Acoustic Guitar Player

My previous post was about using triads, three note chords. Many guitar players would be familiar with the common four chord progression

C  Am  Dm G  If you’ve been doing a little study about music over the years you’d probably know that this chord progression is known as  1 - 6 - 2 - 5.  The reason for calling it this is because if you carefully look at a simple C major scale ( C D E F G A B C) you’ll notice that the 1st 6th 2nd and 5th notes are C A D G.  From there we add a number of  additional notes to create chords.

 So, onto triads.  As stated in my last post, triads have  alot of ‘bounce’ in them, in the right song this chord progression is very very nice.  It won’t work all the time for every song, but if you are new to playing triads you might enjoy experimenting with what I’m showing you.  It’s a very different way of playing. The chords have a few extensions.  E.G. instead of C we’re using C Major Seven, for A minor - A minor Seven, D minor - D minor Seven and instead of a straight G , we’ll us a G Seven because it moves nicely back to C. 

 Download the Printable Version by clicking here Guitar Triads 1 6 2 5 chord progression