Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music

Basic Music Theory

CHAPTER

CHAPTER 29 CHORD INVERSIONS

In This Chapter

• More General Chord Information


• Close and Open Harmony


• First Inversion


• Second Inversion


• Third Inversion

See deep enough, and you see musically;

the heart of nature being everywhere

music, if you can only reach it.

— Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and

Hero Worship