How to Play a 154 1st Inversion Chord Voicing

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mike Lais and on behave of Expert Village this is Piano Chord Voicing. Now we are going to do a one, five, four starting with a first inversion chord. This is nice because it gives you a couple of options with the way you want to go. One, five, four in the first inversion, it sounds like this. We are going to be in the key of G. So we are going to start off with a G chord. And then we are going to do the five chord, then the four, and then the one chord. If you noticed there I used two root positions. We are going to start off in the first inversion on the G which is going to be three, five, one. And now I decided just to take this up. So we are going to go one, three, five on the five chord in root position. You can just bring that down to another root position on the four. One, three, five and then go back to it. Another way you can do this, if you were going to try to set it up so that you could not be in a different position on the keyboard, you would want to start off on your first inversion and then you do a second inversion on the five. And then you could either do another second inversion or you can go to the root. Like that, just going to the root. If you were going to go one, second inversion and to another first inversion that brings us right back to a rooted one chord which it kind of lands a little bit harder so when you are done you kind of want to end on a root position chord. One more time, with the other way to do things is we are going to start off with a first inversion. We are going to go to a root position five, root position four, first inversion one. That is first inversion once, five, four."