Chord Inversion Philosophy & Voice Leading | There's Nothing to Remember!

The funny thing is, you can already play inversions and voice leading is something already possible to implement. How? If you know the major scales and the template for the chords in root position. It is that simple. Voice leading is a kind of conservation of movement from one chord to the next and usually involves an inversion in at least one of the chords involved, or both.
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Instead of jumping all over the place to play chords in root position, one is often obliged (in composition or improvisation, at least, or with a lead sheet telling you the chord but not where or in which inversion to play it) to use inversions. You simply cannot do this if you don't know the root position template and you can't know that if you don't know the major scales. It is that simple.

In this video, (with my broken upper C note which - sorry, it plays louder than the other notes and distracted me a little too much so I need to check the contacts inside... fun!), I'm basically saying: start by at least playing the following chord types in their inversions in the most popular keys first, without neglecting all the 12 keys because you really can't escape them: Major and minor triads with dominant and Major 7th, 6th, augmented (#5), whole and half diminished and sus4 chords.

One exercise I did not do but I do like, and have demonstrated in many other videos, is to play as blocks and move over different octaves. I'm happy to make a video detailing exercises for chord inversions if enough people ask!

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