Chords for Piano Theory with Don Moen | Worship Keyboard Workshop

_ _ _ _ _ There's two or three versions of every chord, a lot more than that, but you have your basic triad.
This is a kind of really, really simple _ theory lesson.
_ _ Those of you who know this can sleep through it, but
some of you need to know that this is the basic triad in a chord is the 1-3-5.
_ _ [G] _ And there, you know, there's eight notes, [D] you know, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7,
Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, [C] Ti, Do.
So you have your basic triad, and then you have a first inversion, which is a C-E-G, then you got a E-G,
still a C chord, or _ _ _ _
that's second inversion, still _ a C chord.
So for some reason,
[C] _ _ _ _
I don't know, I'm not sure why, but I kind of ended up
playing a lot in second inversion, which, you know, for worship,
_ it's interesting because the fifth [G] of the chord, the G,
_ is in an octave.
So you got, [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ it just gives it that open feeling.
_ See, if I played this, _ _ _ _
_ you know, or _ _ _
sounds so basic, that's a C chord, but when you play it like this, you know,
_ _ _ _ _ _ it just has a lot more of an open feel.
And what I discovered was,
when you play it in that inversion, you know,
_ _ you can add that [G] 9 or the sus2, it's the D, you know, _ _
that.
_ _ _ So that's why I'll
_ _ _ _ play it, _ [F] _
_ I'll [C] play that way a lot.
So I just kind of ended up in that
_ _ _ _ in that inversion.
And it's interesting when it comes to worship,
especially creating an atmosphere of worship.
If you've ever been in a
service where they're kind of singing freely to the Lord, you know,
_ [G] _ you hear people sing within that note, they'll sing the fifth.
_ [C] We bless you, Lord. _
_ _ _ [D] We worship you.
That's the fifth.
_ [C] _ _ _ And so it just kind of,
that inversion kind of works really well _ in a worship setting.
It just gives you that open feel.
And again, I'm adding the sus2.
If you see that in a chord, in a chord symbol, C sus2,
that means a suspended second.
So, you know,
one, [D] two, three, four, five, six.
[Cm] So just,
you gotta understand there are eight tones in the scale.
[Gb] And if it says C sus2, it could be sometime called [D] sus9 as well,
because it's one, two, three, four, five, six, [Bb] seven, eight, nine.
It's kind of up there, but really it's a [G] sus2. _ _ _ _ _
It gives that [C] feel, you know.
_ _ [G] So you'll see that a lot in modern worship songs, it'd be sus2.
_ [Ab]
And that's what that means.
It's the second,
it can get in that second [D] inversion and you, _ in the key of G, [Ab] it's this.
Here's a G [G] triad. _ _ _
Here's the first inversion _ _ and second inversion,
_ _ _ which if you octave it, _ that gives you the,
the _ there you're in the fifth of the chord.
G is the one, [D] two, three,
four, five.
_ In that case, the A would be the sus2.
_ _ [C] _ So you hear what Kiko's doing.
_ He's just kind of there [F] setting this _ atmosphere of worship. _ _