Of course, an inversion is an inversion whether played on guitar, piano, vibes
of glass harmonica. If you play C,E,G,Bb with the C in the bass, it's C7 in
the root position, with E in the bass it;s first inversion no matter what
instrument it is.
>>>Andrew Everard Stapleton said:
> IMHO it would be quite usefull musically to be able to be able to work out
> and know the inversions of chords up a fret board.
What I do is when I'm at my day job and stuck in a boring meeting is I doodle
in my notebook by drawing a fretboard, picking a chord and marking ALL the
notes on the fretboard that belong to that chord, then pick out patterns and
playable configurations. Of course since I'm a bass player I can only handle 4
strings at a time and am thinking more in terms of using the notes for walking
lines than playing chords, but it does pay off when I get back to my
instrument and start playing again.
--berry
Berry Kercheval :: kerch@parc.xerox.com :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center