Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Writing and playing chords, whether on a piano, another instrument or in a DAW, can be very satisfying. But creating good chords - chords that are “voiced” well - demands a little bit of skill. It’s not a difficult thing to do, but unless you get it right your chords can wind up sounding muddy or ineffective.

Getting a good sound from your chords comes down to managing voicings (the way you space and organise a chord’s notes), inversions (which vary by the bass note in a chord) and any chord extensions that are being used. In this tutorial we look in detail at all three to help you achieve that big, fat, warm chord sound.

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00:00 Chords can sound good… or bad
03:16 Chord voicing basics
05:30 Closed vs open voicings
06:42 Overtones and the harmonic series
10:38 A sample chord progression
11:59 Chord inversion basics
14:05 The effects of different chord inversions
18:18 Voicing extended chords