Chord Inversion – Lesson 13

It’s the art of re-arranging the notes of a chord in different ways.

For example:

In the key of C, the 1 chord which is C E G is in the root position, it can be inverted in two major ways:

E G C

G C E

To get the first inversion, take the first note and put it behind the last note

C E G becomes E G C – that is how the first inversion is gotten

From E G C, take the first note again and put it behind the last one; then it becomes G C E – that’s the second inversion.

So use this principle to invert every other chords that you know.