Learn About the Minor 7th Chord's 2nd 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, we're going to do the second inversion of a minor 7th chord. The second inversion, just like everything else, it starts out on the 5th of the chord. But--and if we're going to take the bottom two notes, we're going to put 'em on top. So to give you an example here, we're going to start off. First, let's play the root position just so we all get familiar. This is a C minor 7 in root position. All right? So now, if I want to be in second inversion, I want to be on the 5th, which is this G chord, or the G note, in this case. Okay? So I'm going to spell it out. We're going to go 5, flat 7, 1, flat 3. I like to play it like this; it's a little better. Okay? It's the same chord that we took from here, and we just brought it up to where we start out on the 5, taking the bottom two notes and putting 'em on top. You see that? And that's going to be your minor 7th chord in second inversion. And this will come in handy when it comes to playing a whole bunch of chords and you're doing a bunch of sevenths. Like, let's say, if I were going to be coming from, let's say, a G minor 7 and I wanted to go to a C minor 7, all I had to is drop those two right there. So that's going to be your second inversion of a minor 7th chord.

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