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Inversion practice.
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Now, you can try using the inversions
on some of the tunes we played earlier.
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So go back over earlier exercises,
and when you find yourself jumping too
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far around, then change the chords
to suitable inversions.
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So if you're going from a C to an F,
then try a C to an F middle, or
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G backwards back to C and so on.
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You'll get used to it.
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And remember that the left
hand doesn't invert anything,
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it just sticks with the root chord,
the root note, the root pattern, whatever.

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Okay?
So if it's an F middle, it'll fill the F
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in the left hand whether it's a middle or
root position or backwards.
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Now in this piece,
let's try one of these progressions.
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Auld Lang Sang.
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So, look at the chord progression.
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C [SOUND] to A minor,
[SOUND] D minor, [SOUND] G,
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[SOUND] C, [SOUND] C7, [SOUND] F [SOUND].
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Now you can see in root position,
that jumps about quite a bit.
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C [SOUND] up to A minor [SOUND] down
to D minor [SOUND] up to G [SOUND] down
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to C [SOUND].
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Okay?
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But, if you use the inversions,
it becomes a lot easier because it's C,
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[SOUND] to A minor backwards.
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So A minor would be that.
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[MUSIC].
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Put those chords down below.
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[MUSIC]
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Small finger on the A to
make it a backward inversion
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[MUSIC].
Into D minor [SOUND], and then G middle.
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So, reposition G would be jumping up
there, but if you're on D minor and
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you want a G middle.
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[SOUND] There's the G middle,
that's the G root.
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Find the next two notes.
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That's D minor to G middle, C and C7.
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And then if you were jumping up to F,
that would be quite a jump, so
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you go from C seven to F middle.
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Okay, so try that.
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[MUSIC]
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G middle.
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[MUSIC]
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On the next page, this split chord
tune makes great use of inversions.
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We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
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If this song was using
root position chords,
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you'd be jumping all over the place.
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You'd be going from C up
to F down to D up to G.
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But because you're using inversions,
you can keep everything close together.
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So C to F middle.
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[SOUND] See, that's not much of a jump.
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D, G middle E, [SOUND].
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A minor middle, [SOUND] F,
[SOUND] G, [SOUND] C, [SOUND].
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Okay?
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And you're using a split
chord type of rhythm,
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and you're starting on the third and
the fifth.
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So the C is split up.
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[SOUND] Then you're doing F middle,
so F [SOUND].
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Middle finger on the F, [SOUND].
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Find the other two notes.
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[SOUND] And then a D chord.
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[SOUND] And G middle.
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[MUSIC]
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An E chord.
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A minor middle.
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And F, just straightforward F.
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[MUSIC]
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G, C.
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[MUSIC]