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Dominant Inversions

Instructor: Mike Edwin
Topic: Chords
Style: Blues
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    Chord Inversions - What are they? Mike Edwin
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    Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Blues

    Excerpt: Chord Inversions - What are they ?? An inversion is a name for a chord who's notes have been re-arranged. Lets start by looking at the Bb7 Chord. For each inversion I will give you a notated example of each chord as you might see it notated for a piano. This will make the inversion process more clear since pianos allow us to view notes in a more horizontal...

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    Dominant Inversions - 2nd Inversion Mike Edwin
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    Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Blues

    Excerpt: Dominant Inversions In this video, I will be giving you a demonstration on using the 2nd Inversion of a Dominant Chord. It is a short riff based on the first few bars of a I-IV-V blues progression. As we work through this tutorial, I will be giving you a few more bluesy type chordal passages to work on. Each with some kind of focus on a particular Inversio...

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    Dominant Inversions - 1st Inversion Pt.1 Mike Edwin
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    Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Blues

    Excerpt: Dominant Inversions 1st Inversion Part 1. Enjoy our new riff!! This demonstration is showing us one possible scenario for using the 1st Inversion. After you have played through and made some sense of this lesson, have a go at using the inversions we have looked at so far (along with any other voicing's of the Eb7 and Bb7 chord you know) to make your own p...

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    Dominant Inversions - 1st Inversion Pt.2 Mike Edwin
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    Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Blues

    Excerpt: This video is a follow up to part1 of the first inversion study. Hence part2. All I want you to do here is take notice of the similarities between the first inversion and the half diminished chord(aka m7b5) There are many other chord forms which can be related to the first inversion, for now though lets just familiarize ourselves with the m7b5 chord. A li...

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    Chord Inversions - Accompanyment Mike Edwin
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    Instructor: Mike Edwin Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Blues

    Excerpt: Before breaking down this track I want to point out our 3rd Inversion. As we discussed earlier, the 3rd inversion is a voicing that begins with the 7th degree of the chord as the Root note(bass note) and as it happens, this track begins with said voicing. On the video you will see me playing a simple accompaniment to a blues in Bb, 4 chorus in length. That...

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