From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
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Dominant chord inversions
From the course: Beginning Blues Keyboard
Dominant chord inversions
- Let's look at the chord voicings that I played in the example. We always want to have good voice leading so I've inverted the dominant chords just as we did with triads. Dominant chord inversions work the same way as triad inversions but because we have one more note in the chord, we have one more inversion. Let's take a look at the chords in our D blues. The first chord was D7. D, F#, A, and C. Now, in order to have the D on the top I played it in first inversion. F#, A, C, D. On the four chord G7, I kept D as the top note by playing G7 in third inversion. That is with F on the bottom. F, G, B, D. Moving to the five chord, A7, I used the third inversion again. G, A, C#, E. I only had to move a whole step to get from G to A. Let's comp through our chord progression again. (blues piano music)
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