Find Closed Triads: Three Notes, Stacked Tight

The short answer: Find Closed Triads gives you a major or minor triad and a zone, and you find its three notes stacked tightly on adjacent strings. A closed triad is the most compact form of a chord — root, 3rd, 5th with no gaps — and knowing them across the neck is a comping and soloing superpower.

What the game is

You get a chord and a highlighted region; you find the three notes packed onto neighboring strings. Because triads are so small, they fit in places full barre chords never could — and they appear all over the neck once you can spot them.

What it teaches

• The three inversions of every major and minor triad on adjacent strings.
• How the same chord recurs, in small shapes, up and down the neck.
• The 3rds and 5ths that give a chord its major or minor quality.

Why it's cool

Triads are the sweet spot between single notes and big chords — small enough to slot into a solo or a chord-melody, complete enough to state the harmony. Closed triads are the compact ones that go everywhere.

Where to start

Read the complete guide to triads on guitar, then the Closed Triads course. How chords are built from scales explains where they come from.