MAJOR & MINOR TRIADS
GUITAR COURSE
Learn major and minor triads, map the top three strings, and start seeing the guitar neck as connected musical neighborhoods.
The guitar neck can feel like a huge grid of unrelated shapes. You might know open chords, barre chords, and a few movable forms, but still feel unsure about what’s nearby, where a chord lives in another position, or how to move from one shape to the next without guessing.
That’s what this course is built to fix.
Know Your Neighborhoods: Major & Minor Triads helps you understand the top three strings of the guitar through simple, movable triad shapes. You’ll learn how major and minor chords appear in root position, first inversion, and second inversion, then practice those shapes in musical keys with backing tracks.
Instead of memorizing isolated chord grips, you’ll start recognizing the neighborhoods around each chord: where the next inversion sits, how nearby chords connect, and how a small section of the fretboard can give you a lot of usable music.
Learn the Local Map of the Guitar Neck
A lot of players learn guitar in scattered pieces.
You know a G chord down low. You know an E-shape barre chord higher up the neck. You may know a few scale patterns or CAGED shapes. But when it’s time to create a rhythm part, follow a progression, write a song, or move smoothly between chords, the neck can still feel disconnected.
Triads help connect the map.
A triad is a three-note chord. Major and minor triads are the basic building blocks inside the chord shapes you already use. Once you learn where those smaller shapes live, you can start moving through the neck with more purpose.
This course focuses on the top three strings: strings 3, 2, and 1. These are especially useful for rhythm guitar, melodic fills, songwriting, chord movement, and Nashville-style guitar parts.
You’ll learn the shapes, but more importantly, you’ll learn the neighborhood around each shape.
What You’ll Learn in This Course
This course teaches major and minor triads as a practical fretboard system, not just a set of diagrams to memorize. You’ll work through root position, first inversion, and second inversion shapes on strings 3, 2, and 1, then connect those shapes to keys, chord progressions, and musical backing tracks.
Major and Minor Triads
Learn the basic building blocks behind countless guitar parts, chord progressions, and song arrangements.
Root Position, First Inversion, and Second Inversion
See how the same chord can appear in three nearby forms, giving you more ways to play without jumping all over the neck.
Strings 3, 2, and 1
Focus on one useful area of the guitar at a time so the neck becomes easier to understand and apply.
Fretboard Neighborhoods
Learn what lives around each chord shape: nearby inversions, related chords, and practical movement options.
Key-Centered Practice
Practice triads in musical keys so you can hear how chords function together instead of treating each shape as a separate exercise.
Nashville Number System Connection
Work through major and minor chords in a way that connects naturally to numbered progressions.
Rhythm Guitar and Songwriting Application
Use triads to create better rhythm parts, smoother chord movement, melodic fills, and more interesting song arrangements.
Backing Track Practice
Apply each concept with full-band backing tracks so the shapes become musical, not just visual.
What’s Included?
Inside the course, you’ll get 10 focused video lessons that walk you through major and minor triads on the top three strings of the guitar.
You’ll learn root position, first inversion, and second inversion shapes, then practice them through key-centered exercises that show how nearby chords connect inside real progressions.
The course also includes downloadable PDFs, diagrams, MP3s, and 20 professional backing tracks. You’ll get 10 tracks in 4/4 and 10 tracks in 12/8, with bass, drums, and keys, so you can practice these triad neighborhoods in different grooves and musical settings.
Learn from Shane Lamb
This course is taught by Shane Lamb, founder of Green Hills Guitar Studio in Nashville.
Shane’s teaching focuses on helping students understand what they’re playing, not just where to put their fingers. As a guitarist, songwriter, and instructor, he teaches the guitar neck in a way that connects theory, technique, songwriting, and real musical situations.
In Know Your Neighborhoods: Major & Minor Triads, the goal is not to memorize a pile of chord shapes. The goal is to understand where you are on the neck, what lives nearby, and how to use those shapes in actual music.
Who This Course Is For
This course is a good fit if you:
- Know open chords but want to move up the neck
- Feel stuck using the same chord shapes over and over
- Want to understand major and minor triads on guitar
- Are learning CAGED and want to see the smaller chord shapes inside it
- Want to build better rhythm guitar parts
- Write songs and want more options for chord progressions and arrangements
- Want to understand how nearby chord shapes connect
- Want to use the Nashville Number System more confidently on guitar
- Like structured practice with video lessons, diagrams, and backing tracks
How the Course Works
Learn the Triad Shapes
Start with major and minor triads on strings 3, 2, and 1.
Find the Neighborhood
See where each chord lives in root position, first inversion, and second inversion.
Connect Nearby Chords
Practice moving between related shapes so the neck feels less random and more connected.
Work Through Musical Keys
Use key-centered exercises to understand how chords function together inside progressions.
Practice With Backing Tracks
Play the exercises with full-band tracks in 4/4 and 12/8 so the material becomes musical and practical.
Use the Shapes in Real Playing
Apply triads to rhythm parts, fills, songwriting, chord movement, and arrangement ideas.
Frequently Asked Questions
Start Seeing the Neck in Neighborhoods
Major and minor triads give you a practical way to understand the guitar neck. Instead of guessing at chord shapes or jumping between disconnected positions, you can start seeing how chords live near each other and move through a key.
This course gives you a clear place to start: the top three strings, three useful inversions, key-centered exercises, and backing tracks that help you turn the information into music.
If you’re ready to understand the neck more clearly and use triads in real playing situations, this course will help you build the map.
