Learn About the Major 7th Chord's 3rd Inversion

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MIKE LAIS: Hi, I'm Mike Lais. And on behalf of Expert Village, this is playing piano 7th chords. All right. So now that we are--got the first inversion, second inversion and root position of 7th chords--now that we have the 7th chord, you gotta remember there's four notes in the chord as opposed to just three with the triad. So we're going to have another inversion, and the last inversion we're going to talk about is the third inversion, which is--it's very simple. All we're going to be doing is taking the 7th and putting that on the bottom of the chord. So let's get an example of that. Here again, we're going to start with the C chord, C major 7, and that is that in root position. And all I want to do is I want to take these three, the whole triad and put it on top of the 7th. Right? So the spelling is going to go 7, 1, 3, 5. Okay? So that's that. You can also think of it as you're taking the C major 7 root position and just taking the 7th and putting it beneath the whole chord, just like that. See? So again, that's going to be 7, 1, 3, 5 for your third inversion of a major 7th chord, in which case here, we're talking about C. And that is your third inversion of a major 7th.

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