Learn About the Minor 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. The third inversion of the minor 7th chord. Again when we're talking about 7th chords, we're going to have four voices in the chord so we're going to need four different ways to play it--root position, first inversion, second inversion and third. And the third is just starting out on the seventh of the chord and then spelling the remaining notes. So what we're going to do, let's say--let's again take the C minor 7. Okay, we're right here. And I'm going to want the flat 7, which is the B flat in this case, to be the base note of the chord. So I'm just going to take this whole little triad, the minor triad, and throw it on top of the B flat. So we're going to go B flat or flat 7--1, flat 3 and then 5. Okay? And that's going to be your minor 7th chord spelled out on the third inversion. So another way to think of that, well, if we're here in the root position minor 7, I'm just taking the B flat or the 7th and I'm bringing it to the bottom of the chord. All right? Just like that. So that's going to be your third inversion--flat 7, 1, flat 3, 5.

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