Guitar Triads Chart (Augmented)

Guitar Triads (Augmented) Hi, I'm Grey, and this is Hub Guitar. We're going to talk about augmented triads today. These are like a major triad except the fifth of the chord is raised by half step. If you don't know what I mean by that, a little theory is in order. Within a major scale, the distance to the first note to the third note is called a major third. There are three half-steps in between, so the major third is the note that is four half-steps above the root. An augmented triad is built by stacking two of these on top of each other. For C major I would need C [1,2,3,4] and E. And then E [1,2,3,4] to G#. A C major augmented triad is C E G#. Let's try another one. From A major I would need A [1,2,3,4] to C# and C# [1,2,3,4] to the note F here, although actually I will still like to call it E# because I don't want to change the letter from F to G. Don't worry too much about this technicality. On the guitar, these triads are symmetrical, meaning there's really only one chord shape to learn and you've learned them all. Let's get started. Here are our augmented triads on strings 654 in A: [demonstration of 654] Let's move those to strings 543: [demonstration] And now to strings 432. Note that the pattern looks a bit different here. The highest note has crossed over the chasm of the B string, which means that now I need to raise the highest pitched note by one half step to make sure it reaches the correct pitch. We'll learn more on this later. [demonstration] Now to strings 321. On this one, the top two notes look like the old pattern but from the first one to the second one does not. That's because I had to raise the second note now because that's the note that crosses onto the B string.