Here is the official post on Structure of Chords and Triads for everyone who is wondering what triads are and how the hell people came up with chords based off of scales and triads.

First to start off get a good look at Darko's scale page to get a good idea of scales, mainly the major ones. A major
scale is just , Whole Step, Whole, Half, Whole, Whole, Whole, Half Step, and the notes are A, B flat, B, C, D flat, D, E flat,
F, G flat, G, A flat, A.( I didnt take the time to actually do the correct notation on which notes are considered flat or sharp IE-B flat or A Sharp,
But i think youll still understand)

Now on to scales, First is the Triad Chords. A Triad is the easiest type of chord, Each triad contains three notes stacked a third appart from one another.

You build the triad off the Tonic (or root) Position of a scale and go up in thirds. Ex-C major Triad C-E-G, (so there is a third between 1 & 3 and a third between 3 & 5)

The quality of a triad is based on its structure. There are 4 possible qualities, Major, Minor, Augmented, and Diminished.
Augmented triads are considered altered chords because they never happen naturally within a chord scale (or a scale tonic)
These are formulas for building each quality of triad. Building Triads

In Major Scale/Key the 1, 4, and 5 chords are always major, EX in the key of Cmaj, 1=Cmaj 4=Fmaj 5=Gmaj. The 2, 3, and 6, chords are minor, Ex in Cmaj, 2=Dmin 3=Emin 6=Amin. And the 7 chord is diminished. And in Every Minor Key the 1, 4, and 5 are major, the 3, 4, and 7 are minor, and 2 is diminished.
Natural Minor is just the Aeolian Mode. Here are some Practices.

There are also inverted triads, theres a 1st inverted triad and a second inverted triad. To invert a triad all you do is take the 1,3,5 and switch the around. For example a 1st inverted D-major triad would 3,5,1 or f#,a,d. And a second inverted D-Major triad would be 5, 1, 3 or a, d, f#. Fairly simple.
Here is a pic of a bunch of Triads and inverted triads.
Triad Inversions

Next Section will be on the building of basic chords. Such as power chords, and normal chords like E and C and what not. (I cant really explain things that well through typing) -COMING SOON-

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Some comments...


You should have taken the time to do that... Why do things incorrectly to start with, just to correct them later?

You don't necessarily build triads from the tonic of a scale. You can just as well pick some other note that's in the scale. For example, a D triad in C major would be a minor triad. You're not playing in the key of D minor just because this certain triad you play happens to be a D minor triad.

On the last one, you should see what you did yourself...

Seems to me that this is a good idea though. Just needs to be done properly.

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Can you guys revise this material then? I've been really wanting to learn how to incorporate triads into my melodic phrasing, like some catchy walks with traids.

Dave

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It wasnt really incorrect, it was just differant then the way most people are used to seeing it.

I understand what your talking about, but i was trying to apply that to major triads, i didnt really take into consideration that it wouldnt work the same for a minor, one mistake on me.

I will definitly take that in mind, I just learned how to do this stuff i wanted to test myself and see if i could write up an overview and explanation on how to build triads, thought i might release it to the metaltabs world while i was at it.

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