Wide Triads: Harmonizing the Major Scale, Part 1

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Learn guitar chord theory in-depth with Mark Goldenberg, a respected touring and session guitarist and a student of the legendary Ted Greene. You'll explore basic major and minor chord inversions all over the neck and on all string sets, as well as wide-triad voicings; harmonized major scales; major, minor, and dominant seventh-chord voicings; and more.

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Harmonizing the Major Scale

Wide Triads: Harmonizing the Major Scale, Part 1

Wide Triads: Harmonizing the Major Scale, Part 2

Wide Triads: Harmonizing the Major Scale, Part 3

Wide Triads: Harmonizing the Major Scale, Part 1

Once you’ve learned the major and minor “wide triads” (a voicing that moves the middle voice of the closed-voice triad down an octave), you’ll learn to harmonize the major scale with them. But first, you need to learn the wide voicing of the diminished triad, which occurs on the seventh step of the major scale. Mark shows you the wide diminished triad voicings for a C#dim, which is the triad built on the seventh step of the key of D. Then he shows you the harmonized major scale in the key of D with wide triadic voicings in root position, followed by the key of F. You’ll also learn a circle-of-fourths progression in the keys of D and E.

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