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Summary: Learn about dominant seventh chord's third inversion in this free video music series that will teach you how to utilize one of the essentials of mastering the piano - playing seventh chords.
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Questions & AnswersMIKE LAIS: Hi, I'm Mike Lais. And on behalf of Expert Village, this is playing piano 7th chords. The dominant 7th third inversion. Again, we're dealing with four voices of a chord, which means that there's going to be four different ways that you can play it, starting with each note being on the bottom. And the third inversion is going to be when you have the 7th on the bottom of the chord. So the way we're going to do this, let's start off again with the C7, and there's the root position. That's the root position of the 7th chord. So if I'm going to be on the third inversion, we want the whole triad above the 7th. So we're going to start off on the flat 7. We're going to go I, III, V after that. Right? And again another way to think of that is just taking the 7th and putting it underneath, just like that. Okay? So if I were in--let's say, if I were doing--if I were playing a G minor 7 in the first inversion, I can just go to the third inversion of the 7th chord, and that's going to bring me right there without moving. See? And that sets you up to land on F, in this case. But again, the third inversion is flat 7, 1, 3, 5.
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