How to Play Triads on a Twelve String Guitar

Video Transcript

"I’m a professional guitar instructor. Next, I’d like to discuss triad based out of the major sales. These triads, which are the building blocks for chords, are created by combining notes from the major scale. A major chord or major triad is created by combining the first, third, and fifth notes of the major scale. Here for example, I’m using C, which gives me C notes, E note, and a G note. Put that together in a C chord, and I have nothing but Cs, Es, and Gs, a C major chord. To make that major chord into a minor, we flat the third. So C, E, flat and G. C, E, flat and G. First flatted third in fifth, or root flatted third and fifth. To create the diminished triad, we flat the third and we flat the fifth. So C, E flat, and G flat. Root flatted third and flatted fifth will create the C diminished triad or C diminished chord."