Chords for Must Know Guitar Chord Inversion Trick! Making Your Chords More Interesting

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Hey folks, happy days.
How you doing?
Andy with you for another nail guitar [Ab] skills lesson.
Today we're taking a look at a really, really cool skill that I'm sure you're going to appreciate
very much putting into your playing.
It is the idea of making your chord playing more
interesting.
Now, the first thing you can do to make your chord playing more interesting
is learn more than just your major and minor chords, which is the standard thing that everyone
learns because that's what most songs are made up mostly of.
So, [A] getting outside that
box is a great way to go of learning some suspended chords, some seventh chords.
The
problem is as soon as you throw one of those chords in place of your regular chord, for
instance if we learn to play, okay, I'm Andy, I know how to play A chord.
Okay, I want to
get more [Ab] interesting with my chord, so I learn to play an [A] A7. _ _
That's really cool, so I have
a song that goes A, _ [D] D. _
[B] I go, let's see if I can make it more [A] interesting and make my _ _
[D] A7.
_ Now, [A] that sounds cool, but the problem is that's not always the sound you want because
that chord has different notes in it.
It has a different flavor, so you're kind of restricted
for when that chord is going to work to, you know, flavor up your playing and make it more
interesting.
So, the wonderful solution to this is inversions of chords.
Are you ready
for it?
Alright, so the beauty of inversions of chords is you're not changing the notes
that are in the chord.
The difference between an A and an A7 is you are adding an extra
note in there.
When we do inversions, we're playing the same notes, but we're just changing
the order.
So, for instance, an A chord has an A on the bass. _
[G] A G chord has a G on the
bass.
The [E] G is the lowest note.
E chord, in other words, the name of the chord tells you
the name of the bass note.
With [A] inversions, what we're going to do is we're going to change
around what is on the bass, what is the lowest note.
In this case, we're going to use the
third note in the chord as the bass note.
It sounds a little techy, but as long as you
can get the shapes around your hands, that's the most important thing.
So, here's how we're
going to do this.
You saw me playing [Eb] at the start there.
I was essentially [A] playing A bar
chord [Bbm] [D] up to D bar chord off the E string as well.
And I'm going to assume you know your
bar chords for this because this is really who this is aimed at for intermediate [Ab] players
who want to make their playing more interesting, their chord playing.
[A] So, I did A on the fifth
there, [D] D on the tenth.
I [Dbm] flipped over [D] to doing my bar chords on the A string.
I did D _ on
the fifth up to [G] G on the tenth.
Now, what we can do is we can make those little transitions
because I'm sitting on this A chord for a while and this is particularly good when you
are sitting on a chord for a long time to make things more interesting rather than just
[A] 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, [D] 4.
See how that?
That's the sort of situation that can get really
boring.
So, what we're going to do, we've got a full bar [A] of A, 1, 2, 3, 4.
I might stay
for the next two beats, 1, 2.
Then the last two beats of this bar, then I'm going to use
this little inversion.
Here's the shape for you.
Are you ready for it?
It is up on the
ninth fret.
It's going to look like a D chord except with different fingers underneath that.
_ The frets are going to be [Bb] 9, mute, mute, 9, 10, mute.
[A] There we go.
So, [B] you are going to
mute your A and [Db] your D strings.
_ [Bbm] Sometimes, on some occasions, [Ab] it can actually kind of
sound cool to let them ring out but then you've actually technically got a different chord
but it's all about musicality so it's worth [A] mentioning that. _ _
So, there it is.
Those chords,
this, A, _ and this, that's an A as well but [Db] _ we've now got the third of the [E] chord which
happens to be a C sharp on the bass [A] instead.
So, this is always going to work _ as an alternative
for that chord because it's the same notes.
So, it happens to work really nicely for working
up to this G chord that I've got here because it's one fret away. _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ And that's sweet.
You
can use it not necessarily just for that even though that's a great example.
You know, [A] say
I was going from A [B] down to F [Gbm] sharp minor.
_ [A] _ _ That's _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gbm] _
[B] how [A] it would sound normally if I throw
it in here.
Same deal again for the last two beats.
One, two, three, four.
One, two.
_ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] So,
what happens if you want to use this for a different chord?
Well, same deal again.
Obviously,
we're working off the E string here for these chords.
The way to work this out is you're
going to move up one, two, three, four [E] frets and [A] that's going to give you your bass [Abm] note.
It's going to [A] be the third of the chord.
So, I'm playing A there.
I'm going to move up
one, two, three, four to the ninth fret.
[Abm] If I'm playing a G major [G] chord, _ one, two, three,
_ four.
There it is for you.
I got a little buzz in my guitar there. _ _ _
That's the worst
thing about buzzes.
You can't tell where they're coming from. _
_ I'll work that out later.
[B] But,
say we move down to F.
Same deal [F] again.
One, [Bb] [A] two, three, four up to the fifth [F] fret.
_ _ _ _ Cool,
cool, cool stuff [A] for your barre chords there.
So, if you want to learn how to do the same
thing for your barre chords of your A string, so same sort of idea to give you more flexibility
with this, I'll give you a link so you can continue to the next part of this lesson.
All right, there it is for you.
It is a really, really cool technique to be able to throw
in because it's so dynamic.
You can use it in so many situations and it's kind of [Fm] foolproof.
Super, super [Gm] musical as well.
So, have fun doing that.
You might even land on some songs
that you use those along the track as well.
All right, my name is Andy.
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