EKS Lesson Five Introducing inversions
EKS Lesson Five Introducing inversions
Chord progressions work well and sound good because all the notes of each triad are present. The ear is not adversely affected by inversions. The ear simply hears the triad as a triad sound, and can easily make sense of it. Often though, the bass guitar player will be playing the root note of the triad. This has the effect of anchoring the sound of the chord and confirms what the ear is hearing.
Let us check this ourselves using the following exercises, which have a bass root note in the left hand and the chord in the right hand.
Exercise 7 uses half notes and our last exercise (Exercise 8) uses quarter notes, which will increase further your ability to move fluently between chords. We are using the same chord progression of A, D G, D.
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