[Triads: Bonus Workout]

Steve - 

Question about the harmonized major scale exercise in the bonus workout: why not simply play the vi chord rather than substituting the IV? Is it to keep the voicing relatively close?

Thanks!

[Triads Book (Major-Minor-Seventh)]

This is a truly amazing resource!

I completed the L&MG Course some years ago and moved on to explore jazz guitar, attending jazz workshops, taking private lessons, and finally - playing gigs regularly. This summer, I am attending an online jazz workshop and the instructor said he presumed we'd have the basic triad shapes nailed. It is the baseline for a course on jazz chord substitution. So I returned home to Steve's house and what do I discover - well-written, stepwise approach to triads, complete with video instruction. 

Steve - thanks so much for this - it's a life-saver!

Note: you mention that the riff you outlined on page 6 of the Minor Triads (1st-3rd strings) is a contrafact of a Pat Metheny tune, but you didn't mention which one... so I've been working through his discography searching for it. Like a lot his tunes, I recognize them by the melody and not by name. Well - I think I found it - it's Phase Dance on the Pat Metheny Group album. He repeats the theme in the second half of April Joy, also on that album, which he cut in 1978 with Danny Gottlieb, Mark Egan and Lyle Mays. It's on the ECM label.  It's a very memorable tune - thanks for sharing it.