Home Music Events Forums Articles Music Blog Resources   Help
About MacJams.com opens a new door of opportunity for musicians around the world, providing a means of connecting, collaborating, and fostering the development of new music in a supportive environment.
  1. Sign Up [free]
  2. Listen
  3. Locate Musicians
  4. Start a Project
  5. Submit a Song
  6. Participate
Login
Username:
Password:
Who's Online Invisible Members: 0
Guests: 13
inversions tutorial
by VicDiesel

Get Flash to see this player.

| Download |
Song Info
Licensing Information:


Attribution-ShareAlike

Guest views: 535
Member views: 0
Song comments: 10
Tokens: 0
Plays: 73
Last Played:
Downloads: 48
Fans of this song:
Submitted on: Aug 23, 2007 - 07:30:03 PM
Last Updated: Aug 23 2007 - 09:38:50 PM
Description About inversions, why what how when and where.

(Ok, there is an error: where I claim to be playing C-G-F-G I'm actually playing C-G-F-C. So sue me. This was an off the cuff one-take.)
Fan List

chikoppi

dolby

Moviz

mvh9591

bud

lengold
You must be registered and logged-in to comment.

said 504 days ago
Cbgb
Now play!!!! this was an interesting listen

chikoppi said 504 days ago
This is great!
I'm glad you covered the use of inversions to keep the bass on the same note and change the chords over it. Its also nice to hear a live example of how inversions can make it easy to improvise harmonies and quickly find related chords for a progression.

For another tutorial on inversions:
http://www.macjams.com/song/34737


.

sloparts said 504 days ago
Very Interesting
It helps to cover this stuff and explain what we're already doing, as you said. You sometimes use it and then other times when you're writing, you forget about it. Hearing you go through this helps to remind me that it's there.

Thanks for the lesson, and the reality check

Ed

dolby said 504 days ago
Brilliant!
Thanks Vic,

Very informative. This is why I love MJ's!
Maybe audio tutorials like this could become a feature of the site. It always makes more sense when you hear/see someone doing it - rather than reading it out of a book.

Thanks again,
Very useful,
Phil

VicDiesel said 504 days ago
Welcome!
Glad this helped.

Personally I've been reading music for absolutely for ever, so seeing something in a book makes as much sense as hearing it, but not everyone works that way.

Audio tutorials can indeed be very useful, and things like this dont' take a whole lot of time to make. I'll see if I have more ideas.

Victor.

---
--
I review yours, you review mine, 'kay?

Axgrinder said 503 days ago
Thanks for the free lesson Vic!
I play solely by ear and I am aware that "Root Third and Fifth" makes a chord/three note harmony! So I guess I really don't know what I'm doing but rather fake it quite well? This was pretty good of you my friend! My lawyer will be in touch.

Alvin

Moviz said 503 days ago
I think
this is really great. What a good idea to do a little tutorial like this on here. Very helpful to a lot of people, Thanks Victor, M

DWL said 503 days ago
It helps to be sitting near a keyboard
when listening to this!

Good stuff. A useful exercise and maybe there should be a few more of these. Video ones would be good as well.

Cheers

Dick



mvh9591 said 501 days ago
Music Theory 101___
Vic, Thanks for the lesson. Education in music theory is always good but rarely practiced in my case.

Appreciated,

mvh : )

Heightened said 378 days ago
THanks
for taking the time to help. Much appreciated. Cheers.

Artist Profile
VicDiesel photo
VicDiesel

Artist Bio In previous lives Victor was a country fiddler, a shawm player at the Burgundy court, bellows pumper for JS Bach, Geoff Emerick's factotum, and a beggar playing drums in the streets of Calcutta for alms. Unusually, the memories of all that come back to ...[more]
Artist Music
Tracks
The Huron Carol
In memory of 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians
Zero velocity surfaces
Ummm
If you lived, you'd be
The Last Pavane
Trans Appalachia Express
Under reflection
Spit
Guards of the Cannon
Disco Loop-de-loop
My contention
Dirt Roads
It all adds up
The Queen's Minuet
Vermillion cliffs
Bass-Box
inversions tutorial
Night Calls
The Minstrel Boy (Rebsie Vocal Mix)
Modus Locutus
Autumn's Allemande
Fredo's chanson
Doctor Good
My favourite gorgon
North Rim
Back Pedal
Larissa (w/ John Hulaton)
Bright orange pez dispenser
Ma Follia
Essays in idleness
The Natives are Restless - the coming of Ikhabod
The Natives are Restless
Duelling Sarods
Fourth Gear
Memory of friends gone by