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Chord voicings and inversions are fairly basic music theory concepts that are important to pianists. However, because they are closely related to one another they can sometimes be confusing to people in the early stages of learning the instrument, or to those who have have piano lessons but are learning to improvise.
So in this tutorial I set about explaining the difference between voicings and inversions, and how they’re related to each other. Every chord has a voicing and an inversion. Inversions are perhaps the slightly trickier concept, but working out the inversion of any chord basically just involves looking at the bass note and having an understanding of the structure of the basic chord.
My book: billspianopages.com/how-to-really
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Chord voicings and inversions are fairly basic music theory concepts that are important to pianists. However, because they are closely related to one another they can sometimes be confusing to people in the early stages of learning the instrument, or to those who have have piano lessons but are learning to improvise.
So in this tutorial I set about explaining the difference between voicings and inversions, and how they’re related to each other. Every chord has a voicing and an inversion. Inversions are perhaps the slightly trickier concept, but working out the inversion of any chord basically just involves looking at the bass note and having an understanding of the structure of the basic chord.
