Voicing

- There are many ways to voice a chord.…Root position of a triad is the most basic way.…(piano chord)…The first and second inversions are two more ways;…first inversion E-G-C and second inversion G-C-E.…Playing the root, first inversion, and second inversion…of the C major triad on guitar is straightforward as well.…(guitar strums)…The voicing of the triad or chord refers…to the order of the notes, but it also refers…to where the notes are played.…

There are seven octaves on a piano,…and at least eight instances of each note.…What's to stop us from playing these three notes…spread out across the keyboard?…Nothing.…Here's a C major triad spread out across three octaves.…(piano chord)…We can spread the root, 3rd, and 5th of a triad across…the keyboard anywhere we want to…to achieve the sound we're looking for.…This is what a voicing is: it's the vertical or harmonic…spacing and ordering of the pitches in a chord.…

Voicing also pertains to the instrumentation…of pitches in a chord.…This means taking the notes of the triad…