Inversions Aren't Really a Thing? | No, You Don't Need to Memorise Them!
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- There's this thing going around which convinces you that you need to remember chord inversions. You don't. Once you know the basic chord structure (1357 and alterations thereof), combined with major scale mastery, you can find the notes needed immediately, without ever having played that particular chord type in that key and inversion ever before. I propose a poking exercise to help, along with some major scale tennis!
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00:00 - Intro
00:57 - The obsession error
01:52 - dtc Piano Challenge chords
02:51 - Templates 1357
03:39 - AbM7 example of poking
07:47 - D6 example of poking
09:32 - Play all the inversions if you want
10:21 - Major scale tennis/closing
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Great video Dan. Re. the Sting quote he said"If the band plays a C chord, it doesn't become a C chord, until I put a C at the bass of it. So playing the bass is a really good position to lead the band."
Major scale tennis!? Ha, very clever :D Amazing video as always, thank you mr. Dan ^^
This channel is a gold mine. But to extract all of the gold, one's gotta practice. A lot. Brilliant stuff!
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God bless you. You’re like my personal mentor… I wish you good health and prosperity.
Please keep making these videos, they’re supremely appreciated🥺
Thank you Dan, I can see how valuable the poking is! You've simplified what was a Huge encumbrance in my mind. I've spent too much time down the rabbit hole!
Absolutely love your videos and your take on "pianism", Dan!
I couldn't help but notice that the sound in this video is very low in volume. (This might be the case with some other videos of yours as well.) Not sure if you normalize the audio before uploading, or whether UA-cam has its own functions for this, but I thought I should give you a heads up anyway.
Thank you kindly. As you may notice, others have said the same. Shall be fixed for future ones! 🙋♂️🎹🎶
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Dan
love your attitude and teaching philosophy and application Dan. you are a gift!
Another jewel from Dan. Thanks a lot! :)
Thanks Dan for the video lesson on inversions. You are absolutely right. To flex inversions is not by muscling memory. Personally I enjoy playing inversions. They not only sound good but also conserve fingers movement thus improving precision and fluidity. Much appreciated, Dan 👍👍
I once heard Richter talk about the geography of the keyboard and never really understood what he meant. With this video, I think I have ! Thanks Dan. As always. I’m gonna be in Budapest between 9 and 12 September. Will you be there ? I’d love to offer you lunch or coffee to thank you for all those years of enlightenment at the piano (or away !!😜).
If yes, I will write to you through the site.
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching :) I shall be here indeed! Email me: danthecomposer@gmail.com - You're too kind, sir!
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Dan
Thank you!
Very low volume. Can’t hear we’ll. Thank you for your video though.
Yes I don’t know what happened on this one. I’ll make sure the rest are louder. Many apologies.
My opinion. Learn everything you can the more knowledgeable you are on the keys the more you can do thus its not good to be limited
Great video: Just a note: Sting IS the bass player. In the bit you are referring to he was saying he enjoyed being the bully because his instrument dictated the context of Andy's guitar.
Ah, thank you very much. I knew there was something I was missing in that quote so I'm thankful you have clarified it. It was years ago when I heard it... so yes, it's the bass which defines the key, not the inversion of a chord (or whatever bunch of notes you play!) The bass - defines - the key - thus note values - of the notes played! Simple really.
Hope you enjoyed the video nonetheless (sorry about volume).
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Dan
A bit of a weird question: Is it a muscle memory thing or does it also require a knowledge part of you memorizing the note names of each interval and key? I mean it is possible to think "I'm going to play the root and the seventh in C major" and then just knowing that the seventh will be one key away from the root. You can learn that relationship without internalizing that B is the seventh of C. You are mentioning the names in the exercise so I'm just curious if that is part of the learning, or if it is enough to be in the mindset of a specific key and then just practice how it feels to play the different intervals of the chord. Thanks, gotta revisit your books one of these days!
Sorry for delay! Comment slipped through the net. Thanks for yours. Your way is a cheat so you must avoid it. Don't learn intervals by cheats since it takes you out of the major scale. A good way out of this is to think of any notes randomly (away from the piano) and say what key it is the 1st (itself) of up to the 7th... for example: G... 1 of itself, 2 of F, 3 of Eb, 4 of D, 5 of G, 6 of Bb, 7 of Ab.. I did that now by visualisation, not shortcuts! :) This is how inversions can be found so quickly too: one template (1357 or alterations thereof) and done anywhere, anyhow, in any key!
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Dan
Love the content but sound volume seems lower than usual.
Yes. Sorry. Shall be fixed in the next. Don’t know why it recorded quieter. When I increased the volume, the piano sound got distorted too much. Thanks for letting me know.
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Dan
I thought Sting WAS the bass player (this poking excercise approach makes a lot more sense than memorising, much more dyanimic and intuitive than just having all these blocks. Kind of like how Allan Holdsworth would do it :) )
Yes, someone else mentioned that! Thanks for also clarifying. I knew I got into a muddle with that memory! And interesting comparison with Holdsworth... thanks for the indirect compliment! I once watched this video of his which you may enjoy and connected well with it: ua-cam.com/video/wts2Mw6Nb5s/v-deo.html
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Dan
Yeh that's the one i was thining of :) thinking of a chord sound or scale as a map of the whole instrument, rather than positions and inversions etc.
Makes sense, and its much closer to the way that information is accessed when playing i think. I definately made more progress in playing things that sound musical when i started thinking about the sound of different scale degrees in the context of the chords they sit in, than i did running up and down the scales (!)
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