Guitar Hacks: Triads and Inversions
Triads are one of the most underused tools on the guitar. Most players learn a few basic shapes early on and move on to scales and arpeggios, never realising that a thorough knowledge of triads and their inversions is one of the fastest routes to fretboard mastery — and one of the best foundations for soloing over chord changes you’ll ever find.
The problem is learning them. The standard approach — memorising root position, first inversion and second inversion shapes for every triad type across all six string groups — is genuinely tedious, and most guitarists give up before it becomes useful.
Guitar Hacks: Triads and Inversions solves that with a single insight: there’s a much faster, more efficient way to learn triads and their inversions all over the neck than rote memorisation. A method that not only gets the shapes under your fingers in a fraction of the usual time, but makes them stick — because you understand the logic rather than just drilling the patterns.
What’s in the book
- Root position, first inversion and second inversion for six triad types: major, minor, diminished, augmented, sus2 and sus4
- Complete fretboard coverage across all string groups in every key
- A hacked learning method that dramatically reduces the time it takes to internalise all the shapes — and keeps them accessible when you need them in real playing
- How to use triads and inversions practically — for chord progressions, rhythm parts, arpeggios and soloing over changes
- The foundation for genuine fretboard mapping: once triads are under your fingers, scales, arpeggios and chord-scale relationships all start to make more sense
Who it’s for
Guitarists at any level who want a complete, practical triad vocabulary — from intermediate players building their fretboard knowledge to advancing players who want a solid foundation for chord tone soloing and melodic improvisation.
Natural next steps
Triads are the foundation for chord tone soloing. Once they’re under your fingers, Simple Chord Tone Soloing System shows you how to apply them directly to improvising over chord changes — free PDF, no sign-up required.
Get the free PDF →For a broader look at how triads fit into the complete fretboard picture: Hacking the CAGED System: Book 1 covers triads as part of a unified system connecting chords, arpeggios, scales and modes.
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