 Hi, we are now ready to begin vertical theory lesson two This takes our discussion of triads major and minor triads that we had in our last lesson and builds on that There are two new concepts that we're going to learn today the first of those concepts is Taking that notion of a major and minor triad and now developing it a little further into that of an augmented and a Diminished triad that's first and then the second part of the lesson today is learning the Inversions of a triad now we've inverted intervals before now. We're going to invert triads So I think this is going to be an interesting lesson in one that sits pretty quickly I don't think it's really all that difficult if you've really understood everything coming up to this time So let's go ahead and go to work. We are going to begin with the notion of Diminished and augmented triads now last week we said that a minor triad is Three notes root third and fifth that consists of a major third and a minor third And we also said that a minor thigh at triad is a root third and fifth that consists of a minor third and a major third You should understand that concept well at this point and now we're ready to move on to the next two now This ought to be pretty simple for you a diminished triad or Is going to be one that has three notes a root a third and a fifth and wonder if anybody can guess minor third on the bottom and Minor third on the top. That's what you guessed. You're absolutely right and an augmented triad same deal a root a third and a fifth with a Major third on the bottom and a Major third on the top and now you can see the four different versions of a triad Major, which is a major on the bottom minor on the top a minor, which is a minor on the bottom major on the top a Diminished which consists of two minor thirds and an augmented which consists of two major thirds Let's take a look at a couple of different examples of all three of these if we have our good old C E and G This is a major triad major third from C to E and minor third from E to G If we take that middle note the third and we make the E flat the E flat That's going to give us our minor triad Okay, from there. I think you can start to quickly see that if we made The top note flat as well or made it smaller. This would give us a minor third Just like here and instead of a major third we have a minor third here So this would be our diminished chord and you can still use that that circle to indicate diminished and Finally from C to E is a major third and to G Sharp is another major third. This would give us our Augmented chord so this would be a C major chord over here C minor C diminished and C augmented all three versions of the C triad Okay, simple enough. I think that probably is something that you can all Grab on to really quite quickly and now let's move on to the other half of today's lesson And that is the notion of inversions now remember when we took an interval before and Here we have a third and if we wanted to invert that interval we would simply put that lower note on Top right so now we're going to do something very similar with a chord Okay, and with our chords. Let's take that good old C chord that we were just using This is a C major triad and This is in what we call root position. That is the position where the root is on the bottom Okay, so root third fifth now if I take that lowest note and I put it now on the top I Take the C I Take it out off the bottom and move it up to the top This would be still a C major chord But now it's in what we call first Inversion Okay, and that is taking the bottom note or the root and putting the root on the top Okay, this is also sometimes known as the sixth inversion Okay, and the reason it's known as a sixth in a sixth inversion is because the distance from the third Up to the root is now a sixth Okay Then our other option would be to leave the G on the bottom and move the other two notes up and This would be what we this would still be a C major Chord but this is second inversion and it's sometimes known as a six four Inversion because the distance between this note the bottom note to the to the root is a fourth And the distance from that bottom note to the top note is a sixth and therefore it gets that name the six four inversion So we have three different ways of writing a triad. We can show a triad in root position Which is when we see it the way we're used to seeing it root third fifth We can have it in First inversion or the sixth inversion where the root is on the top and the third is the lowest note and Then we can have the six four inversion where the root is in the middle The third is above that and the fifth is on the bottom three different versions Let's just take a quick minute It's really quite easy to identify these Quickly, let's just take a look if you were to see something that looks like this or like this You know that those are both in root position as soon as you see a third and then another note a Sixth above the bottom note you know that that's in the sixth the sixth inversion Okay, and something that looks like this immediately should jump out at you as a Six-four Inversion here's another six There's an example of another six inversion or first inversion and here's another second inversion Something that looks like this would be another second inversion six four. That's another six Okay, so we have three different versions of the same thing now I might ask you to write and identify The three different versions of any particular chord. So if I asked for a a major Triad in all three inversions you would start with an a you'd know that it would need an a a c and an e you could quickly go to our Keyboard find your a and say okay. It needs to be a major third a One two three four. There's my four half steps. That's a c-sharp and One two three half steps. That's my e So I could go okay. It's an a c-sharp e. That's my root position Now I'm going to leave the c-sharp and the e where they were but move the a to the top that's my six and Now I'm going to go in this fashion and this is my six four inversion three different inversions of the a Major triad we can do that for major triads. We can do it for minor triads diminished and augmented Okay, time for you to check out the assignment. You'll have Things to do both with augmented and diminished triads as well as the three different inversions of a triad