Practicing Minor Triads & Inversions Series 1

Description

Here we have the A minor, D minor and E minor & major triad chords in root position on the E, A and D strings.

We have the same exact shape that we can simply shift up and down the fretboard in order to create three different chords.

Anytime you practice it is valuable to have a reliable standard to measure your progress. Usually this involves playing some specific musical idea, scales or chords along with a metronome in order to gradually improve. In this case, we have a group of chords that we will practice over a backing track. In my experience it is much more motivating, rewarding and fun to play along with a backing track than a metronome. A metronome certainly has it's place in the musician's tool kit. But, we are eventually going to play music with these chords.

The backing track is a simple audio recording of a bass and drums playing the same thing over and again. The bass plays the root notes of the chords we are practicing: A, D, A and E. The bass plays even 1/8th notes walking from chord to chord using notes of the A minor scale. Each chord gets two measures, making a total of 8 measures then repeating.