Music Theory: Chord Inversions

[icespeckledhens]

Nice video

[mattaroggen]

F is the 4th of C dude

[mattaroggen]

the major 3rd of c# is F not E-does anybody else not agree?

[boblawblaws604]

@mattaroggen

No

[mattaroggen]

the major 3rd of c# is F not E

[boblawblaws604]

@mattaroggen

The F is a 4th

[SarahJonestoo]

Hi Andrew, really good video. Clear clear! Thanks. Now I know what 1st 2nd and 3rd inversions are!

[ChadLikesGuitars]

Andrew, are you tuned differently or something? Because you finger the 7th chord as if it were just a plain 135, weird.

[UrSkulled]

7th chord figured bass line up is, 765-4342. Look's like a phone number and it's easy to memorize those inversions.

7- root position

6 5 - 1st inversion 3rd in the bass.

4 3 - 2nd inversion 5th in the bass

4 2 - 3rd inversion 7th in the bass.

Feel free to correct anything, hope it helped someone.

[chemo86]

If you've got a chord without a seven, you can only do a root, first and second inversion? Like this:

Root: 135

First: 351

Second: 513

Also, this is only about the bass note right? The order of the other strings doesn't matter?

[jacobwisenbach123]

Hello andrew I have watched all of your videos and this video helps me alot but i was wondering if you could explain to me how you know how to stack the intervals of these chords i have tried to do that with my chords and i was wondering if a 4 note chord on 4 strings is a good way to do these chords please if you could do another video to explain this action of making these inversions would help me tremendously many thanks =]

[jacobwisenbach123]

Hello andrew I have watched all of your videos and this video helps me alot but i was wondering if you could explain to me how you know how to stack the intervals of these chords i have tried to do that with my chords and i was wondering if a 4 note chord on 4 strings is a good way to do these chords please if you could do another video to explain this action of making these inversions would help me tremendously many thanks =]

[deucehiflush]

Got a lot more information that i thought i would...Great Vid...Gonna watch all of them now! Thanks.

[adrainn]

You explained this so much easier than my teacher at my university theory class, Thanks for posting, it's helped alot!

[mercurialleeds]

Brilliant, watched all your lessons, keep them coming!!!

Chris

[ZappaIrl]

Rich sounding C.... not G

[animefanb0y]

So If you could make a video on that it would be priceless.

[animefanb0y]

It would be great if you could explain the use of such inversions. Like how these things relate to harmony, when should one use an inversion and not the root position chord.

There was a good video by Frank Gambale "Modes, no more mysteries" or something like that. He talks a lot there about modal chord progressions and adds a root of a scale to the bottom of all chords to emphasise the sound of the mode. But that's the only use of such chords that I know (not that I know much about harmony).

[creativeguitarstudio]

Hello animefanb0y,

Great idea. DONE!

Check out my video response titled:

"Guitar Theory: Voice Leading & Chord Inversions"

- Andrew Wasson

[Tomurow]

Brilliantly straightfoward as usual Andrew!

[ChyronIsChillin]

on videos that're not getting thousands and thousands of views like these, getting first view and comment isn't that cool. Plus you weren't even the first comment.

Meh, good vid Andrew.

[wannabeserpento99]

i was

[sacredgeometry]

good lesson

[drowzy721]

love the new banner above the info box Andrew! very professional