Chords for Robben Ford Guitar Lesson - #9 Major Triad Inversions - Chord Revolution: Foundations

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_ _ Talk now about chord inversions.
_ _ Inversions, right?
Basically what we're doing is inverting
the notes of a fundamental triad.
If this is our G triad, _ _ _ that's where we've kind of been working. _
[E] These are all triads, right?
[Am] _ [G] _ Well, we're going to move [E] now to the key of E, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and we're going to
invert the three notes of a basic E triad. _ _ _
Triad is tonic, or root, third, and fifth.
That's your
basic triad.
First step of the major [Ebm] scale, [Abm] third step of the major [A] scale, [B] fifth step of the major
[E] scale.
_ _ I'm going to play this voicing here _ for _ E.
_ This is root, fifth, _ and third. _ _
_ Some of you might
find this a little bit awkward because I am indeed _ damping the D string, _ _ and I'm not playing the two
above.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now what we're going to do is invert those three notes.
I'm going to put the [Abm] third in the
root, [E] _ _ the tonic here, _ _ the fifth above. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now we're going [Abm] to put the fifth in the root, _ [E] _ _ _
third, and the
above. _ _ _ _
_ Now all three of these are E major triads, right?
The notes are not changing.
_ They're simply _
being inverted, moved around and displaced.
They're a little further apart in certain cases
than they were with your basic triad.
_ _ Still, they're E chords. _
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This allows you to do things
than what else is happening around you.
Again, when someone's playing _ down here,
_ you don't want to play down there.
You want to play up here, _ _ _ right?
You want to get away from
that, otherwise it gets too dark and muddy, and you want to move up.
This is _ the function _ _ _ _ of chord
voicings, _ _ _ _ _ of different chord voicings.
You have a different voicing because _ it's appropriate for a
certain situation.
You want to hear the fifth in the root.
You want to hear the third in the root.
These things are important, create a sound, give you a whole other dimension _ to the palette of the
music that you're playing. _
_ So I'd really like to ask you to learn how to play these things. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Those
are your basic chord voicings, _ starting down here, low open E string, moving [Bb] up to a third,
fifth in the root, and then I played the octave above that. _ _ _
These will expand and can be played
all over the guitar in many different ways.
Just understand the concept that you're not
playing a different chord, you're still playing E.
You're just playing it with a different root
note chosen from your basic triad, displacing the notes.
_ Again, you want to learn how to do
this