How To Identify Chord Inversions Instantly

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  • Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
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    Inversions are a fundamental part of learning to play piano for every beginner. They're useful for any style you're learning to help you get familiar with the keyboard and understand how to begin playing chords in different ways. We want to get them fluent eventually so we can use them easily but the first step is to understand them properly, be able to figure them out and learn the basic music theory. Step 2 is actually playing them and getting used to the inversion shapes of every major and minor chord. Step 3 in this video is to practice identifying them and finding them straight away!
    🎹 You can watch PART 1 HERE on understanding inversions,
    a bit of theory and how to find inversions for any type of chord
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    🎹 You can watch PART 2 HERE starting to play, see and move through the inversion shapes of one chord at a time with good technique
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    TIMESTAMPS ⏰
    0:00 What you need to do
    0:29 Follow the root
    1:23 Finding 1st Inversion shapes (White keys)
    4:41 Finding 2nd Inversion shapes (White keys)
    7:03 You need to track the intervals, here's how
    9:56 Changing between major and minor (Chords with a black key)
    14:17 The other chords
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  • @PianoFromScratch
    @PianoFromScratch  3 года назад +5

    Start putting some inversion shapes into practice next by learning your first accompaniment pattern here! 👉 ruclips.net/video/TiTx52fMw1w/видео.html

  • @99timewaster
    @99timewaster Год назад +10

    Sitting here at night in front of my piano, you blew my mind! Your follow the root approach to inversions made able to figure out within 3 seconds the inversions of all chords in the key C in less than 5 minutes!

  • @dermwestcott6130
    @dermwestcott6130 7 месяцев назад +3

    Best explanation of inversions ever 😮

  • @sleepystew1184
    @sleepystew1184 10 месяцев назад +4

    Awesome video, here's an easy alternative way I use to find the root note.
    Make an arrow that always points to the right and put it in the biggest gap of the chord.
    So, in a C first inversion, E | G -> C
    In a second inversion, G -> C | E

  • @lawrencetaylor4101
    @lawrencetaylor4101 2 месяца назад +1

    You really have a good system for learning about chords. I'm glad I found your channel early on. Today was a review, but it always helps.

  • @richard135b7
    @richard135b7 Год назад +2

    I've been frustrated trying to learn and practice inversions in different keys but your magic formula makes it so easy. They truly are now instantly identifiable and playable. Very grateful. Thank you.

  • @pds002
    @pds002 2 года назад +8

    Excellent lesson. Thank you. I've been struggling with inversions and have found them a bit scary. This video has been the perfect, timely antidote.

  • @T-marie-N
    @T-marie-N 3 года назад +11

    Love this! When I started learning inversions I watched that root note like a hawk--this expands on that and makes it so much easier to see what I'm supposed to be playing. Thank you!

  • @angieLoved
    @angieLoved 2 года назад +5

    Wow....you've made inversions easier to understand. Thank You. Great lesson.

  • @jonimaricruz1692
    @jonimaricruz1692 6 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for your video and tips, I’m older and I’ve decided to learn piano and actually read music. I play guitar and I know basically how chords are built, but piano is so different, everything’s laid out beautifully flat, so to speak, and your video’s been very helpful in figuring things out. Enjoy the holidays! 🫶✌️

  • @kikumi4637
    @kikumi4637 11 месяцев назад +4

    Thanks SO much for this video. It's been very helpful in my journey of learning the piano. I totally get inversions much better now when you describe it as shapes. I'm a visual person so this explanation ROCKS! Wow!

  • @anishpatelwork
    @anishpatelwork 3 года назад +10

    Perfect timing. I've just been working through chord inversions for the first time. This explains how to find the inversions so much easier based on shape rather than how I was doing it

  • @user-dm2bd9ub5p
    @user-dm2bd9ub5p Год назад +2

    Brilliant insight. Thank you Sir

  • @kennethwelsby2143
    @kennethwelsby2143 Год назад +2

    Thanks very much for awesome work!

  • @johnbell913
    @johnbell913 Год назад +1

    Very good job. I am learning piano.

  • @janmountford4865
    @janmountford4865 Год назад +2

    Wonderful explanation thanks

  • @Humanbeering
    @Humanbeering Год назад +1

    Damn this makes sense, I have started with another method moving fingers one at a time up, following the root is much easier

  • @adriankolsters
    @adriankolsters Год назад +1

    that was VERY helpful. Finally an easier way than thinking through the whole thing before I know what is what. Thanks!

  • @Kr1t1kal-JS15
    @Kr1t1kal-JS15 Год назад +1

    THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH THANK YOU

  • @snehadeshmukh2374
    @snehadeshmukh2374 3 года назад +5

    One of the best way to teach piano !!!
    Great work, thanks for the technique to learn inversions in the easiest way !!🤗

  • @raymondjoseph8040
    @raymondjoseph8040 Год назад +5

    Excellent explanation, as always. Do you have an inversion video dealing with 7th chords?

  • @ivainezharris2279
    @ivainezharris2279 Год назад +2

    Very well explained!

  • @Jason-rk4xc
    @Jason-rk4xc 3 года назад +3

    Thanks man. I just bought the pdf too, tons of info in there.

  • @GuruNishtha
    @GuruNishtha 6 месяцев назад

    Great tutorial. Very useful indeed. Highly impressed. Stay well and blessed.

  • @dwayneporter2515
    @dwayneporter2515 Месяц назад

    Very good shape training for inversions and chords

  • @leahgodson2319
    @leahgodson2319 4 месяца назад

    So well explained; thank you very much!

  • @jaishriram2020
    @jaishriram2020 9 месяцев назад +1

    Really appreciate!! Awesome 👍👌👌

  • @miritmizrahi6496
    @miritmizrahi6496 3 года назад +2

    gorgeous video! thank you 😊

  • @noeljager9696
    @noeljager9696 13 дней назад

    What a great explanation - Thank you :)

  • @superjonz9958
    @superjonz9958 2 года назад +2

    This is very helpful! Thank you very much 🙂

  • @wjray
    @wjray 3 года назад +3

    I’ve learned a ton from your videos. Thank you so much.

  • @amrishvijayvast
    @amrishvijayvast 3 года назад +2

    Very useful. Thanks a ton!

  • @bettyennin6335
    @bettyennin6335 3 года назад +3

    You are a great tutor. Thanks!

  • @lesharris9560
    @lesharris9560 5 месяцев назад

    Nurse said i should shoulc stop driving myself mad and listen to you.thanks

  • @crucommu1
    @crucommu1 6 месяцев назад

    Great lesson! Thanks!

  • @SilasJrOficial
    @SilasJrOficial 11 месяцев назад

    This is MAGICAL !!! tks a lot !!!

  • @sheilamaetalisic281
    @sheilamaetalisic281 Год назад

    Thank you for this.!! 😇

  • @whotheloveisedgar
    @whotheloveisedgar 3 года назад +8

    this is amazing! Thank you so much! I have started learning piano with you channel but then had the opportunity to get piano lessons in person. Nevertheless I'm constantly coming back to this channel when I'm not quite sure about something, or just to hear it from another angle. This video helped me a lot to memorize my inversion shapes!

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  3 года назад +1

      Thanks man, yea in person lessons are really valuable for that personal feedback specifically with technique. Glad the channel is helping too though!

  • @carolynkirkman
    @carolynkirkman Год назад

    Soooooooo HELPFUL!!!!! Thank YOU

  • @abdeljabarelgueddari735
    @abdeljabarelgueddari735 3 года назад +3

    A great video again! Thank you so much!

  • @theoriginalbrickbat
    @theoriginalbrickbat Год назад +1

    Sooooooo useful! I have already been playing inversions, but didn't twig there were set shapes! D'oh! As a guitarist, I work in shapes.

  • @6moon18
    @6moon18 Год назад

    amazing thanks

  • @franciscocalvo1980
    @franciscocalvo1980 3 года назад +1

    Thanks. The best explanation I've ever seen about that.

  • @2002jorgeparr
    @2002jorgeparr Год назад

    You are AWESOME Sir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @izacmusic7000
    @izacmusic7000 2 года назад

    best tutorial I've ever seen

  • @ErixSamson
    @ErixSamson 8 месяцев назад

    Very useful

  • @michellemonet4358
    @michellemonet4358 20 дней назад

    Wow. ❤❤❤. Perfect

  • @richardwinstanley3859
    @richardwinstanley3859 Год назад

    Excellent

  • @rogerye03
    @rogerye03 6 месяцев назад

    THnxx❤

  • @paulbennett8984
    @paulbennett8984 9 месяцев назад

    tallent for teaching piano0o by ear - i highly recomend

  • @stu13th
    @stu13th 4 месяца назад

    Great video, do you do inversions for the flat and sharp chords too?

  • @botehtv
    @botehtv 7 месяцев назад +1

    Can you do one for 7th chords as well? 😇

  • @jph7957
    @jph7957 Год назад +1

    Great teaching, thank you!
    When would you recommend practicing hands together? When you can play all the inversions comfortably at 60 or 90, or earlier?

  • @nickmorley1159
    @nickmorley1159 Год назад +1

    Can you do a similar thing with 7ths?

  • @timajrobins
    @timajrobins 3 года назад +3

    Hello. Don't think I've ever commented on a RUclips video before but wanted to say I came across your channel after watching lots of other videos about chords/how to play by ear (Pianote etc). I am so enjoying your channel.
    I have been playing now for about 4 years on and off, and have always found inversions so confusing and overwhelming. Your method and explanation here is incredibly helpful and makes me realise ways in which I can more easily identify inversions (through both the physical shape and the visual way to recognise if the 3rd has 'looped' back around), and 'anchor' using the root instead of it just seeming like a random jumble of notes!
    Have subscribed and will be working through the practice sessions asap. (PS: You don't happen to live in London for lessons do you?)

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  3 года назад

      Glad it helped man, thanks for the feedback! No not in london, I’m down south.

  • @sarathw5740
    @sarathw5740 2 года назад

    This is a great way to remember this mammoth task,

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  2 года назад

      Hope it helps it become not such a mammoth task when you know the 'formula' to help you recognise them. The more you use them they will start to feel more familiar 🙂

  • @xxxnsfw
    @xxxnsfw 2 года назад

    incredible content boss

  • @nandaverwijk5865
    @nandaverwijk5865 Год назад

    Master man god blezz

  • @ashanesmusicdiary4972
    @ashanesmusicdiary4972 2 года назад

    I started watching this and I thought wow

  • @josephmwamburi3580
    @josephmwamburi3580 Год назад

    Please can you show me how to do root c complete Iverson

  • @mauriciotrimani7595
    @mauriciotrimani7595 3 года назад

    Great video! we have to play it with those fingers? is that correct?

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  3 года назад +1

      Can't remember if I re-mentioned it in this video but I did briefly in the previous part 2. When you're playing actual music, you'll end up playing all these positions using a variety of fingerings but for people getting started it's usually better to stick to one set for consistency and memory when our focus is recognising the position here. In the video I do all sorts of things but I'm often trying to keep my hand out of the way of your view. The fingers to start moving through inversions should be RH root 1 3 5 1st Inv 1 2 5 2nd Inv 1 3 5 LH Root 5 3 1 1st Inv 5 3 1 2nd 5 2 1. These are generally natural ways that fingers mould into the shapes the chords make, though like I say others work too

  • @Big.Joe.Grizzly
    @Big.Joe.Grizzly Год назад

    Please can someone help me understand something. At 1:28 you play C maj chord using the fingers 1, 2, 3. But I have been doing it with 1, 3 ,5. I don't understand which one is correct because it seems different people play them with different fingers. I guess my question is does it matter which fingers I use or not because I'm worried that I've been learning songs using the wrong fingers and I will have to relearn them again if I've been doing it wrong. Thank you in advanced

  • @Nick-ui9dr
    @Nick-ui9dr Год назад

    Okay! What is E G B .. E minor or C major7 without root? 😀
    Or C Eb F# ... C diminished or Cm b5?

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  Год назад +1

      Well if you haven’t played the C , or if a bass player for example hasn’t either, then that’s usually going to be the E as the root.
      Of course there may be exceptions depending on what you’re doing

  • @francessmith165
    @francessmith165 7 месяцев назад

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @zeroossi5967
    @zeroossi5967 8 месяцев назад

    hwo can that help me in reading music ?

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  8 месяцев назад

      When you recognise chord and inversion shapes on the page, you can read them quicker as one thing instead of picking out each individual note. Then when you go actually to play them, it's easier when those positions are already familiar on the piano.

  • @xnslrzn
    @xnslrzn Год назад

    i get a 3rd confused with tones and semitones. because a third from the root, is 4 semitones up and then how is there another 3rd from the first third but not equaling 4 semitones?

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  Год назад +1

      There’s 2 types of 3rd, major 3rd and minor 3rd. Major 3rd is 4 semitones, minor 3rd is 3 semitones. Check out my chord building video and you’ll see how we can stack 3rds to create chords

  • @davidfarmer2049
    @davidfarmer2049 7 месяцев назад

    Some good ideas.
    Can one cord shape also be called another......even in a totally separate circumstance (like a minor key)?
    Your gonna say yes of course all the time(?)
    anyone?

  • @nicojar
    @nicojar Год назад

    When you play rootless voicings and the bassist is trying to follow your left hand :D

  • @abdeljabarelgueddari735
    @abdeljabarelgueddari735 3 года назад

    Hi, I've discoverd before 2 days this thing with the name circle of fifths. Holly shit! Magic! The Allrounder I would say. I'm still studing it proufoundly, don't check everthing but I know it, the whole music theorie is inside it. Very helpfull tool. Time will tell Marley said :) Any hints?

    • @PianoFromScratch
      @PianoFromScratch  3 года назад +4

      Yea it is a handy way of organising and displaying things. It's really useful when you're practicing something in every key as an organised way of hitting them all (there's other ways too) You may hear it called the circle of 4ths too as if you go anti clockwise, it moves in 4ths

  • @moontan91
    @moontan91 Год назад

    but i think it would be better to call a Major chord in root position, for example, being a major 3rd interval with a minor 3rd on top of it.
    i feel just calling them "3rd" is confusing.

  • @HillelBlank
    @HillelBlank 3 года назад +2

    Really helpful.
    Thanks!