Minor Triad Inversions

Once you've gotten a handle on Major Triad Inversions, we can tackle the next set.

Let's play these triads as a Dm for now. You should already understand what we're doing here, so let's just jump in!

Here's the set on the lowest strings.

As before, moving our bass note to the A string, the shapes remain the same. We just need to make sure our root note is still D.

Now the B string is involved, and we have new shapes to try out. Can you see how these fit in to the CAGED shapes?

From left to right, it's a fragment of the Cm shape, then Am shape, then Em shape.

Lastly, the top set. As you probably noticed, the second inversion here is just the top of the Open Dm chord.

And we're done! Maybe you're wondering why I chose D as our root today.

Since we've practiced our Major Triads in C, and now our Minor Triads in Dm, we're ready to put them together! Dm is diatonic to the key of C, after all.

Since music (usually) follows a chord progression, the real work with triads will begin when we start putting them together, looking at how we can move from one chord to the next within the triad framework.

When you're ready to get started, let's try out Triads with a C-Dm Vamp.