The MAGIC Of Third Inversion Chords [Chord Progression Music Theory]

hello internets nice to see you today I want to talk about the magic of third inversion chords now what is a third inversion well let's say that you have a triad a major chord let's say you have the G major chord the notes in G major a G B D if when we play G major we play with the G not at the base we have the chord in root position if when you play the G major chord we put the B at the base which is the third we have the first inversion if instead we put the fifth the deep at the base we have the second inversion and that's it for a triad there is no third inversion but if rather than having a G major triad we had the G dominant seventh chord it has notes G B D F then when I put the seventh the F at the base I get a third inversion chord [Music] this core by itself is slightly dissonant and it works only in the right context so how do we use them we're gonna see right now a few suggestions that you can use chords like that in your next song first of all let me remark that this code here g7 in third inversion it's usually written G /f which means the G chord with the F knot at the base now since g7 is the fifth chord in the key of C let's working the key of C that has notes c d e f g a b first we do everything for G's lash F and then we see what we can do with the other third inversion chords in the key so again this chord is unstable by itself which means that it needs to be resolved how do you resolve a third inversion chord well we know that normally the fifth chord of the key g7 results the first chord of the key C major that is a fifth below and in general every chord can move to the core that is one fifth below in the key so it seems logical that these G slash have results somehow to some form of C major now one general pattern in tonal music that everybody should know but somehow few people know is that the seventh of the chord tends very strongly to resolve down if you did not know that then my suggestion would be to go immediately and have a look at my course complete code mastery and we talked about this and everybody else you need to know about chord because this little thing it's absolutely fundamental to make thing sound good when you play tonal music anyway the seventh of the chord resolves down the F at the base of G slash F is the 7th of the chord and so it will move down when we resolve the chord so the G code resolves the C chord the coda fifth below like it's normal internal music and then the F not resolves down to the in ode which is in the C chord but is now played at the base so the / half corn resolves to the sea / ecord all these may look complex the first time you see it but it's in fact quite natural and it plays beautifully [Music] and of course this is just the main resolution of the third inversion chord there are other way to move after a third inversion chord but right now we see only this now most people who say the music theory read what I just explained to you in a book then they close the book and then they try to play this and they find out that the third inversion chords do not work why because this is just half the story the other half of the story is that since the court is dissonant you need to introduce or prepare the chord mean if you have to play a specific chord before the third inversion chord specifically there are two ways to prepare a g / f option number one is to play the same triad g in root position so you're going to have a chord progression like C then G triad then G / F and then you resolve to see / E [Music] option number two is before g / f you play the triad built on the base of the chord the base is F and the triad build on F is f major so you can have a chord progression like C F that prepares G slash have and then resolve to see / E [Music] now let's see all the third inversion chords in the key of C major so you have all the possibilities spelled out for you the Triads in C our C major D minor E minor F G a minor and B diminished triad the seventh chord our C major seven D minor 7 e minor 7 F major 7 G dominant 7 a minor 7 and B minor 7th flat 5 so the 3rd inversion chords RC /b d minor / c e minor / d f / e g / f a minor / g and the b diminished triad / a all those chords are usable even if by themselves they sound strange if you prepare them and resolve them like I shown before they sound great so here just a couple of example let's say I want to use c / b i'm gonna prepare the chord and I'm gonna use the C chord I'm gonna play the first C then C / B then I'm gonna resolve this chord the chord down 1/5 from C it's F following the cycle of fifths and the bass note B goes down to the anal so I get an F / a and F in first inversion and after that I'm gonna play a G chord and a C chord just to round up the chord progression here's how it sounds [Music] let's say instead we want to use D minor /c I have to prepare this code and this time I'm gonna prepare it the other way so I'm gonna take the Triad built on the base which is C so I'm going to study the C chord then play D minor /c d minor is also fifth down the G chord the C note goes down to B's have a g /b a G in first inversion and then I'm going to put at the end a C code just to round up the chord progression [Music] another example using f /e I'm gonna prepare this chord by playing an F triad just before then the F resolves down the cycle of v so it's gonna resolve to a be diminished triad and I know that the resolve may not be the right word here but believe me it's gonna work the e naught resolves down to these I'm gonna have a B diminished triad with a base of D or a B diminished trial if you want in first inversion I'm gonna put a sig horde at the beginning at the end just to fix in mind the fact that we are on the c major key and to round up the chord progression and it sounds this way [Music] [Applause] [Music] of course those are just a few simple example there is much more that you can do with third inversion chords and with other inversion and other ways to put together chords and you can find all of that in my course complete code mastery complete code mastery is not a book it's a complete video course made by guitar players for guitar players there are no examples made on the piano everything is done directly on the fretboard so it's immediately applicable to all guitar players you do all your theories straight on your instrument and you learn immediately how to apply this to your own song in a creative way if you liked this video you totally want to check out complete code mastery so click on the link on the top right and of course if you like this video smash that like button don't forget to subscribe otherwise YouTube will not tell you when I put up my next video and if you have any comments please write them down in the comments I love hearing from you guys and I read all my comments this is Thomas of Xillia a mystery for guitar calm and until next time enjoy

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Keywords: third inversion chords, chords inversion, first inversion chord, second inversion chord, root positions chords, 7th chords, voice leading, resolution, music theory for guitar, tommaso zillio

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Length: 9min 18sec (558 seconds)

Published: Mon May 18 2020