Originally Posted by: caponi14im curently taking Christophers lesson (Music theory: a brief overview) and iv made it to the Section with triads with the formulas for major and minor and that stuff, but i have a problem visualising the patterns :confused: especially with the G string because it's a fret apart from the others...

I am not sure what you mean by the G string being apart. Perhaps you meant the B string? There is a change in interval when you get to crossing from the G string to B string. This means that any scale or chord pattern that you used involving the bottom three strings will have to be adjusted up a string when it involves the G and B strings. Look at the tutorials linked below for examples.

This tutorial shows how to view triads across various combinations of mostly 1 and 2 strings (although I do mention 3 strings):

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=389

I saved most of the 3 string concepts for this tutorial:

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=148

And you can practice that concept with these lessons on triads and their inversions across the fretboard:

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=730
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=731
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=733
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=734

Let me know how it goes or if you have more questions!