There’s a B.S. Way OR a REAL WAY To Learn CHORD INVERSIONS! TRULY Understanding How Simple They Are.

[Music] this is what they call second uh inversion but really who cares about this stuff you have them all at your fingertips they're all there they're all right there it's how do you use this to your benefit that's the question but with inversions [Music] all right welcome back to another episode of stitch method it's raining outside yes i'm back home in florida for a couple days before i hit the road again but let's talk today about cord inversions and the absolute like crap show that is out there trying to explain them uh my goal today is to try and really simplify them on guitar and really realize that guitar is probably the best instrument to understand how simple chord inversions are and how to utilize them in your music so with that being said let's get right down to it what is a chord inversion well first you really want to know what a chord is the chord is a series of notes stacked on top of each other today we're going to talk about just major chords minor chords stuff like that but a major chord let's just say you take an a bar chord like this all right that is a chord and the idea is is this chord is in what's called root position now you've probably heard this before but what that means is that this note right here which is the root is the bottom of the chord the thickest part in the bass what an inversion is is when this root note is not in the bottom of the bass and so i'm going to show you examples on guitar how easy really it is and how to incorporate it in your music basic fundamental knowledge of the cage court system is a bonus and a plus and highly suggested linked right here in case you don't know it so let me show you really quickly and we're going to thank thunder falcon by the way thunder falcon if you're watching thank you for the idea we were on uh guitar hacks channel doing an interview and you asked this question i thought it's a great question so bringing it to the masses all right so let's just take a c shape chord now from the cage chord system you kind of want to know how to do this stuff all right this is a c shaped g chord here is my root the root is in the bottom of the chord the thickest part so this guy here that's a g chord in root position now you might hear something called a first uh inversion and what that really means is when and now this is all like interval you know music talk it's when the major third is in the bottom of the chord now you don't have to think about it too much on guitar but right here is your major third if i just lift this pinky up and strum from this pinky oh sorry from this finger which is the ring finger forward this is a chord inversion the root is no longer in the bottom of the chord here is a root position [Music] this is a major third so this would be called first position just let you know when the major third is in the root that's it that's how simple it is now check this out one three five that's my fifth so you take this chord if you lift this one up if you lift this one up you're left with really just the seventh fret eighth fret and seventh fret and now you have the fifth of the chord in the bottom or thickest position this is called the second inversion you're probably like what but don't worry it's very easy to understand so a first inversion is when your root note is is in the thickest part of the guitar or the the lowest note of the chord [Music] and here is your major third if you strum from here that's the first inversion if you strum from this note here now if you look at the frets eight sorry ten nine seven eight seven i first strum from the ten took it away i strung the nine took that away here is the rest of the chord seven eight seven instead of playing it like this i can just play it like this this is still a chord but now the fifth is in the lowest position this is what they call second uh inversion but really who cares about this stuff when you're a guitar player you want to realize that you can play pieces of the cage chord as a chord all notes at the same time and you can get a root position you can play a little mini piece of the chord you can play an even more minor piece of the chord these are just inversions that's all it is and so i'm going to show you another one if you take a g shape chord all right and again you know cage chord knowledge is a plus here so if i take a g a g shaped chord here's my root right and so if i strum from here that's a first inversion sorry that's a root position root position don't listen to me if i lift this up here and i shrunk from this guy that's the major third wherever you have a one there's a third one fret back and one string over one three always on guitar except for the g and b string we'll talk about that later that's a root position here the same chord i just picked my pinky up and strummed from here that's what people would call a first inversion but really it's just a piece of the chord and if i lift this guy up i have this bar across five five and five [Music] one there's my three here's my five that's your second inversion second position version so root first inversion second version but i really don't care about this stuff i don't care about it i don't ever think about it when you're playing guitar you want to realize that you can play pieces of the cage chords when i have this guy here i can play the whole chord i can play this little tiny piece here oh sorry i can play these notes here by doing this i can play these notes here by doing this these are all chord inversions and you don't want to think of them too like you don't want to over complicate these things you know when you look at i'm so i'm not i mean like when you look at berkeley teaching these things they're like okay you know here's your first triad you know here's your second root sorry here's your root note this guy here's your third here's your fifth but when you look at them as a whole of your cage chords you have them all at your fingertips they're all there they're all right there all an inversion is is when the root is not in the thickest position so when you look at chords in the cage chord system i know i'm moving fast but i'm excited and i want to show you this in the cage chord system there are two main types of chords one where the first finger is playing the root and this is the e shape the a shape and the d shape then you have where the pinky is playing the root and that's the g and the c and when you look at these there are many inversions inside the chords smaller little pieces of chords you have let's start with the e a and d shape the idea is when you're playing this this type of chord the e the a or the d there's always going to be a one five and a one one five one one five one that's for the e shape if i move to the a shape one five one if i move to the d shape one five one so the inversions inside these chords take place after the five here or on the five so you have this guy in root position and then i can play this little chunk here but i don't need to play like this i can play it like this okay you're starting on the fifth okay that's the second inversion but who cares it's a piece of the chord it is a chord inversion the root is not in the bottom position you have this guy five seven seven six five you play this guy this is actually a root position because that's the root note here but look you also have the next piece six five five that's a major third if you look these are all a chords a chord a chord a chord a chord and those are all inversions it is so simple if you look at the a shaped chord here's your root position here's another triad sorry try oh my god campbell said that word i hate that word here is another inversion and here's another one version it's all inside the cage chord system and they're just pieces how do you use this to your benefit that's the question well on guitar it is so easy to see them working because you you really want to use these for the bass note and so let me show you what i mean okay when you're writing a song let's say you have g f and c fine and you want to write a um a melody or a part that's not just your basic root position chords you find another voicing okay so g let me get up here and play this g chord now check this out this is the c shape g chord but now i'm going to play from this note and now the root note becomes like the lead i can take this position down to the f now i want to find a c that's nearby and i know i can play a c chord like this but i'm keeping the root on the same string so this is your g chord but i'm playing an inversion and i'm playing a line based off of excuse me the d string and i'm finding chord pieces or inversions where i can pluck the note on the d string and create a melody [Music] and so you can create these base lines these these melodies that come off the lowest note of the chord but they're not the root let me take that same chord progression and use a different inversion here's a g shape chord well i'm going to come off this d here this now this little uh piece of the chord i'm going to use is so i can go now i can find an f here and then let's see where i can find a c um here so here back to f so here's another you know inversion built off a moving baseline using the string to create this linear motion [Music] and so when you're creating chord progressions you can create melodies using quarter versions just pieces of chords on your guitar neck excuse me i have to watch the time right now on your guitar neck to create moving linear bass lines and you know here's an example here's g f c f and you don't have to play the root and it sounds amazing sorry let me show you one of the best examples ever which is jack and diane the chord progression is a e and the songwriter or the guitar player didn't want to use those root position chords so we played an a here now this is this actually is a root position this is the one it comes from the a chord excuse me i just spit it comes from this a this sorry this e shaped a chord but here it is here and then for the e he finds the c shaped e chord but he's keeping the root and he's going here but he's playing from here moves this down two two frets the d chord the c shape d chord [Music] so it gets a [Music] e [Music] so you can hear inversions on guitar help you create moving melodies across the string or down the string and up the string and so when you can think of different pieces of chords you get different bass lines that create such a cool melody another great riff i like is this riff here which is i'll show you it's it's just awesome it uses all corn versions and that of course being the song free by one of my favorite bands fish and if you look it's a d chord to a c chord to an e minor d uh g d but what trey anastasio does is he creates the melody or the moving piece on the g string and instead of playing the full e shape d chord he's just playing the inversion that starts right here instead of this whole thing he's just playing this [Music] comes up with a little melody based off the chord moves that move this inversion down to the c now he needs to go to an e minor which is here so he plays off of these three strings here's the a minor shape he just grabs the inversion piece that that is played on the same three strings here's a d chord he plays off the same three strings back to a g chord d so these inversions help create the melody if i played that chord progression without these inversions it would sound like this like [Applause] and so inversions are just pieces of chords don't overthink it again you can look up online there's like a play play this play this play this and if you don't see them as just pieces of your caged chords you can do it from minor you can do it for seventh chords they are just pieces and on guitar is so awesome because you can create lines that move the bass line up and down a string creating really cool melodies just like i showed you and if you want to practice this stuff really well with some extra content come join me on my patreon page going to make some awesome videos and how to really work this into your system with different chord progressions in different places so it helps like concrete the idea don't overthink chord inversions they are just pieces of the chords that you already know that is it thank you so much thunder falcon and guitar hack for having me on your channel and thank you so much for watching another episode of stitch method and i'll see you guys soon don't forget to share and subscribe bye you

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Length: 15min 8sec (908 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 27 2020