How To Identify Chord Inversions Instantly

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Inversions are a fundamental part of learning to play piano for every beginner. They're useful for any style you're learning to help you get familiar with the keyboard and understand how to begin playing chords in different ways. We want to get them fluent eventually so we can use them easily but the first step is to understand them properly, be able to figure them out and learn the basic music theory. Step 2 is actually playing them and getting used to the inversion shapes of every major and minor chord. Step 3 in this video is to practice identifying them and finding them straight away!
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🎹 You can watch PART 2 HERE starting to play, see and move through the inversion shapes of one chord at a time with good technique
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TIMESTAMPS ⏰
0:00 What you need to do
0:29 Follow the root
1:23 Finding 1st Inversion shapes (White keys)
4:41 Finding 2nd Inversion shapes (White keys)
7:03 You need to track the intervals, here's how
9:56 Changing between major and minor (Chords with a black key)
14:17 The other chords
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@PianoFromScratch 3 жыл бұрын

Start putting some inversion shapes into practice next by learning your first accompaniment pattern here! 👉 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/is-Eq5hjy7PbYas.html

@99timewaster Жыл бұрын

Sitting here at night in front of my piano, you blew my mind! Your follow the root approach to inversions made able to figure out within 3 seconds the inversions of all chords in the key C in less than 5 minutes!

@dermwestcott6130 7 ай бұрын

Best explanation of inversions ever 😮

@lawrencetaylor4101 2 ай бұрын

You really have a good system for learning about chords. I'm glad I found your channel early on. Today was a review, but it always helps.

@sleepystew1184 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video, here's an easy alternative way I use to find the root note. Make an arrow that always points to the right and put it in the biggest gap of the chord. So, in a C first inversion, E | G -> C In a second inversion, G -> C | E

@pds002 Жыл бұрын

Excellent lesson. Thank you. I've been struggling with inversions and have found them a bit scary. This video has been the perfect, timely antidote.

@T-marie-N 3 жыл бұрын

Love this! When I started learning inversions I watched that root note like a hawk--this expands on that and makes it so much easier to see what I'm supposed to be playing. Thank you!

@jonimaricruz1692 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your video and tips, I’m older and I’ve decided to learn piano and actually read music. I play guitar and I know basically how chords are built, but piano is so different, everything’s laid out beautifully flat, so to speak, and your video’s been very helpful in figuring things out. Enjoy the holidays! 🫶✌️

@kikumi4637 10 ай бұрын

Thanks SO much for this video. It's been very helpful in my journey of learning the piano. I totally get inversions much better now when you describe it as shapes. I'm a visual person so this explanation ROCKS! Wow!

@angieLoved 2 жыл бұрын

Wow....you've made inversions easier to understand. Thank You. Great lesson.

@richard135b7 11 ай бұрын

I've been frustrated trying to learn and practice inversions in different keys but your magic formula makes it so easy. They truly are now instantly identifiable and playable. Very grateful. Thank you.

@anishpatelwork 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect timing. I've just been working through chord inversions for the first time. This explains how to find the inversions so much easier based on shape rather than how I was doing it

@PianoFromScratch 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@Humanbeering Жыл бұрын

Damn this makes sense, I have started with another method moving fingers one at a time up, following the root is much easier

@adriankolsters Жыл бұрын

that was VERY helpful. Finally an easier way than thinking through the whole thing before I know what is what. Thanks!

@raymondjoseph8040 Жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation, as always. Do you have an inversion video dealing with 7th chords?

@snehadeshmukh2374 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best way to teach piano !!! Great work, thanks for the technique to learn inversions in the easiest way !!🤗

@PianoFromScratch 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I hope you find it helpful

@Jason-rk4xc 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man. I just bought the pdf too, tons of info in there.

@PianoFromScratch 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks!

@user-dm2bd9ub5p Жыл бұрын

Brilliant insight. Thank you Sir

@Kr1t1kal-JS15 Жыл бұрын

THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH THANK YOU

@kennethwelsby2143 Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for awesome work!

@johnbell913 Жыл бұрын

Very good job. I am learning piano.

@wjray 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve learned a ton from your videos. Thank you so much.

@janmountford4865 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful explanation thanks

@leahgodson2319 3 ай бұрын

So well explained; thank you very much!

@superjonz9958 2 жыл бұрын

This is very helpful! Thank you very much 🙂

@GuruNishtha 6 ай бұрын

Great tutorial. Very useful indeed. Highly impressed. Stay well and blessed.

@amrishvijayvast 3 жыл бұрын

Very useful. Thanks a ton!

@ivainezharris2279 Жыл бұрын

Very well explained!

@miritmizrahi6496 3 жыл бұрын

gorgeous video! thank you 😊

@bettyennin6335 3 жыл бұрын

You are a great tutor. Thanks!

@theoriginalbrickbat Жыл бұрын

Sooooooo useful! I have already been playing inversions, but didn't twig there were set shapes! D'oh! As a guitarist, I work in shapes.

@whotheloveisedgar 3 жыл бұрын

this is amazing! Thank you so much! I have started learning piano with you channel but then had the opportunity to get piano lessons in person. Nevertheless I'm constantly coming back to this channel when I'm not quite sure about something, or just to hear it from another angle. This video helped me a lot to memorize my inversion shapes!

@PianoFromScratch 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, yea in person lessons are really valuable for that personal feedback specifically with technique. Glad the channel is helping too though!

@noeljager9696 6 күн бұрын

What a great explanation - Thank you :)

@jaishriram2020 9 ай бұрын

Really appreciate!! Awesome 👍👌👌

@abdeljabarelgueddari735 3 жыл бұрын

A great video again! Thank you so much!

@PianoFromScratch 3 жыл бұрын

No probs, thanks for watching!

@crucommu1 6 ай бұрын

Great lesson! Thanks!

@carolynkirkman Жыл бұрын

Soooooooo HELPFUL!!!!! Thank YOU

@dwayneporter2515 Ай бұрын

Very good shape training for inversions and chords

@SilasJrOficial 11 ай бұрын

This is MAGICAL !!! tks a lot !!!

@lesharris9560 5 ай бұрын

Nurse said i should shoulc stop driving myself mad and listen to you.thanks

@franciscocalvo1980 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. The best explanation I've ever seen about that.

@PianoFromScratch 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, hope it helped

@2002jorgeparr Жыл бұрын

You are AWESOME Sir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@sheilamaetalisic281 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this.!! 😇

@izacmusic7000 2 жыл бұрын

best tutorial I've ever seen

@6moon18 Жыл бұрын

amazing thanks

@michellemonet4358 14 күн бұрын

Wow. ❤❤❤. Perfect

@ErixSamson 8 ай бұрын

Very useful

@richardwinstanley3859 Жыл бұрын

Excellent

@rogerye03 6 ай бұрын

THnxx❤

@jph7957 Жыл бұрын

Great teaching, thank you! When would you recommend practicing hands together? When you can play all the inversions comfortably at 60 or 90, or earlier?

@timajrobins 3 жыл бұрын

Hello. Don't think I've ever commented on a KZfaq video before but wanted to say I came across your channel after watching lots of other videos about chords/how to play by ear (Pianote etc). I am so enjoying your channel. I have been playing now for about 4 years on and off, and have always found inversions so confusing and overwhelming. Your method and explanation here is incredibly helpful and makes me realise ways in which I can more easily identify inversions (through both the physical shape and the visual way to recognise if the 3rd has 'looped' back around), and 'anchor' using the root instead of it just seeming like a random jumble of notes! Have subscribed and will be working through the practice sessions asap. (PS: You don't happen to live in London for lessons do you?)

@PianoFromScratch 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped man, thanks for the feedback! No not in london, I’m down south.

@sarathw5740 2 жыл бұрын

This is a great way to remember this mammoth task,

@PianoFromScratch 2 жыл бұрын

Hope it helps it become not such a mammoth task when you know the 'formula' to help you recognise them. The more you use them they will start to feel more familiar 🙂

@xxxnsfw 2 жыл бұрын

incredible content boss

@PianoFromScratch 2 жыл бұрын

Hope it's helpful!

@paulbennett8984 9 ай бұрын

tallent for teaching piano0o by ear - i highly recomend

@stu13th 4 ай бұрын

Great video, do you do inversions for the flat and sharp chords too?

@botehtv 7 ай бұрын

Can you do one for 7th chords as well? 😇

@nandaverwijk5865 Жыл бұрын

Master man god blezz

@ashanesmusicdiary4972 2 жыл бұрын

I started watching this and I thought wow

@nickmorley1159 Жыл бұрын

Can you do a similar thing with 7ths?

@mauriciotrimani7595 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! we have to play it with those fingers? is that correct?

@PianoFromScratch 3 жыл бұрын

Can't remember if I re-mentioned it in this video but I did briefly in the previous part 2. When you're playing actual music, you'll end up playing all these positions using a variety of fingerings but for people getting started it's usually better to stick to one set for consistency and memory when our focus is recognising the position here. In the video I do all sorts of things but I'm often trying to keep my hand out of the way of your view. The fingers to start moving through inversions should be RH root 1 3 5 1st Inv 1 2 5 2nd Inv 1 3 5 LH Root 5 3 1 1st Inv 5 3 1 2nd 5 2 1. These are generally natural ways that fingers mould into the shapes the chords make, though like I say others work too

@josephmwamburi3580 Жыл бұрын

Please can you show me how to do root c complete Iverson

@davidfarmer2049 6 ай бұрын

Some good ideas. Can one cord shape also be called another......even in a totally separate circumstance (like a minor key)? Your gonna say yes of course all the time(?) anyone?

@Big.Joe.Grizzly Жыл бұрын

Please can someone help me understand something. At 1:28 you play C maj chord using the fingers 1, 2, 3. But I have been doing it with 1, 3 ,5. I don't understand which one is correct because it seems different people play them with different fingers. I guess my question is does it matter which fingers I use or not because I'm worried that I've been learning songs using the wrong fingers and I will have to relearn them again if I've been doing it wrong. Thank you in advanced

@abdeljabarelgueddari735 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, I've discoverd before 2 days this thing with the name circle of fifths. Holly shit! Magic! The Allrounder I would say. I'm still studing it proufoundly, don't check everthing but I know it, the whole music theorie is inside it. Very helpfull tool. Time will tell Marley said :) Any hints?

@PianoFromScratch 3 жыл бұрын

Yea it is a handy way of organising and displaying things. It's really useful when you're practicing something in every key as an organised way of hitting them all (there's other ways too) You may hear it called the circle of 4ths too as if you go anti clockwise, it moves in 4ths

@Nick-ui9dr Жыл бұрын

Okay! What is E G B .. E minor or C major7 without root? 😀 Or C Eb F# ... C diminished or Cm b5?

@PianoFromScratch Жыл бұрын

Well if you haven’t played the C , or if a bass player for example hasn’t either, then that’s usually going to be the E as the root. Of course there may be exceptions depending on what you’re doing

@nicojar Жыл бұрын

When you play rootless voicings and the bassist is trying to follow your left hand :D

@francessmith165 7 ай бұрын

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@xnslrzn Жыл бұрын

i get a 3rd confused with tones and semitones. because a third from the root, is 4 semitones up and then how is there another 3rd from the first third but not equaling 4 semitones?

@PianoFromScratch Жыл бұрын

There’s 2 types of 3rd, major 3rd and minor 3rd. Major 3rd is 4 semitones, minor 3rd is 3 semitones. Check out my chord building video and you’ll see how we can stack 3rds to create chords

@moontan91 Жыл бұрын

but i think it would be better to call a Major chord in root position, for example, being a major 3rd interval with a minor 3rd on top of it. i feel just calling them "3rd" is confusing.

@zeroossi5967 8 ай бұрын

hwo can that help me in reading music ?

@PianoFromScratch 8 ай бұрын

When you recognise chord and inversion shapes on the page, you can read them quicker as one thing instead of picking out each individual note. Then when you go actually to play them, it's easier when those positions are already familiar on the piano.