What are inversions?
How do you invert anything in music?
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[jazz music playing]
I recently had a student ask "how do you invert
something?"
"What is an inversion?"
Well, we invert chords and before we can invert
any chord, we have to understand what root
position is.
Root position is when a chord's tonic or lowest
note, is in the bottom of the chord.
So take a look at a C chord.
The C is on the bottom and the rest of the
chord is built on thirds.
So an inversion is when the notes of the chord
is rearranged in a different order other than
root position.
So lets take a look at the triad.
In the triad we have three positions; root,
first inversion and second inversion.
Root position is when the tonic is in the
lowest position and the rest of the chord
is in thirds.
First inversion is when you take the root
position and the tonic and move it up an octave
and so that the third is on the bottom of
the cord to the inversion are the third and
fourth.
Second inversion is when you take the first
inversion, take the bottom note and move it
up an octave so that the fifth note of the
chord is on the bottom.
You now have the fifth on the bottom with
the tonic in the middle and the third on top.
And if we invert it one more time, you can
see that we are back to the root position,
but, just an octave higher.
So there you have it.
Those are inversions.
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