In addition to learning scales and single-note lines, to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fingerboard you’ll need to start finding chords and chord voicings in different parts of the neck. In this series of workouts, you’ll get started by learning three-note close-voiced triads on sets of three strings, beginning with the top three strings: E, B, and G. Scott gets you started with the major triads in the key of G: G, C, and D. Example 2 adds the three minor triads in the key of G: Em, Am, and Bm. In these exercises, you’ll move up the neck from chord to chord, one step at a time. In some cases, just one note will change in a chord, and it can be instructive to note how the individual voices move within the chord. For example, notice that in each case the major chord is followed by its relative minor (G is followed by Em, C by Am, D by Bm) and that just one note is changed in each case: the fifth of the major chord is raised to the sixth to form the relative minor. In Example 3, the chord built on the seventh step of the major scale, a diminished chord, is added. In this sequence, each voice moves up a step in the scale to create the next chord, first the top voice moves, then the middle, then the bottom, etc.