Ive been trying to get my hands on a solid set of resources for learning about these and their uses, does anyone have a direction to point me in?
Rick beato posted a vid ON YOUTUBE the other day called
Spread triads for noobs.
I use the Carl Verheyen method to make my own. Take a triad on strings 432 and move the note on the 3rd string up an octave onto the 1st string. Really helpful when adding second guitar parts & it keeps electric guitar strums from getting muddy.
Also, and more conventially, known as, open-voiced triads.
Yeah, they’re just triads - move one note up or down an octave and rock out. They sound awesome played as chords distorted, are a lot of fun to arpeggiate, and are just fun to play with - experiment a bit and see what happens. Maybe start with a famiiliar chord position and voice it in a couple different ways with open triads.
There is also the concept of “low intervall limits”, meaning that certain intervalls don’t sound “good” any more below a certain pitch. For example a major 3rd starts to sound unfocused and muddy below Bb (6. fret on low E-string).
Spread triads have a 5th or 6th as lowest intervall which you can then move down lower. I use spread voicings a lot since i play mostly large scale baritones tuned very low.
This is no iron rule however, but it can help if a chord sound muddy and unclear.
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