Try It! 13 Triad Pair Etudes- All Transpositions

This collection of Etudes is composed primarily using triad pairs that are linked by whole step and tri-tone, as you’ll explore throughout the book.  

As a young student, I remember finding Gary Campbell’s Triad Pairs for Jazz method book life-changing, as it helped distill otherwise difficult sounds (V7alt as an example) into two triad pairs, linked in creative ways. So much so, that I wrote a short e-book on the topic called Crash Course: Triad Pairs, that helped me flesh out some of the most useful parts of the book into my own playing. 

Over the years, I’ve found that triad pairs have been a very useful and worthwhile device to study, practice and integrate into my own improvisation and pedagogy. 

It’s my hope that the Etudes, along with their written analysis, will give you an insight into the power of triad pairs as applied to many different chords/sounds and that you’ll find use for them in your own playing. 

Have fun playing along with or without the soloist accompaniment and happy shedding.