Learn How to Play Piano Chord Inversions

Series Summary

Music is one of the primary forms of communication on Earth. Whether the use of tones and melodies developed before, after, or in conjunction with spoken language is unknown; yet music is unique in that it helps us to talk to each other in ways that language cannot achieve.

Music creates a connection between people that is not limited by time, distance, or relationship; a song can speak to anyone, anywhere. That’s why music continually changes and grows, is still loved and still proliferates. Music is a living language.

In this free video series our expert, Mike Lais, will not only teach you about root position chords but also about inversions of those chords and how to create them in any key. He will show you 1st and 2nd inversions in simple 145 chords and also in the more complex 1625 chords. Take a look and jump on your keyboard!

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mike Lais. On behalf of Expert Village this is piano chord voicings. So playing chord voicings in this segment I'm going to teach you different ways to play your chords and so you can sound a little bit more professional with your playing as oppose to just jumping from block route position chords. We're going to throw in some inversions. Inversions are where you start off on a different note of the chord aside from the route we'll get into examples of that later on when we get in. But I'll show you the different inversions, we'll do some 1 4 5 1 4 5 progressions just some basic chord progressions and show you the different ways to play the inversions with those. So you can have the different fields on the piano it will give you a little bit different sound it might even inspire some of your writers out there to do some of that stuff. But we're just going to get started and play some chord voicing and teach you some things about the piano chords."