hey everybody Troy here this video is about chord inversions and how I approach chord inversions and how chord inversions started to make sense for me it was the biggest game-changer in my transition from blues to worship and it kind of like fast-tracked me once it all started to click so I'm gonna share with you my approach it's not the end-all be-all approach is probably not the most Theory oriented approach it's just what made sense for me so I'm gonna share it with you here we go hey buddy what's up wanna be in the video with me what's that I'll play soccer okay yeah how about we do it right now okay cool I'll see in a minute okay so this is gonna supplement the e-book that I have on the website guitar for his glory calm slash shop is where you can get that in the e-book it shows pictures of me fretting all these inversions has corn diagrams that show you the root third and fifth of each chord gives you an explanation of a how I think about the core and how I normally play it and all that stuff so you can get that at guitar for his glory calm slash shop it also has like a one page diagram that has all these chord inversions so you can just see and then it has the book to kind of complement that as well so let's jump into movable chord inversion number one first inversion shape is probably the most used inversion shape and worship music at least that I know of and it's this shape here and the way we think about this way I think about this it makes it easy for me especially when I was first learning these the quickest way to get there so let's think about our G bar chord shape you go up two frets one two and then you start building your inversion from there so it shares these two notes from this shape you had another fit with your ring finger then you add the root with your pinkie now played like that it's kind of muddy I don't play it like that it will play a triad typically saw a play or a dyad with just these two fingers using muting technique so middle fingers mutant the EA and D strings pinkies muting the high E string so like this or I move it to first finger and middle finger so again find your regular Barre chord move up two frets one two and then start building your inversion from there so let's say I want to find the same inversion as a C chord I find my C bar chord give up two frets one to start building the inversion okay so let's look at moveable and version number two this is going to be based on an a-shaped Secord so our a shape Secord looks like this we're gonna go up two frets one two they share these notes these two notes there and the fifth with your pinky and then a root with your pinky that's the inversion again I rarely play all those notes I usually play it as a dyad like this or a triad or try it like this fewer strings the better now again the pattern for this way I think about this one is find my see my regular a shaped Barre chord move up two frets one two and now I'm anchoring the inversion there [Music] so let's practice this let's find an F so I'm gonna go to my F shape bar chord let's root it on the a string move up two frets one two now I can start building my inversion moveable and version number three is a lot like number two it's just three heavy instead of five heavy sort emphasizing the third in this chord same thing we're gonna find our a shaped C chord we use these two notes here so the root and the third and that's it so play it like this or we're using the thumb to do some muting here of the low E and a little bit of the a string the actually all the a string pardon me the index finger is muting the D string and then I'm playing the G and B string so that's the root and the third and then we're muting the high E with the underside of our index finger if I want to play maybe something where I'm gonna end up move my pinky over or something for a chord to make that transition a bit easier I'll play it with my third finger and my pinky like this using my middle finger to drape over the tops of these strings to get that meeting going and then the pinky is still taking care of the muting of the high heat so let's practice this one to find it somewhere else let's say I want to find a G so I'm gonna find my a shape G bar chord move up two frets one two and I'm playing the root in the third moveable and version number four is kind of based on number two a little bit but we're gonna add in the root note and it's going to make this chord sound a bit bigger so let's find our a shape G chord we're gonna play the root the root and the third everything else gets muted so low E gets muted with our index finger D string gets muted with our index finger the underside there and then the high E string is muted with the underside of our pinky sounds like this so let's say I want to find this in a D I find my D shaped Barre chord I play the root I play the root and play the third and use muting technique for the rest of them alright moveable inversion number five is a lot like number three except we're going to replace playing the root root third we're gonna play root fifth third and mute some of the strings but in some cases we can let that open G ring out so let's find our a shape G chord we're gonna play a root 5th 3rd and we're gonna mute the g string with the underside of our ring finger here mute the low E with the index and meet the high E with the pinky so we have this chord here now because we're in the key of G we can actually let this open G ring out which is really cool makes for really big sounding chords so if you want to do that say in the key of a so let's find that in the key of a go up two frets play root fifth room fifth third now you can't let that open G ring out or you get that but if you take a capo slap it on the second fret so then your g string becomes an open a string you can do that pretty cool alright movable and version number six is based out of C chords we're gonna think of our see like you play it like a cowboy right like this [Music] now let's move our hand position so same exact notes being played just play it in a different way so our index finger is behind the nut so let's say we want to make this a G our pinky finger is routing this chord so it's on that C note so we just need to find a G note so our G is all the way up here at tenth fret slide that all the way up and we got to use this index finger back here so it's root third fifth root now I don't ever play this chord rarely I mean a 1% chance I play all the court arm notes like this it's more often played as a triad where I play third fifth root it gets muddy quickly so it's really good for arpeggiating stuff instead of just strumming flat-out so using that knowledge now we know our pinkie routes the cord so if this is a G and we want to make it a D all we need to do is find the D on the a string which is back here and we play that same shape moveable and version number seven is heavily related to moveable and version number one it just takes it up a notch basically so movable inversion number one was this guy dear what we're gonna do for movable inversion number seven is replace our ring finger with our index finger so we're here our pinkie is going to be replaced by our middle finger and then we're gonna put the pinkie up here in the tenth fret on the 5th so it's this root fifth so again how we build that we think of movable inversion number one so move up two frets replace ring finger with index finger replace pinkie with middle finger add the pinkie up on the fifth there and we get movable inversion number seven which is really really good for swells it's got a very clear sound and then it's also cool if you're doing movable kind of rhythm so something like [Music] it just connects really well this stuff like that now let's try to find this again somewhere else so let's say we want to find it in C start with our C bar chord go up two frets to movable inversion number one replace the ring finger with the index finger replace the pinky finger with the middle finger it's a pinky finger up there on the fifth and we have movable and version number seven okay so let's take a look at the minor inversions what we start to learn as we really get familiar with these chord shapes is that the major and minor chords don't differ a whole lot they share a lot of the same notes let's take a look at the moveable and version number eight and number nine okay so four moveable and version number eight we're gonna base on this a minor shape here and we're gonna play the root the third and the fifth now you'll notice it's a lot like the inversion we played before for the C which was just these two notes so to make that a C we just add a sea bass note or the band plays a sea bass note and we just play these notes off the band plays an a this becomes an a minor so I choose to play the minor chords either with the bass note fretted with my middle finger or my thumb just do muting for these two strings here I'm only fretting the low E the G and the B strings or I don't play any bass note at all and if the band is playing the a in the bass then they just made my chord minor for me now listen when I play the C it becomes major kind of uncomplicated things a little bit all right a moveable in version number nine is a minor chord we're actually make up minor seven don't be afraid though this minor seven can be played over any minor chord in the mix with all these instruments it's not going to make a big difference trust me on that one okay so we're in the key of a for this and we're gonna look at moveable and version number one to start this one out so we have our a bar chord two frets up one two this is our movable inversion number one now to make that an f-sharp minor which is the relative of a major we're just gonna add an f-sharp in the bass so our f-sharp notice here we're gonna mute the D string and mute the low E string and just play the G and the B along with that f-sharp bass sounds like this that's really cool the chord progression to say one six five four so we play a major is one F sharp minor is six so that F sharp at the base and then five four so there's just not a lot of movement that has to happen for those cords to work which is why I like to that shape a lot okay so let's make this an E minor what we're gonna do is find our G major Barre chord because e minor and G major relatives so we have G major one two up to get our movable inversion number one find are a bass note to make it a minor which is here middle finger goes there a minor okay guys so there it is that's my approach to chord inversions that's how I think about chord inversions I really really hope that was helpful the idea here is to kind of simplify things to break it down uncomplicated and then you can learn all the complicated theory stuff afterward but we want to get you fast-track to playing worse of guitar in a way that's going to contribute positively to your worship services so ultimately glory is brought to Jesus salvation has brought the people that don't know him and joy is brought to his people so I hope that was helpful for you guys if you have questions feel free to reach out to me comment in the comment section below head to the website however you want to get a hold of me I'm so happy to help you guys until then we'll see you next time