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Music Theory: Chord Inversions

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Andrew Wasson of Creative Guitar Studio covers the world of chord inversions through helping viewers to understand the basics of chord structure.

Voicinings, inversion principles, positions and slash chord notation are all covered.

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http://www.creativeguitarstudio.com/lessons/music_theory/chord_inversions.php
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  • 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).

  • Hello animefanb0y,

    Great idea. DONE!

    Check out my video response titled:

    "Guitar Theory: Voice Leading & Chord Inversions"

    - Andrew Wasson

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  • Brilliantly straightfoward as usual Andrew!

  • good lesson

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  • Nice video

  • F is the 4th of C dude

  • @mattaroggen

    The F is a 4th

  • @mattaroggen

    No

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

  • the major 3rd of c# is F not E

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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?

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