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Guthrie G had a great vid on the Tube about music as a language. It's worth a watch. If you think about how a child first communicates they use simplistic phrases. Triads are the musical equivalent; compact, simple, easy to manipulate and succinct in that they contain the raw DNA necessary to spell out a basic chord harmonically/melodically. Because of these attributes they are also something that you can actually use as opposed to trying to master a million arps/scales etc that you can never use in 'real time'
Yes they sound simplistic, unsophisticated but so did you when you uttered your first words and then began the journey of building competency at a subconscious level.
Is this the kind of thing?
https://online.berklee.edu/takenote/guitar-chords-101-triad-inversions-up-the-fretboard/
Also bear in mind that triads becomes a framework for extension/development. Once you know them well you can start seeing/adding in the 7ths and then other intervals. Overlay them diatonically over their major scale and you can fill in the ‘gaps’. Wanna get outside - start doing stuff like Carlton to create tensions.
They’re only one tool but bang for buck hard to beat..
+1 If I had my time again, of all the things I wish I'd got sorted much sooner, triads would be at the top of the list.
I think its also really important to understand that there's a hierarchy of competency as well. Learning all of the triads and inversions across strings is one thing. It's absolutely useless however if you haven't developed sufficient competency on knowing the notes of the fretboard and being able to think at the same time as you play. Notes of the fretboard is obvious but the level at which you need to know is not; it needs to be pretty much automatic. The mental side (thinking and playing) again takes development and is torture when you actively start working on it if it's something you've not really focussed on. It is however one of those things that really improves with effort. It's amazing what plates you can spin in your mind once you invest some effort.