Guitar Chord Theory Using Songs, Scales & Exercises Want to get that extra edge in your guitar playing? Triad Magic – An Introduction to Guitar Chord Theory will help you improve your lead and rhythm playing by allowing you to see how scales are directly related to triad shapes. This will also help you to find rhythm guitar parts that cut through the mix, and further solidify your basic chord expertise.
• Understand Basic Chord Theory on the Guitar Fretboard
• Learn to put Arpeggios to Work in Your Lead Playing
• Gain a Better Knowledge of the Guitar Neck
• For Acoustic or Electric Guitar
• Online Video Demonstrations
• Applies to all Styles – Rock, Country, Blues, Pop, Reggae, Jazz
What’s Included?Triad Magic begins with the most basic chord form: the triad. It’s an in-depth look at what makes guitar chords work using song examples and video demonstrations. You will master all the triad shapes on the guitar fretboard. You will also learn the numerical relationship between chords in many popular progressions. Understanding chord construction will help your composing, playing, teaching and communication with other musicians. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to take any song, go to any area of the guitar neck, and find a new approach to playing it, bringing the best possible tonal colors into the band.
This instructional book with online videos will also help you become more knowledgeable of the fretboard. It will help you no matter what style of music you play, Rock, Country, Blues, Pop, Reggae, or Jazz. When you need to form a basic chord (a triad), you won’t need to see a diagram, you’ll be able to build the chord by knowing its components.
What You Will Learn: • The four types of triads – major, minor, diminished and augmented
• How to use major & minor triads together, in the context of popular progressions
• Play any song in three completely different areas of the neck
• Learn chord spellings for all triads
• Invert the triads, tripling possibilities of sounds you can create
• How using inversions can improve voice leading
• Suspended triads, which increase your knowledge base that much more
Jerry Jennings started his musical career by performing in local bands and touring overseas. In the early 80 s, he decided to start a recording studio (Logic Surge Music). During this time he earned his AA in music and continued writing originals, and married his wife, Jane. He released his first of three instrumental jazz/rock/fusion CD s entitled The Good Part of a Pencil, Signs of Humanity, and the most recently released cd produced by Ronnie Montrose, Shortcut to the Center .
In 1994, out of pure necessity, Jerry wrote his first book
The Guitarist s Link to Sight Reading -#1 Guide to Understanding Studio Charts. He needed to be fluent in reading charts to become a hired studio musician and there was nothing on the market for established players that didn t know how to read music. After getting great reviews on his style and working man s sense, he decided to team up with well know local talent, Erik Kleven, and write
The Bassist s Link to Sight Reading. He did this once more with Ken Ballinger for
The Drummer s Link to Sight Reading all with the same concept. With these titles picked up by Music Sales Publishing Company, he then ventured off to writing
Classic Rock Rudiments for Lead Guitar,
Guitar 1 Start Out Jammin, Triad Magic-An Introduction to Guitar Chord Theory, and finally
Beginner Guitar Complete Course . All seven of these books include original compositions.
When the contract was up with Music Sales, Jerry and his bride decided to take on the publishing duties themselves. Together, along with their daughter Julia, they run Jennings Publishing Company aka JP Music.
Today Jerry is writing for Taxi, a song placement broker and compiling tunes for his next cd. All you Mac people will be happy to hear that Jerry has recently converted to an Apple based program called Logic. He continues to teach, record, write, produce, engineer, and perform at his local church as well as other venues livin life!
