From the course: Learning Music Notation
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Inversions, slash chords, and polychords
From the course: Learning Music Notation
Inversions, slash chords, and polychords
- [Teacher] At times, a song writer or arranger will want to communicate more than the chord quality and the presence of a seventh or chord extensions. Often, this is because they want to indicate a baseline or base note that isn't the root of the chord. So let's take a look at how to notate chord inversions. So, from our discussions, we know that the three notes in a C chord are C, E, and G and it doesn't matter what order that those notes occur in when they're played together. The C can be on the bottom, the C can be on the top, or the C can be in the middle. Anytime those three notes are present, the chord is a C major chord, but we do differentiate when one note is the bottom note versus one of the other notes. So when a C chord is played with the C as the lowest note, we refer to that chord as being in root position, and when you write the chord symbol, you don't need to do anything other than write the basic chord symbol. But if one of the other notes in the chord is in the…
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