Songs that use Inversions
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Inverting a chord just means to have a note which isn't the root note as the lowest pitch. Using inversions can introduce a real richness and depth to a chord progression.
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0:00 Introduction
1:05 1st inversion tonic chord
2:07 1st inversion dominant chord
2:54 the third inversion
4:42 God Only Knows by The Beach Boys
6:30 Something by The Beatles
7:15 labelling inversions with roman numerals
10:11 Cadential 6-4
11:44 Ekster
12:34 100% inverted piano outro
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David Bennett Piano, the man who makes music theory seem easy, understandable and the only person who has made it make sense to me
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100% agree!
I'm Brazilian, and my English is not so good, but he can make me understand everything without subs
yep, totally agree
I completely agree! His video explaining why there are 12 notes and how that creates intervals in standard Western music was an epiphany and made me understand what was previously confusing.
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The outro piece is amazing. I love that you always do one of these
Same inversions as Take It Easy On Me by Little River Band! Nice!
Totally! The 4 4m 1/3 add9 is the best
Brian Wilson’s “God Only Knows” is a brilliant example. I can’t even conceive how he came up with those inversions. Incredible ear.
The keyboard appearing on the screen makes your videos absolutely perfect, even better understandable than before. It really is a highly appreciated new feature. Thanks a lot David!
Wow that song at the end was really beautiful!
Thanks!!
I've always heard you talk about Radiohead for years and now I've been dragged into the world of Kid A and it feels so depressing and just perfect. It speaks to me. How To Disappear Completely, beautiful song. When he harmonises with the melody literal heaven.
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I did my GCSEs last year. I ended up doing my music exam at home. I did music production and produces a creative song in FL studio. Is your more theory based?
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One of my favourite inversions: the first chord in ‘Aint no mountain enough’ i just thought of it and came on immediately in your video. Coincidence! Minds thinking alike!
Good choice!
What makes that chord is the half diminished chord that follows, because there's only one note different. The inversion just lines things up nice to establish the downward motion.
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You’ve improved my musical life.
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David Bennet, is truly the teacher I wish I’d had when I was young. I always enjoy his examples and narratives.
The song you wrote as an example is stunningly beautiful!
Brian May often used D/A on guitar -it's formed a big part of the Queen guitar sound!
Use Somebody was the song that taught me inversions, although I didn't know until now it was in inversion; I just knew it had a slash chord
The bit at the end is a beautiful piece of music
Ooh that song at the end is gorgeous! 💓
The instrumental section of Layla by Derek and the Dominos is one of my favorite examples of inversions
glad you included the Beach Boys. Brian is the inversion king.
Adam Neely once said that he love the bass because of the "brute force" of it, because you can invert or generate another lot of chords and armony, even if the whole band is playing D, you with a F# can change it all.
Also why Sting likes it
You with a D# could change it even more.
You are really hitting your stride, just putting out so many awesome videos so frequently! Thank you David!
One of your best, and there are no bummers in your library of videos thanks to your skill at teaching and hard work.
Your videos are awesome David. I always look forward to them and learn a lot. I love the fact that you’re always using real world examples of these ideas in practice.
Love the piece at the end David. Super work. Thanks again for all.
10:33 Dammit, you forced me to stand up and salute! 😛
Thank you David and please compose some more. You have a great talent there.
Such a beautiful melody of yours at the end!
Thanks David for giving me ptsd from my days in AP Music Theory, when you started talking about the figured bass all the bad memories of using it came back 😂, I just graduated high school and we did a lot of figured bass and even my teacher thought it was stupidly complicated/unnecessary 😂
I love this chord series!
I won’t lie, your channel has made understanding music concepts so much easier, I’ve always been really good at understanding time signatures and writing with them, but chord theory used to be completely alien to me until I started watching your channel. now I’m actively seeking out new musical concepts to learn and apply to my own music because I can actually comprehend and digest them because of your videos.
Wonderful segment, David. You filled in a number of blanks for me in a clear and concise manner. Well done, as always!
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Loved your piece at the end!
thanks to you i’m finally understanding about chord progressions and modes. i can’t thank you enough. you’re really the best teacher out there. cheers! 🎶🎶🎶
Beautiful progression at the end. Voice leading and color. Cool post, and informative
Very, very beautiful composition.
Love your videos, been watching for a while, and theyre getting better! Thanks for doing what you do David!
Thank you!!
A superb introductory explanation! I love watching your videos that cover more advanced topics too, but this is MY level. Thanks, David! 😃 So many other things I've seen make so much more sense now.
Great 😊
Wow, Your composition in the end was really impressive! I didn't know that you're SUCH a great composer. Thanks vor the Video!
Wow!!! Thanks a brilliant chord progression!!! I always learn a lot from you!!! Keep up the good and generous work you share.
Beautiful piece of music you have there at the end
I love your channel. You make music theory digestible, education and most importantly fun!
Your outro composition has always been a pleasure to listen to. But, I think this one is the best yet! Great video.
Adam Neely laid into figured bass two weeks ago in his “Can I pass AP” piece - its time on earth must soon be up if you two are combining forces.
Very sweet and pretty melody you composed at the end. I really, really liked it a lot.
These outro pieces are god-tier
I've learnt so much theory in such a few days because of you. Thank You.
Excellent video, thank you, David.
Your composition is beautiful, thanks for sharing
I liked your inversions piece at the end, those last 3 chords were very pretty. Keep it up
Another good show and a nice song at the end to boot. Keep it up and have a nice day.
Thanks, will do!
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thanks David!
If my professors had been more like you, David; my college experience would have been soooooooo much better.
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Excellent video. Clear and informative. Keep up the great work!
lovely piece at the end!
God only knows what invertions I play by time I splatter the chord tones all over the neck, good vid thanks.
Thanks, really appreciated!
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Wonderful video! I'm so glad I found your channel!
Nicely done
Really interesting post, thanks. Great outro music as well
Outstanding video! I must try using this ASAP
Always informative, thank you.
Thanks for this!
Thanks for watching!
Your piece is just beautiful. Love it.
Thanks David. You've explained thinks that have been bugging me for ages in such an easy to understand way.
Great!
Yeah,that D/F# chord is very commonly used by guitar players. And for the exact reason you gave,of course. It makes for a very nice--if not slightly vanilla at this point--transition between a G and an Em.
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Amazing explanation tank-you!
Inverting powerchords is a fun little trick, too
Song 2 by blur is the first that comes to mind
Agreed!
Yeah, I saw that in Paul David's recent video 😀😀
Makes them even easier to play on guitar than regular power chords. Richie Blackmore loved them (though I believe he talked about them as parallel 4ths, but same diff -- a 4th is an inverted 5th) as evidenced by songs like "Smoke on the Water" and "Burn". Page used them in Zep's version of "In My Time of Dying". An easy way to make great-sounding riffs.
Beautiful outro piece
This was extremely intrresting, even more than usually, if possible! ☺️
wonderful
I never knew that made such a big difference, i usually play a chord with whatever the triad notes are. i didnt care for what the bass was, just used what sounded the best/easiest to play. Great video as always
Another one of your best episodes.
Well done 💙
Cheers!
Inversions are a favorite trick of mine to use in songwriting, a relatively simple yet effective way of making basic chords sound more interesting
super helpful thank you!
Great vidéo, as always! Thx
what a fantastic lesson
Interestingly I learned inverted chords (specifically second-inversion ones) before even the root position ones as the first chart I learned chords off of had them in second-inversion. As such it is one of my favorite musical concepts and I've begun to realize that just like the examples you've used in this video, inverted chords tend to resolve rather than be resolved to, almost in my mind having some semblance of instability. I-4 tends to resolve to IV (as the third in the bass leads up to the fourth) and I-6-4 tends to resolve to V (as the root of the V is already there in the bass).
Notable examples of inversion heavy songs I can think of include "These Dreams" by Heart which has a chorus of almost all inverted chords along with "Baby Hold On" by Eddie Money which uses a combination of I-6-4 and augmented chords. These both have chord progressions I would describe as unstable.
Thanks for everything learning theory has help me a lot
I love Sir Elton John's use of inversions in Your Song. They add a level of beauty and sophistication the the harmonic color. Basically all of Billy Joel's music is the same
Yes I was playing that song a few months ago and noticed it as well.
Fantastic
I love the way that Queen's "You're My Best Friend" ends on a first inversion, at least to my ears. It's the only example I can think of!
Interesting. I always thought of some of those inversions as just walking the bass line up or down to the next chord but now I see that there is some music theory behind it.
Well these inversions ARE the "next chord." That's a distinction here.
Damn, I think that could be my favourite of your example compositions.
Thank you!
Love this video about chords!
Great video! I agree that figured bass is confusing and messy. Here's how I personally write inversions and other slash chords using roman numerals. Take Bob Dylan's "Simple Twist of Fate":
C - - - Em/B - - - C/B♭ - - - F/A - - - Fm/A♭ - - - C/G - F - C - G - C - - -
(Each dash is one additional beat.) In roman numerals:
I - - - iii/5 - - - I/m7 - - - IV/3 - - - iv/3 - - - I/5 - IV - I - V - I - - -
The bass note is always relative to the chord root, not the tonic. Thus a 1st inversion is always /3, a 2nd inversion is always /5, etc. Note that "3" refers to A in the F chord, but to A♭ in the Fm chord, because "3" refers to whatever the chord's 3rd is. If you wanted to do something weird like F/A♭ or Fm/A, that would be IV/m3 or iv/M3. In other words, to add a bass note that's not in the chord, just write the interval from the root to the bass note. Thus the C/B♭ chord becomes I/m7. (But C7/B♭ would become I7/7.)
Geez that outro piece was perfect David
Inversions of the chord doesn't change the chord itself, it slightly changes the flavour of the chord. C is like a chips, C/E is like chips with tartar sauce, C/G is like chips with ketchup.
They also have a nice ambiguous quality about them, for instance sometimes they might be viewed as functioning like a suspension of the chord that follows.
excellent
Outstanding video. Helps me to realize the color added to a song by merely performing an inversion. Helps me to realize why listening to Brian Wilson's compositions can be so emotional.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Talk about timing.
Coincidentally, I was just watching your video on augmented chords and you brought up how they’re the only form of chords that can’t be inverted. After you said that, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Now here we are.
I’m learning so much from your channel! Not sure how much I’ll retain though, haha
Favorite video
That thumbnail is dope! love the colours
Looking forward to an extended album with all your outro tunes.
A fantastic italian song full of inversions is Paolo Conte's "gli impermeabili". Actually the tune you composed at the end sort of reminded me of it. I really reccomend it for the English listeners ;)
Thanks David!! Beautiful piece of music at the end! Bet that wasn't composed in 5 minutes!