Triad Warm Ups

Take a note and think of it as the root of a triad, then as the 3rd of a triad, then as the 5th.
Use both major and minor triads.
Play up and down the triad over the whole range of the instrument.
The following example uses the note C. Do this off each of the 12 notes.
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An expanded version of this exercise is to do it for 7th chords not just triads:
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