Chords for Larry Carlton'sGuitar Lesson

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Okay, [B] that's just a little something I wanted to throw in for you.
_ _ _ Next thing I want to talk about though is I get a lot of questions about _ triads.
_ I used to use a lot of triad approach, back in the 70s especially. _
_ After working many years with Terry Trotter, _ _ I started not using the triad approach as
much and becoming a more linear player because Terry explained to me a lot of things about doing that.
We'll get into that another time.
_ But I think the best example _ _ of the triad approach is a song I wrote called Don't Give It Up.
_ And most of you have heard it, but the melody goes, and it's all [C] triads.
_ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ It's in the key of G.
[B] And I'll play that for you one more time so you can just [C] see the lick.
_ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ [Bbm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Okay, what I discovered when I was thinking about presenting this to you is that if you
find a progression, just in fifths, _ _ that you like, you can play that cycle _ in triads.
That's what happened with this.
It went _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
G to [Gm] F, B flat to A flat.
_ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ So let's find one just quickly.
I don't have one prepared.
Let's do _ G to C to B flat. _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
Now I will play that in triads.
[E] _ _
G, C, B flat.
_ One, two, three, _ [C] four.
[G] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ Let's [Eb] do them twice as fast.
[E] _ _ G [B] to C to B flat [G] to G.
One, two.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Any progression you make up, you can _ fit your triads in there if you so desire.
That's the whole [N] point of this.