u/wizardmiaah

I posted in a Facebook group about playing chords for years without knowing what notes I was hitting, and 600+ people related. What finally made it click: seeing ALL the triad positions at once instead of learning one shape at a time.

For example, D minor = D, F, A. Once I could see where those 3 notes lived everywhere on the neck (same three notes, just in a dozen places), everything connected.

What was YOUR breakthrough moment? CAGED? Intervals? Something else?

(this came out of a little tool I ended up building for it,  triads.app  curious what worked for others though) <3

I understood triads on paper long before I could use them while comping. Root, third, fifth. Inversions. String sets. Fine on a diagram. But the moment a tune is moving (ii-V-I, a turnaround, someone calls "Autumn Leaves") the problem isn't "do I understand this?" It's "can my hand find the right voicing before the chord changes?"

In jazz this matters even more, because triads are raw material, not the endpoint. Upper-structure triads over dominants, triad pairs for soloing, triads as the top voices of rootless shells. None of that is usable if you can't already see and grab the basic inversions across string sets without thinking.

That's the gap I was trying to close. Pick a chord and string set, hear it, see it on the fretboard, drill the inversions up and down the neck in time. Or pick a key and run the triads inside it. Once those are automatic, the jazz applications on top (sus triads, slash voicings, upper structures) actually stick instead of staying theoretical.

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Would love feedback from anyone working on comping or soloing does drilling the basic inversions first actually make them easier to use in a real progression?