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EKS Lesson Five  Introducing inversions

A chord progression

Songs often contain several chords linked together to form a chord progression, which becomes the basis of the song. Let us add another chord to our progression – the chord of G. We now have three chords, A, D and G.

We changed from A to D using an inversion. Now use an inversion of the G chord to move from the D chord. The notes of the G chord are G, B and D, but remember you do not have to play them in this order!

Look at your left hand as you play the D chord. What are the notes in the chord?

The task is to understand how you can change these notes easily into the notes of the G chord using an inversion.

Next: Changing chords D to G (root position)