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Triads - You Already Know More Than You Think

At the heart of just about every chord is a triad. This workshop explores these powerful harmonic and melodic music gems.

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Triads - You Already Know More Than You Think

At the heart of just about every chord is a triad. This workshop explores these powerful harmonic and melodic music gems.

We'll explore the traditional major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads and contemporary triads, starting with the triads you already know but don't know you already know. Finally learning the contemporary triads, just what a sus2, sus4, add2, add9 chord is. And, how to use them.

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Finally, learn the names of the notes of the ukulele fingerboard in C tuning .
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Harmonic Analysis for Scale Selection and Chord Substitution
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Ukulele – Reading Music Series – Primer

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Circle of Fourths and Fifths – ANSI A & A4 sizes

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