The Chord Inversions Survival Guide! Everything you need to know! 7ths and 6ths Guitar Lesson!

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Not a glamorous one today, but a profoundly important one! A reference video with the intention of getting all of my subscribers onto an even playing field. This, of course, will make future videos much easier to follow!
In this lesson we go through all of the essential chord inversions from our fundamental E, A and D string rooted shapes for 7ths and 6th chords. This will give you everything you need in order to truly understand how inversions work, and of course understanding is the first step towards being able to actually USE these things!
I would highly recommend downloading the lesson materials provided at the link above.. all of the topics covered in this lesson are typed up nice and neat and provided in both guitar pro and PDF formats. Having these to hand whilst following along with the video will certainly make things much easier to absorb.
⏱️Time Stamps ⏱️
A String Shapes;
00:40 - Major 7ths
02:36 - Dominant 7ths
03:29 - Minor 7
04:36 - Minor 7 flat 5
05:46 - Diminished 7th
D String Shapes;
07:00 - Major 7th
08:18 Dominant 7
09:13 Minor 7
10:12 Minor 7 flat 5
10:58 Diminished 7
E String shapes;
11:32 - Major 7
12:40 - Dominant 7
13:37 - Minor 7
14:17 - Minor 7 flat 5
15:00 - Diminished 7
15:30 - Multipurpose Shapes (6ths)
16:40 - Homework!
Reference videos;
Jazz Survival Guide..
• Jazz Survival Guide - ...
Essential chord voicings from triads..
• THIS is what you shoul...
Tri-tone Substituion..
• Tritone Substitution 1...
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[@markham56]

Respect! I’ve been playing for 50+ years and there are still shapes I don’t know, forgotten and just flat can’t play. Great video!

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks for the comment buddy, really glad you found the lesson useful 🙏🏻

[@andrewwilson888]

Lightbulbs are flashing in my head after seeing the first explanation of moving a chord along the fretboard to reach the next inversion. This is great! Going to carefully watch the rest and give it a go as well as checking out the other video you recommend. Thanks!

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks for the comment Andrew, I'm so glad the lesson was useful! 🙏🏻

[@antoinenioi6863]

I don’t why but my head don’t want mémorise so much chords position…but as you write in the title of the video all guitar player needs to know this knowledge. ..I planning two months to learn all this chords position. Thanks for your excellent advices Alex 👍

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

No worries buddy, it’s hard to memorise this stuff. It’s much better to really understand the system so you’re not just memorising shapes, but building them as you go via understanding the logic behind it. It’ll take a lot of constant work but stick with it and you’ll feel liberated with your chord work!

[@antoinenioi6863]

Thanks my friend for your precious encouragements! Yeah to lighten the workload it’s cool to use the law of the 80 /20 … and understand the construction of the chords ‘..éduquate the ear to heard them … practice to make réflexe of the differents positions..tchuss Alex

[@fredgeley]

saved to favourites , going to need a few watches

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Nice one buddy, glad you found it useful 👍🏻

[@faridzayish]

love how dark and swampy your tele tone 🤤

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks man! 🙏🏻🍻

[@DeGroove]

Important stuff, for sure, learning this opened up the fretboard for me. I’m not saying I know them perfectly because sometimes it still takes me too long to see the closest shape where I’m at. Just as many other lessons these always end in “take these through all 12 keys” and that’s where I seem to drop out most of the time, no matter how hard I try (so no criticism to you Alex, more so to myself). It must be done, but I find that to be the hardest part. I wonder if that’s the difference between a true master and his apprentice…? I’m looking forward to a follow up, where you put everything into an actual song, that’s what makes your channel so good, you follow through on using everything you taught. Thanks Alex, take care.

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks Gert. Indeed, it's a hard thing to sit down and work through.. takes a lot of patience and discipline.. but as you do more of it, the system behind it all becomes more and more clear, and you stop memorising shapes at that point as the intervals make themselves known across the entire fingerboard. Keep up the hard work and it WILL happen!

[@sukienukie551]

Yet another absolutely superb lesson. Thank you!! Weekends were made for this kinda thing! Love your explanations every time! AFG Patreon crew! 🔥🔥🔥

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thank you my friend, I really appreciate the kind words! Glad you love the lessons! 🙏🏻🧡

[@internalmethods]

I'm digging it. Very interesting to see the way that you approach things. I know here in the States most people either know these shapes from the caged system, or learn their triads on three string sets. Like any approach it's going to take some major pattern recognition or knowledge of music theory. Thank God I'm a jazz piano player and I just apply my knowledge to guitar.

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks buddy, and yeah that's absolutely right.. pattern recognition is a crucial part of this process so shapes can be adapted on the fly like putty in the hands. Jazz piano?.. kudos to you my man! 👌🏻

[@andyknightguitarist]

Awesome, this is right up my street, been meaning to work this out, perfect start to a Sunday morning coffee and inversions cheers ☕️👍🏻

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Cheers Andy! Glad you’re into it 👍🏻

[@markfisher1215]

Great lesson Alex. Well presented and I’ll be happy to get all the grips down.

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thank you Mark, I'm glad you enjoy these lessons too. I'll keep adding these "fundamentals" videos from time to time so that we end up with a comprehensive reference guide that can be revisited and refreshed 👍🏻

[@JazzStrat781]

Wonderful video as always 🎸🙏 thanks so much brother, keep up the great work!

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thank you my friend, always appreciate your comments. I'm really glad you enjoyed the lesson 🙏🏻

[@portsideguitar1981]

Always a plethora of useful information. Great lesson Alex.

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks mate, glad you found it useful 🙏🏻

[@fkp-1353]

Another great lesson. Thank you, Alex!

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻

[@aminahmed2220]

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Alex also Thursday was my oldest sister birthday also i had a stomach ache also a stomach flu for three days ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks buddy, glad you enjoyed it! Happy Birthday to your sister, and I hope you feel better soon mate! 🙏🏻🧡

[@elrafa782]

Yeah, inversions, much easier to understand than incorporate in our playing… can’t wait to see the way you see this 😉

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks buddy, hopefully this video will give you some good stuff to work on in preparation for a future video where we apply all the shapes! 👌🏻

[@rafa_guitar]

@@AlexFarranGuitar Looks promising, thanks, have a nice weekend all!

[@matthewcasey892]

Nice and concise

[@user-kt1re6ui4s]

Your videos are always brilliant my man, and what a beautiful sound!

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks so much! 🙏🏻

[@planeofinertia7433]

From my two cents; INVERSIONS are like suitcases, that carry the little melodic timbrels, and whistle's into the Sylvan. Lovely lesson. ~ Inertia

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks for the comment my friend, I concur with your sentiments re: inversions 👌🏻

[@rafa_guitar]

Very interesting, thanks Alex!

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks buddy, hopefully it'll have a few lightbulb moments for people in regards to how inversions work!

[@karllongbottomguitars9192]

So this will apply to any chord. The root moves to the third, third to fifth etc etc

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Exactly mate, a good system for finding your own inversions from any starting shape! 👍🏻

[@richdunn9799]

Thanks Alex! It is probably impossible to practice this too much. For extra credit I am going to use each shape for arpeggio up and scale down and arpeggio down and scale up. That should keep me busy for a long time!!

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Clever idea Rich, definitely would recommend that as part of a daily warm up routine for a few weeks 👍🏻

[@dimensionstomorrow]

I have been working on this with a text book recently here in Japan, and I was wondering if I was wasting my time since so many jazz players seem to stress that big chords aren’t good for band situations since they eat into other musicians’ sonic space. This video seems to hit home that it’s actually important to get these down. I have to say some of those first inversions are a nightmare to get under the fingers, especially that major7. The way you do it, it seems the stretch gets easier.

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

Thanks for the comment buddy. Sure thing.. in reality it's important to learn it all of course. The smaller voicings for Freddie Green style rhythm playing, but these bigger voicings for chord melody and comping ideas. All essential to have under the fingers. 👍🏻

[@dannynyima1781]

Waiting on it like I waited for that inoue monster boxing match….

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

😂 glad you’re looking forward to it buddy!

[@loontil]

Some fruity chords there cuz

[@AlexFarranGuitar]

The fruitier the better! 🍓