How To Identify Chord Inversions Instantly

[@PianoFromScratch]

Start putting some inversion shapes into practice next by learning your first accompaniment pattern here! 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipq3qWhom7KqZ9k

[@99timewaster]

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]

Best explanation of inversions ever 😮

[@sleepystew1184]

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

[@richard135b7]

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.

[@jonimaricruz1692]

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! 🫶✌️

[@Humanbeering]

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

[@T-marie-N]

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!

[@angieLoved]

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

[@anishpatelwork]

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]

Glad it was helpful!

[@pds002]

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.

[@raymondjoseph8040]

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

[@ChenwiPaul]

Brilliant insight. Thank you Sir

[@kikumi4637]

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!

[@Kr1t1kal-JS15]

THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH THANK YOU

[@kennethwelsby2143]

Thanks very much for awesome work!

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

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.

[@jaishriram2020]

Really appreciate!! Awesome 👍👌👌

[@adriankolsters]

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

[@johnbell913]

Very good job. I am learning piano.

[@janmountford4865]

Wonderful explanation thanks

[@nickmorley1159]

Can you do a similar thing with 7ths?

[@snehadeshmukh2374]

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

[@PianoFromScratch]

Thanks, I hope you find it helpful

[@ivainezharris2279]

Very well explained!

[@GuruNishtha]

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

[@Jason-rk4xc]

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

[@PianoFromScratch]

Awesome, thanks!

[@dwayneporter2515]

Very good shape training for inversions and chords

[@abdeljabarelgueddari735]

A great video again! Thank you so much!

[@PianoFromScratch]

No probs, thanks for watching!

[@wjray]

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

[@miritmizrahi6496]

gorgeous video! thank you 😊

[@franciscocalvo1980]

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

[@PianoFromScratch]

Thanks, hope it helped

[@botehtv]

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

[@bettyennin6335]

You are a great tutor. Thanks!

[@whotheloveisedgar]

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]

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

[@theoriginalbrickbat]

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.

[@HillelBlank]

Really helpful. Thanks!

[@superjonz9958]

This is very helpful! Thank you very much 🙂

[@leahgodson2319]

So well explained; thank you very much!

[@crucommu1]

Great lesson! Thanks!

[@izacmusic7000]

best tutorial I've ever seen

[@2002jorgeparr]

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

[@SilasJrOficial]

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

[@noeljager9696]

What a great explanation - Thank you :)

[@timajrobins]

Hello. Don't think I've ever commented on a KZbin 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]

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

[@jph7957]

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?

[@sheilamaetalisic281]

Thank you for this.!! 😇

[@carolynkirkman]

Soooooooo HELPFUL!!!!! Thank YOU

[@paulbennett8984]

tallent for teaching piano0o by ear - i highly recomend

[@sarathw5740]

This is a great way to remember this mammoth task,

[@PianoFromScratch]

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 🙂

[@6moon18]

amazing thanks

[@stu13th]

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

[@ashanesmusicdiary4972]

I started watching this and I thought wow

[@ErixSamson]

Very useful

[@michellemonet4358]

Wow. ❤❤❤. Perfect

[@richardwinstanley3859]

Excellent

[@lesharris9560]

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

[@rogerye03]

THnxx❤

[@mauriciotrimani7595]

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

[@PianoFromScratch]

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]

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

[@Big.Joe.Grizzly]

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

[@JosiahGideon-l8r]

How can i build my chord inversion

[@nandaverwijk5865]

Master man god blezz

[@isaacshaw1596]

Very thorough but also a little over complicated it a little. It's hard to explain the easy stuff sometimes. They are sometimes the harder ones to get because once you learn basic theory everything else follows similar logic so becomes easier as you go.

[@xnslrzn]

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]

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

[@Nick-ui9dr]

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

[@PianoFromScratch]

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]

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

[@davidfarmer2049]

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?

[@zeroossi5967]

hwo can that help me in reading music ?

[@PianoFromScratch]

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.

[@moontan91]

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.

[@abdeljabarelgueddari735]

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]

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

[@francessmith165]

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[@cMaXeJIJIo]

I’m Root! 😂

[@amrishvijayvast]

Very useful. Thanks a ton!

[@JosiahGideon-l8r]

How can i build my chord inversion