How to play and practice chord inversions (Major and Minor) // Full beginner tutorial

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Inversions are a fundamental part of learning to play piano for every beginner. They're useful for any style you're learning to help you get familiar with the keyboard and understand how to begin playing chords in different ways. We want to get them fluent eventually so we can use them easily but the first step is to understand them properly, be able to figure them out and learn the basic music theory. Now we're actually playing them and getting used to the inversion shapes of every major and minor chord going through fingers and technique.

Come back for the follow up videos for tips on playing, practicing, recognising and memorising them!

🎹 You can watch PART 1 HERE on understanding inversions,
a bit of theory and how find inversions for any type of chord

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TIMESTAMPS ⏰

0:00 What you need to practice
01:50 Quick Recap
2:30 Playing individual inversion shapes (Right hand + fingers)
5:20 Visualising the chord stream
8:22 Technique - How to move through inversions
12:16 The rest of the white note chords
14:13 Practice
15:27 The next group of chords to learn
17:56 Hand positioning for the rest of the chords
20:30 Left hand fingers
15:27 The ne

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[justshoby]

Visualising the chord stream was such a fantastic exercise! Thanks for sharing ❤

[liseauffray]

I've been playing of and on for several years. I just happened upon one of your videos and then watched several. I like the way you use visuals of the shapes, especially helpful for inversions. You've given me a whole new way of looking at these, that will make may playing easier. Thank you!

[kenschiavo]

I love the visualization of the keys...man it's a brilliant way of helping with inversions.I am struggling to find them, especially for songs involving a few black keys...this is absolutely the coolest way I've seen to help. Also, we can always either use thumb, middle or pinkie to play the root note, that also helps...and just try and visualize the other 2 notes in the chord, since the root note will be the same.

[brendadavies]

Absolutely brilliant xx you are the best I’ve seen thank you

[lawrencetaylor]

I watched your videos two years ago, and just watched for old times sake. You have the best method for teaching chords, period.

[natneedle]

I think you are a wonderful and insightful teacher, and I think my students will slowly come to see that as well. You really put so much thought into how students think and feel. Thank You!

[LilianaLytvyn]

The most helpful video on memorizing and practicing inversions I’ve seen (and I’ve seen quite a few!) Thank

[jorgeparr]

YOU MAKE LEARNING MUSIC THEORY FUN AND INTERESTING THANKS 😊

[BobJJ]

Your teaching style is first class! ( I’ve been a teacher for years! Not a piano teacher!) Thank you.

[lpa]

Thank you for your videos. I am so happy that I found you. You are very logical and step by step— perfect for the way I learn. I would like to ask if you have more videos on chord inversions. I have watched four of them and they are excellent. I am looking for a lesson that shows you how to use inversions of different chords in a song so you don’t have to make large jumps between chords. I hope that makes sense and thanks again!

[Jason-rkxc]

Such great content on this channel, I wish you well mate.

[ryanbautista]

At first I don't understand why do we need to study inversions, but when I already tried doing it I found them very useful.

[richardb]

Your videos are amazing and so insightful. You have a special gift for teaching. Thank you

[joshatus]

Thank u so much for the tips.
Great stuff to learn it with ease.

[markuskukla]

Really great video, helps me a lot as a rookie

[l.j.]

That video was pretty helpful, thanks!

Can you do a video about sight reading, more precisely, a video in where you explain the most common music symbols?
I try to learn sight reading and I have a hard time figuring out what all these different symbols mean and for example why some notes are connnected by lines etc.
Or do you have any tips?

[peterwalton]

Thanks for another great video. Weirdly, I seem to like practising chords and scales, etc, much more than actual pieces! Also like improvising to your backing tracks. Looking forward to the next video 😊👍

[torugodfrey]

Great video🎉
But what is the left hand pattern

[jph]

Very helpful advice, thank you! I'm never reminded too much to relax my wrist, when appropriate...

[mitchy_blacc]

is learning inversion chord only on the right hand an alright standard to learn??