Triads and Chord Inversions On The Guitar
Connect your chord ear training with your guitar playing by practising major, minor, diminished and augmented triad chords and their inversions on guitar.
Thomas Evdokimoff
Posts by Thomas Evdokimoff
How to Hear Chord Inversions
As part of chord ear training you will want to practice with all inversions of chords. Here are some techniques to help you recognise triad inversions.
Guitar Interval Practice: Learn to Recognize Intervals
Intervals are the building blocks of the vital musical sense of relative pitch. Find out how you can do interval ear training as part of your guitar practice.
Recognize Intervals with Consonance and Dissonance
Consonance and dissonance can be the key to easier interval recognition. Learn about consonant and dissonant intervals in this tutorial.
Inversions of Diminished and Augmented Triads
Diminished and Augmented chords each have distinctive sounds and you can use the intervals within them to help you reliably recognise their inversions by ear.
Inversions of Major and Minor Triads
We’ve previously covered how to recognize the different qualities of triad – major, minor, augmented and diminished. We can also learn to hear their inversions.
Working With Seventh Chords
Once you’re comfortable with intervals and triads, we can start to work on seventh chords (popular in jazz, blues and pop music) with seventh chord ear training
Learning to Recognize Triads – Part 2
Triad chords are the basis of all chords. Once you master major and minor triad chords, you should learn how to recognise augmented and diminished triads.
Learning to Recognize Triads – Part 1
Triad chords are the basis of all chords, so they are a great way to start chord ear training. Learn how and get started recognising major and minor triads.
Learning to Recognize Intervals
When you learn to recognize intervals you build your core sense of relative pitch which lets you play by ear, improvise and create your own music.
An Approach to Ear Training
With ear training it is useful to have a basic methodology for building our skills. We are developing our relative pitch to recognise notes by ear.
The Importance of Ear Training for Musicians
Ear training is an integral part of our musical studies. We are developing our mind’s ear so we can accurately hear and identify the musical elements we hear.
