LE MODE DORIEN EN TRIAD PAIRS - LE GUITAR VLOG 149

What Are Triad Pairs ?
Before you dig into the material below, let’s look at exactly what triad pairs are and how you can use them to expand your Jazz guitar soloing chops over common chord progressions and Jazz standards.

Here is a triad pair definition that you can use as a reference for this concept in your studies.

Triad pairs are diatonic major triads a tone apart that you can use to outline chord changes in your Jazz guitar solos.

Though you can use other triads for triad pairs, minor, diminished, or augmented, you can outline any chord change with only major triad pairs.

Because of this, major triad pairs tend to be very popular with Jazz guitarists, as this not only allows you to solo over any chord with just one triad type, but major triads and their inversions are easy to play on the guitar.

When using triad pairs to solo over chord changes, you’re using 6 notes from the underlying scale to create lines in your solo.

Though you’re using most of the notes from the diatonic scale, breaking that scale up into two major triads helps hide the sound of the scale in your lines.

Triad pairs allow you to sound the scale over any chord without sounding like you’re running up and down that scale in your improvised lines.

As well, because you’re using two identical shapes a tone apart, triad pairs are great for developing melodies in your playing.

You can play one idea over the first triad, and then repeat that idea over the same triad shape a tone higher to continue that motive in your playing.

This’ll allow you to outline the changes, break up the scale shape, and make it easy to develop melodies in your solos.

As you can see, triad pairs are powerful tools for any Jazz guitarist to have under their fingers.

If you’re new to triad pairs, move on to the next section to begin learning common triad pair fingerings on the fretboard.

If you’ve got some triad pair fingerings down already, you can skip ahead and begin working on the practice patterns or chord studies below.