Inversions are essential for jazz players, virtuoso cats such as Martin Tyler, but they are super-useful for any player looking for a fresh chord voicing. Let's take a look and demystify them with ...

You can create a rootless voicing for a major chord by building a minor 7th chord off the major 3rd. In the case of C major, the major 3rd is E, so you would play Em7 (E-G-B-D). You could then invert ...

Step 7: To practise inversions, set up a basic beat as a metronome, then leap up and down the keyboard playing a different inversion of C major each time, focusing on accurate playing and timing of ...

If we were to take a dominant 7th chord and move the 7th to the bottom (D/C, for example), we’d have a third inversion. In the jazz/pop/rock world, we normally talk in terms of voicings or slash ...