Very nice work! Highlighting the triads this way, you start sounding very melodic. Isn't that worth fighting for!? LOL

Posted by: robert

Very nice work! Highlighting the triads this way, you start sounding very melodic. Isn't that worth fighting for!? LOL

Thanks Robert. Triads and chordal tones are a powerful tool. I understand why you keep pushing them. No matter where on the fretboard you are hovering you can immediately find an appropriate triad.. Magic! Definitely worth fighting for! 

Keep up the good fight, Craig! You are winning.

Craig, it's so cool to hear the way you practice triads and chord tones in prior submissions and then hear that very effort and learning APPLIED in subsequent projects like the Road to Alberta. 

What's also cool is to hear the different influences/solo riff approaches you play in this project- its rooted in a style but there's a lot of variety in the phrase details.   Your playing sounds free and sincere.   I'm going to guess that the triad and chord tone studies freed you up to play what was flowing in you at the moment without much need to think about the basics of notes and positions?  

Maybe you should rename your project a road to your favorite destination down under since this seems to speak volumes of where you were going in your mind.

Clayton, Applying this knowledge is an essential  part of the learning/growing process.

I think it sounds like there are many influences because  A LOT of musicians use this knowledge. Ballads give perfect ground for application of this knowledge.

I was freed up at times and when I played the piece back I couldn't recall actually playing some riffs - being 'in the moment' so to speak.  Others were more calculated.  We will see what I play like after 6 months of application. I find myself waking at night, my fingering twitching in time to my current project and a new riff in mind!  I used to do this a lot when first starting out many years ago.  Its great that my muse is returning!

I have a new mantra  "know thy fret-board"!

I cannot stress enough how important this knowledge of triads and chordal tones is. Robert keeps pushing it onto us with good reason.  It is a vital key to exponential learning.  Everyone should embrace it ASAP in my opinion.

Yes there is for very good reasons I keep harping triads. Now you've heard it from Craig too and I didn't tell him what to say. He finally saw the light it seems. 

How about the rest of you?

I'll keep Tri-ing.  😎 

Clearly, Great Stuff.