Finally - someone explained HOW to practice chord inversions. I see all over that you SHOULD, but as a beginner didn't quite understand HOW to apply it. Thanks!
And when you know all these, continue with the maj7, dominant7, minor7, diminished7 chords, they have 4 inversions each so you must learn 4 x 12 x 4 = 192 chord shapes 🤯 But learning them will become easier with the practice 😉
I've been trying to learn music for 20 years and no one has explained it to me in a way where I can understand until I saw this video. I am so excited to start practicing now that I understand the theory behind it thank you for posting
Extremely helpful! I had a teacher explain this to me as being just "playing the closest available chord". It would've originally been easier if they had explained the 1-4-5 progression being root-2nd-1st inversion, and then kept the same pattern when you start on different inversions (starting at 1st you would play 1st-root-2nd, etc.)
My jaw just dropped at @ ...... when all of a sudden he just went up and down the keyboard with all those inversions ----- and played them 'at will'. That was really good. And then my jaw dropped again later into the video - after seeing that the teacher was able to play ALL the possible inversions - any one of them - at any time. That was awesome actually.
@Marry Christmas nah, you are just lazy, There a ton of that kind of piano, drum or setup already, Yet they only good in game not in real world It train you to follow the instruction but not train you how to think for yourself
Sam I hope all is well I feel like God laid this on my heart for me to send you this message! The Bible verses that changed my life which was Acts 2:36-43. I just wanted to say that Jesus Christ can restore your life and that is a promise according to Acts 2:39, and God loves you. If you’re in need of a good church near you here you go: www.upci.org/resources/locate-a-church God bless have a great one 🙂. I prayed for you I hope all is well 🙂
Thank you for producing this video. I've been playing for a year and I'm well aware that there are holes in my knowledge. Your exercises make theory practice so much more interesting. Thank you.
OK, I'm watching this for the third time and I'm still practicing this. I've remembered it but I haven't mastered it yet. But for some reason, I'm perseverent. I'm also doing this going up the circle of fourths and fifths. But I am doing all the different possibilities of the inversions. You are a good teacher, since I was able to put this into my practice routine, come back for a refresher and have no surprises.
great tips as usual, something I found useful is to always bear the chord key note in mind, especially for second and third inversions where the first and the third note of a basic triad always form a 4th interval. For instance, for a C major chord (the 4th interval indicated in brackets): E(GC) (GC)E (GC) interval remains the same. This true for both major and minor chords. Now, the middle note of major triad being a Major 2nd interval when added on the right-hand-side of the 4th interval BUT a minor 2nd interval if added on the left-hand-side of the 4th interval: m2(GC) (GC)M2 The opposite is true for a minor chord. M2(GC) (GC)m2 Practising 4th as intervals comes in handy then, while navigating a m2 or M2 is visually easier.
This was great, been searching for "learning piano chords and scales" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Ever heard of - Nonason Ranincoln Genie - (just google it )? It is a smashing exclusive product for discovering how to play the piano like a pro minus the hard work. Ive heard some super things about it and my buddy got excellent results with it.
@@mykasiurka IMO there is no substitute for hard work when learning piano. It's the "hard" part that makes us learn more effectively. If all learning were easy then it probably means we aren't learning very effectively. When "hard" becomes easy, through practice, that is a sure sign that effective learning is taking place. Just my opinion :)
Thank you very much for taking the time to help us beginners who cannot afford private lessons with these type of videos. teachers always says to learn scales in 12 keys but never create any systematic way of doing or practicing the scales. I cannot wait to see another video showing how to use these inversions in song. thank you for your service sir.
Great lesson! I’ve been playing for about two years but everything I write and play is in root position. I’m a lazy practicer, but I will definitely be working on this! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us.
thanks lot for this great video... this is the best answer to the mail I sent you few days ago : daily routine that makes my next 2 years not so boring ;)... you're the best.
That was your informative article, here are a few more tips on how to play the piano… Try practicing for 1 hour every day, or 1/2 an hour if you short of time. Do extra practice whenever you have more time. For example, on weekends you could do more than 1 hour, like two or 3, or even more. This is very helpful because it pulls you out of the routine of piano playing, and lets you practice more and perfect the pieces you play. Listen to the song or piano piece you are playing. For example, if you are taking piano lessons and are about to play a new piece, you can try searching on the internet for videos or songs and hear how it sounds. This can be very helpful because it teaches you how a song is played and lets you recognize the 'emotion,' the piece is giving out. Try not to look at the dynamics in a piece, as rules you cannot break. For example, if the piece starts with an 'mp' (mezzo-piano) it only means 'moderately soft' these dynamics don't have specific volume levels. If you are practicing, you don't need to play accordingly and then have a difficulty hearing yourself, you should only play as it tells you when you are actually trying to play it properly. Practice sight-reading and don't worry about making mistakes. This can be very helpful, because it's almost like scanning a paragraph and looking at the picture. It helps you to understand what the passage is trying to convey before you actually read it and lets you know what comes next. This is the same with music, and it can help you stop making mistakes. (I discovered about these and more on Denelle piano lesson site )
If you start with all the 12 major and minor chords first, thats the real memorisation, then the inversion you can just practice like he shows. Just let ur brain learn
Mitch Dresen I hope all is well I feel like God laid this on my heart for me to send you this message! The Bible verses that changed my life which was Acts 2:36-43. I just wanted to say that Jesus Christ can restore your life and that is a promise according to Acts 2:39, and God loves you. If you’re in need of a good church near you here you go: www.upci.org/resources/locate-a-church God bless have a great one 🙂. I prayed for you I hope all is well 🙂
@@joshuadity Dude I'm a Christian, but that is the most random thing I've seen on the internet. That kind of method on what youre doing won't work 99% of the time.
@@joshuadity @UCLzaA-NDKN0TVskK0mBDjJw keep doing what you're doing. Regardless of whether it "works" or not, we should rejoice when someone boldly shares God's Word. After all, it never returns void right? (Isaiah 55:11)
Really good but would be great to know where to find out the figure changes if you haven't learnt piano classically etc. And how important it it/isn't to use specific figures on each inversion as you progress / want to inversion shift to create parts etc thank you
thanks a lot for sharing. I have been struggling to find a good way to learn and memorize the inversions, very useful. I guess exercise # 2 can be done with minor chords too, but sound is a bit strange. Thanks again and best regards!
Hi, Nice explanation and excercises!! But how to practice different inversions on both hands?(holding base on left and practicing inversions on left is fine).For eg: 2nd inversion of the chord on my left and root of the chord on my right. Could you please give some on this tips?
Amal Raj Hello Amal. I’m only a beginner but maybe if I share with you my routine (based on this lesson) it might work well for you too. I’ll do root, 1st and 2nd of the 1 chord. Then the R, 1st and 2nd of the 4. Then the R, 1st and 2nd of the 5. Then I’ll go through the Ex. #2 about 5 times with one hand at a slow 1 per beat at 60 bpm. After that Ex # 2 about 10 times at 2 per beat at 60 bpm. Then I repeat the process with my left hand. Then I also do Ex. #3. Then I do hands together of the process from the beginning. Sometimes I find that it takes a little longer to get the “...10 times at 2 per beat at 60 bpm” when I’m playing both hands but I only started practicing this lesson 2 days ago. I think I’ll try alternate inversion/root when simply going through the same chord when using both hands, as you mentioned in your question. Also, here is the fingering I use ,for the right hand , that seems to be working well for me if you want to give it a try. Root- 1,2 and 3; 1st Inv.-1,2 and 4; 2nd Inv.- 1,2 and 3. My 2nd Inv. fingering is considered to be unorthodox but it seems to be making this exercise really easy. Doing only the 1st inversion with each hand separately and chromatically a few times (same for the 2nd inversion) really helped too.
Hi amazing video...learned a lot! Its a request please... If you could share how to practice these inversion with scale...that will be very useful Thank you
there's one thing I don't understand: is it recommended to use specific fingerings for chord inversions, or wherever the fingers fall comfortably is ok?
Tahnks sir for the excercise really helpful. For exercise 2 what would you suggest should we practice with both hands simultaneously or just individually? Thanks again
Excellent tutorial. Every beginner should take these routines very seriously if he/she really want to progress.
Finally - someone explained HOW to practice chord inversions. I see all over that you SHOULD, but as a beginner didn't quite understand HOW to apply it. Thanks!
Thank you for this video! I have problem practice these 72 ways to practice and getting bored.
Brilliant idea to practice. Thank you! Now I can go back to practice with your guidance. I was so frustrated and bored.
And when you know all these, continue with the maj7, dominant7, minor7, diminished7 chords, they have 4 inversions each so you must learn 4 x 12 x 4 = 192 chord shapes 🤯 But learning them will become easier with the practice 😉
I've been trying to learn music for 20 years and no one has explained it to me in a way where I can understand until I saw this video. I am so excited to start practicing now that I understand the theory behind it thank you for posting
Extremely helpful! I had a teacher explain this to me as being just "playing the closest available chord". It would've originally been easier if they had explained the 1-4-5 progression being root-2nd-1st inversion, and then kept the same pattern when you start on different inversions (starting at 1st you would play 1st-root-2nd, etc.)
There is no way ever I can be thankful enough to you. Thank you!
My jaw just dropped at @ ...... when all of a sudden he just went up and down the keyboard with all those inversions ----- and played them 'at will'. That was really good. And then my jaw dropped again later into the video - after seeing that the teacher was able to play ALL the possible inversions - any one of them - at any time. That was awesome actually.
This are the fundamentals very important alot of piano players are getting stuck because they neglected this exercise.
@Marry Christmas nah, you are just lazy,
There a ton of that kind of piano, drum or setup already,
Yet they only good in game not in real world
It train you to follow the instruction but not train you how to think for yourself
Sam I hope all is well I feel like God laid this on my heart for me to send you this message! The Bible verses that changed my life which was Acts 2:36-43. I just wanted to say that Jesus Christ can restore your life and that is a promise according to Acts 2:39, and God loves you.
If you’re in need of a good church near you here you go:
www.upci.org/resources/locate-a-church God bless have a great one 🙂. I prayed for you I hope all is well 🙂
@@huynhdangkhuong8310 Pianoforall is good but there are lots of others out there ! This guy is good enough for what I need as a beginner!
What other exercises would you call fundamental?
@@d3ad48 2 octave scales and diatonic chords, relative minor scales, arpeggios 2 octaves, contary motion scales
I love how you break things down to the basics...you answer questions before I ask them
Awesome, thanks Ryan!
Thank you for producing this video. I've been playing for a year and I'm well aware that there are holes in my knowledge. Your exercises make theory practice so much more interesting. Thank you.
OK, I'm watching this for the third time and I'm still practicing this. I've remembered it but I haven't mastered it yet. But for some reason, I'm perseverent. I'm also doing this going up the circle of fourths and fifths. But I am doing all the different possibilities of the inversions.
You are a good teacher, since I was able to put this into my practice routine, come back for a refresher and have no surprises.
great tips as usual, something I found useful is to always bear the chord key note in mind, especially for second and third inversions where the first and the third note of a basic triad always form a 4th interval. For instance, for a C major chord (the 4th interval indicated in brackets):
E(GC)
(GC)E
(GC) interval remains the same. This true for both major and minor chords.
Now, the middle note of major triad being a Major 2nd interval when added on the right-hand-side of the 4th interval BUT a minor 2nd interval if added on the left-hand-side of the 4th interval:
m2(GC)
(GC)M2
The opposite is true for a minor chord.
M2(GC)
(GC)m2
Practising 4th as intervals comes in handy then, while navigating a m2 or M2 is visually easier.
This was great, been searching for "learning piano chords and scales" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Ever heard of - Nonason Ranincoln Genie - (just google it )?
It is a smashing exclusive product for discovering how to play the piano like a pro minus the hard work. Ive heard some super things about it and my buddy got excellent results with it.
@@mykasiurka IMO there is no substitute for hard work when learning piano. It's the "hard" part that makes us learn more effectively. If all learning were easy then it probably means we aren't learning very effectively. When "hard" becomes easy, through practice, that is a sure sign that effective learning is taking place. Just my opinion :)
Sir, I am indebted to you for the many great instructional videos. my techniques have so much improved
Thank you for going into the details of practicing inversions
Absolutely love your lessons. Please give us more inversion excercises.
Thank you very much for taking the time to help us beginners who cannot afford private lessons with these type of videos. teachers always says to learn scales in 12 keys but never create any systematic way of doing or practicing the scales. I cannot wait to see another video showing how to use these inversions in song. thank you for your service sir.
Your “Simple Exercise for Practicing & Remembering Chords” video is the perfect prerequisite for this lesson.
Best exercises for chord inversions.
Much appreciated effort.
THANK YOU ! This is exactly where I’m at on my piano journey, and exactly what I needed to organize my practice. GREAT VIDEO !
Glad it was helpful!
Understanding & playing inversions musically in one brief lesson. Thank you.
Great lesson! I’ve been playing for about two years but everything I write and play is in root position. I’m a lazy practicer, but I will definitely be working on this! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us.
Great! It's very important to get the different inversions under your belt. You will find it really opens up a lot of possibilities while playing.
@@MangoldProject by not going so , it’s definitely holding me back. You are he best teacher. I learned everything from you, I’m forever grateful.
Finally someone explained how to practice chord inversions..many many thanks sir....❤❤
This makes so much sense. The idea is, like you say, go slow at first and concentrate on what you are playing.
Many thanks for this excellent tutorial.
Cristal clear explanation for a beginer like me. Grateful.
Christian from France
I appreciate you taking time to share lesson with me I am learning alot.
Explained in simple way. Great exercises. Thank you.
Thanks so much for this basic information. God bless you 🙏
Clear explaination and easy to understand. Best content until now 🙌
Amazing teacher with most helpful and practical suggestions!
Thank you very much! This is one of the best way to practice inversions, I found so far.
Thanks Zayne. Glad to hear it helped you out.
You are a genuine teacher. thanks a lot
Thanks!
Thank you so much. Lots of work. Good for my ears as well.
you're channel is my boot camp
Great exercise teacher. Hope you keep doing all these great videos for us.
Thanks from Brazil!
thanks lot for this great video... this is the best answer to the mail I sent you few days ago : daily routine that makes my next 2 years not so boring ;)... you're the best.
That was your informative article, here are a few more tips on how to play the piano…
Try practicing for 1 hour every day, or 1/2 an hour if you short of time.
Do extra practice whenever you have more time. For example, on weekends you could do more than 1 hour, like two or 3, or even more. This is very helpful because it pulls you out of the routine of piano playing, and lets you practice more and perfect the pieces you play.
Listen to the song or piano piece you are playing. For example, if you are taking piano lessons and are about to play a new piece, you can try searching on the internet for videos or songs and hear how it sounds. This can be very helpful because it teaches you how a song is played and lets you recognize the 'emotion,' the piece is giving out.
Try not to look at the dynamics in a piece, as rules you cannot break. For example, if the piece starts with an 'mp' (mezzo-piano) it only means 'moderately soft' these dynamics don't have specific volume levels. If you are practicing, you don't need to play accordingly and then have a difficulty hearing yourself, you should only play as it tells you when you are actually trying to play it properly.
Practice sight-reading and don't worry about making mistakes. This can be very helpful, because it's almost like scanning a paragraph and looking at the picture. It helps you to understand what the passage is trying to convey before you actually read it and lets you know what comes next. This is the same with music, and it can help you stop making mistakes.
(I discovered about these and more on Denelle piano lesson site )
@@animaki5372 Do you have a hard copy of this, something I can print and take to the piano? Thanks
"The goal here is not to be a Speed Demon" :D Such a good teacher and high high quality of videos...
You are the best of best teacher! Thank you for all the wonderful info!
I love your videos and knowdlege you share I am a beginner in piano learning and your videos helps me to be creative and practice in better way ❤️
I've only recently discovered/found your channel. Love your lessons, many many thanks.
Great tutorial, as always. It's also worth, IMO, arpeggiating the triads as well as playing them in block form.
You kiss your mother with that mouth?
Excellent teacher and very methodical too!
Your explanation is marvelous.
If there are thousands like... i will give it all to you... really very nice videos...
this is the one I'm going to stick to!! thank you
Great advice...I have seen improvement bringing the chords "into my hands". I write
little progressions to change it up.
Nicely explained.Thanks for posting
Best of the Best teaching SIR, please keep going.
Best lesson i ever had
So I've been playing for 3 months and making another comment as I watch this video again. Great suggestions, and I'll be putting them into practice.
Thank you. This gives me some direction in my practicing.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for your advice on ways to practice cording.
best video out there on chord inversions thanks
thank you very much, this is helping a lot with learning how to play and remember triads. Also, I'm finally noticing the interval patterns lol.
Great! One step at a time.
Just curious, how long did it take you to get comfortable with every inversion? Great video by the way, thank you.
If you start with all the 12 major and minor chords first, thats the real memorisation, then the inversion you can just practice like he shows. Just let ur brain learn
Mitch Dresen I hope all is well I feel like God laid this on my heart for me to send you this message! The Bible verses that changed my life which was Acts 2:36-43. I just wanted to say that Jesus Christ can restore your life and that is a promise according to Acts 2:39, and God loves you.
If you’re in need of a good church near you here you go:
www.upci.org/resources/locate-a-church God bless have a great one 🙂. I prayed for you I hope all is well 🙂
@@joshuadity Dude I'm a Christian, but that is the most random thing I've seen on the internet. That kind of method on what youre doing won't work 99% of the time.
@@joshuadity @UCLzaA-NDKN0TVskK0mBDjJw keep doing what you're doing. Regardless of whether it "works" or not, we should rejoice when someone boldly shares God's Word. After all, it never returns void right? (Isaiah 55:11)
@@lnambz That ain't my point. Just because God encourages us to share God's Word doesn't mean every minute is the right time to share it.
I play exercise 2 with both hands but using different inversions on each and then reverse. I think it helps.
Thanks for the tutorials.
Thank you, I will do my Best. Little by little by little.
Thank you . Dear. Sir
It was indeed helpful to know music better .
Best tutorial chord inversions lessons , thank you so much
Really good but would be great to know where to find out the figure changes if you haven't learnt piano classically etc. And how important it it/isn't to use specific figures on each inversion as you progress / want to inversion shift to create parts etc thank you
this is great! But how do you know which fingers to use for each shape?
"speed demon"
You sounded like an old geezer angry at young piano hooligans 😂😂
Thank you for these tutorials and presentation style!
Glad you like them!
Thanks For The assist Man!!! Really good Exercise.
Thanks for this tutorial. It is very helpful.
Thank you! Very helpful exercises.
thanks a lot for sharing. I have been struggling to find a good way to learn and memorize the inversions, very useful. I guess exercise # 2 can be done with minor chords too, but sound is a bit strange. Thanks again and best regards!
Savvy Advise @ 4:00 Don't get "OVERWHELMED "... Thank you For this Great Video❤️👍
I like how you promote your sister’s jewelry. And the info about piano chords is amazing. Thank you!
This is what I needed. Thank you
Thanks for excellent exercise tutorial.Started on it.I am not attending any class. Self learning with help of RUclips.
Thank you Mangold for all these tutorials.
You're welcome, R.S.
Thank you, your tutorials are really helpful
Very useful exercise Thanks for video
Hi, Nice explanation and excercises!! But how to practice different inversions on both hands?(holding base on left and practicing inversions on left is fine).For eg: 2nd inversion of the chord on my left and root of the chord on my right. Could you please give some on this tips?
Amal Raj Hello Amal. I’m only a beginner but maybe if I share with you my routine (based on this lesson) it might work well for you too. I’ll do root, 1st and 2nd of the 1 chord. Then the R, 1st and 2nd of the 4. Then the R, 1st and 2nd of the 5. Then I’ll go through the Ex. #2 about 5 times with one hand at a slow 1 per beat at 60 bpm. After that Ex # 2 about 10 times at 2 per beat at 60 bpm. Then I repeat the process with my left hand. Then I also do Ex. #3.
Then I do hands together of the process from the beginning. Sometimes I find that it takes a little longer to get the “...10 times at 2 per beat at 60 bpm” when I’m playing both hands but I only started practicing this lesson 2 days ago.
I think I’ll try alternate inversion/root when simply going through the same chord when using both hands, as you mentioned in your question.
Also, here is the fingering I use ,for the right hand , that seems to be working well for me if you want to give it a try. Root- 1,2 and 3; 1st Inv.-1,2 and 4; 2nd Inv.- 1,2 and 3. My 2nd Inv. fingering is considered to be unorthodox but it seems to be making this exercise really easy. Doing only the 1st inversion with each hand separately and chromatically a few times (same for the 2nd inversion) really helped too.
Thank you for the splendid video.
Beautiful instruction. .. big thumb up for this
Thank you.
This is just awesome …… Thankyou 🌷
once again fantastic I watch your videos everyday now thanks
Great! Glad you enjoy them.
Thank you. your guidance is very helpful to this "lone wolf" student.
Very good teacher !! Thank you so much!!
On the strength, if a person do what you say that can't help but get better.
Thank you for a very methodical tutorial!
Thanks!
Many thanks for the lesson. Just what I was looking for 👍
Fantastic idea. Just what I need.
Hi
amazing video...learned a lot!
Its a request please...
If you could share how to practice these inversion with scale...that will be very useful
Thank you
Loving your channel
Thank you dear piano Master
It's is a great help for me by following your exercises.
Thank u very much. Rhis is so helpful
Will practice.
Thank you! So so much!
there's one thing I don't understand: is it recommended to use specific fingerings for chord inversions, or wherever the fingers fall comfortably is ok?
Genius, Thank you
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Thanks for the tutorial, very clear, very helpful.
Tahnks sir for the excercise really helpful. For exercise 2 what would you suggest should we practice with both hands simultaneously or just individually? Thanks again
How about the fingering, are there an specific fingering for each inversion?
Thank you so much , your video is very simple to understant ,
WOOOOW this just made me wanna play piano af
Thanks for the great videos.
Thanks for watching.
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My friend reverse image searched it. Final fantasy 4, Cecil becomes a paladin. :b. Great video btw, your practice/progression videos are the best! :)
Very interesting tutorial.. really helpful!!!