Where to Begin - Chord Inversions & Voice Leading

[@phillustrator]

I'm glad you exist. You explain so beautifully.

[@lighterwaves5659]

🔥🔥🔥

[@gjb7966]

just discovering the channel. amazing content, guys! so helpful. finally a music theory teacher i resonate with. thank you so much for making and publishing these :)

[@ImpliedMusic]

Welcome aboard!

[@patrickj8581]

It would be cool to see an example of you coming up with a melody and then adding the chords you think go well with it ✨️

[@NeuroPete]

This is a terrific summary. Thanks.

[@CraigPMiller]

Combined inversions and suspensions and realised Csus4 was also Fsus2/C & Csus2 was Gsus4. The circular nature of music blows my mind 😨 😎👍

[@ImpliedMusic]

Sus chords are ambiguous! It’s mind blowing

[@SpeakOfTheDavel]

Great practical lessons. Thx Chris

[@ImpliedMusic]

Glad it was helpful!

[@FondueBrothers]

So the Melody note is allways the top note of the chord?

[@ImpliedMusic]

great question. while that's what i've shown. it's by no means the only solution. vocal harmonies often appear above the melody. keyboard parts typically voice this way.

[@Bixdood]

you lost me at 8:00... you are changing the notes by step? those are not inversions. inversions are when you take a note of chord and drop it or up it by an octave.

[@ImpliedMusic]

i think you've misunderstood what i'm talking about. as we move from chord to chord, the voices within each chord move by 1.) not at at all, or 2.) a step. the result is we get inverted chords, but that's a by product. the intent is smooth voice leading. does this explanation help?