1st Inversion of a Major Triad on the Mandolin

Video Transcript

"Okay, so, the first inversion is the same chord. It's still a G chord. It's a fancier name. It's the same exact chord though. It's just with a different note in the base which is why you call it an inversion. It still sounds the same as our root position. Our root here is in the middle. Okay. Those are our three notes. And instead of - and it's the way it's stacked here, this is a B on the bottom, a G, and then a D. And now once again because the instrument is tuned symmetrically, we can then move that shape around. All we need to do is find the G here on this middle string. The G is on the middle of this one. We're going to move it up a next set of strings, and come up to G here. Here's our G in the middle okay. So it's kind of an approach that focuses on where the note is. Okay. Where the root of the chord is that we're trying to build. So, because the G was on the bottom of our root position, it's called a root position chord. The G is on the middle of our first inversion, okay, so we're looking for the G on different places of the instrument, so, G, G. And we've also found another G actually, right here, right. Because it was our first inversion. G chord."