4: Triad Arpeggios Explained for Guitar

In this episode, you're going to learn about triad arpeggios on the guitar. 

Here's the associated YouTube video: 5 Easy Tapping Arpeggios Every Guitarist Needs to Know.

And here are the easy tapping arpeggios tabs.

Throughout the episode you'll learn about:

• triads
• arpeggios
• suspended chords

So, tune in if you want to improve your knowledge of guitar techniques and theory through the use of triad arpeggios!

Thanks for listening, and subscribe to the show for more awesome guitar lessons.

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the Guitar Jet Podcast,where you'll skyrocket your knowledge of theory,
techniques, and fundamentals for guitar.Hey, and welcome to the guitar Jet
Podcast. I'm your host Miles,and in today's episode, we're going to
talk about triad arpeggios. If youlike what you hear in today's episode,
then go ahead and subscribe to theGuitar Jet Podcast. Okay, I recently

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made a YouTube video titled five EasyTapping our Peggios and in that video,
all the arpeggios I teach our triadour peggios or suspended our peggios. To
understand this, I'll define three termsfor you triads, suspended, and our
peggios. I'll tell you the coordformulas for triads and suspended chords after I've
defined them. Now, let's startwith triads. Triads are three note chords

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and there are four types major,minor, diminished, and augmented. The
important thing to remember about triads isthe fact that they're all constructed with a
root note and a variation of athird and a fifth. Now I'll tell
you about suspended chords. Suspended chords, also called sus chords, are also
three note chords, and there aretwo types SUS two and Sus four.

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They're generally not considered tryabs because theylack a third interval. Now, I'll
define our peggios our peggios simply putour chords that are played one note at
a time. So when I talkabout triad and suspended our peggios, I'm
referring to those chord types being playedone notte at a time, rather than
in harmony. For example, inmy video about tapping our peggios, I
broke down these five chords and showedhow to play them with tapping a minor,

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a major, a diminished, augmentedass two. You're able to tap
these ar peggios by identifying the notesand interval structures of these chords and applying
them to a single string. Andlike I told you earlier, i'll give
you those chord formulas now. Themajor R peggio formula is one three five.
The minor R peggio formula is oneflat three five. The diminished our

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pegio formula is one flat three flatfive. The augmented our peggie formula is
one three sharp five. The SUStwo our peggio formula is one two five.
The sus four our peggio formula isone four five. When remembering the
suspended our peggio formulas, just rememberthat every sess chord has a root and

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a fifth, and if it's sustwo, it has a second, and
if it's sus four it has afourth. Pretty simple, right overall,
learning single string tryad our peggios isone of the best ways to improve your
phrasing and level up your technique.Thanks for listening to the guitar Jet podcast
and subscribe to the show to learnmore about guitar techniques and theory. And

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go to guitarjet dot com to findfree guitar resources and learn more about the
show. Happy playing and have arocking day.