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What is an Augmented Triad?

Understanding augmented triads and the mandolin is easy with these tips, get expert advice and a music lesson in this free video.

- 1st Position Augmented Triads on the Mandolin's Lower Strings

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In this last part of my series, I'm going to look at Augmented Triads. And so far we've looked at Major Triads, Minor Triads, Diminished Triads, how Diminished Triads work over a dominate chord. And, this last one Augmented Triad. And, Augmented Triads are formed by instead of lowering one of the three notes of the triad you're going to raise one of the three notes. And, so just real quickly I'll look at the lowest set of strings so you can see. We're going to raise the five by a half step, the fifth degree of the scale. So, the root position stacks root five three. And, I'm going to raise the five up a half step and it's going to sound weird and sound like this. G Major here. The five is up on top. And, you can hear that. A lot of pop music like Beatles, a lot of your favorite music I'm sure has it in there. The fifth, last position. Here's the fifth raised.

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What is an Augmented Triad?

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