Yep! In it over my head! :)

[galestermusic]

Thanks Steve. I have a list of things that I want to accumulate. Speakers are at the top. I had to take a break, my frustration level is running high.

[SteveB]

Greg, when I suggested having a large, soft object close-by to pummel-the-crap out of, I was only half joking.

Remember, you've got a program that's around 20gbs all-in, and a 1900+ page manual, you're in for the long haul now.

Resign yourself to working slowly and methodically, these Forums aren't going anywhere soon, they'll still be here in time to come. Enjoy, and good luck. 

[galestermusic]

Thanks Steve.

[galestermusic]

But the really great thing is after all these years I used music theory to teach my self triad chords on the keyboards.

The next thing to learn is inversions. With basic triads in the root position (root note on the bottom), you have to jump around a lot on the keyboard to play chord progressions. With inversions, you can play the same chords without having to move your hand a great distance.

For example, you can move from a C major triad in the root position to an F major triad in the 2nd inversion without moving your hand position at all. You only need to change your fingering. The C chord is played with the thumb, first, and third fingers, while the F chord (2nd inversion) is played with the thumb, second, and fourth fingers. Likewise, you can move to a G major triad, 2nd inversion by moving your hand position by only two semitones. To move from a C to a G in the root position would mean moving your hand position by seven semitones. This can be hard to do quickly and smoothly. So you can see how inversions really simplify your chord changes.

64G in all my immersion of my new found obsession lol and one of my scattered brained sessions I happened on to inversions by realizing that when playing one triad that I could use the next octave  root note along with the 3rd and 5th. I know very little about theory just thought it was neat that I ran into this.

Just reread your post I think I might be getting it wrong.

[64Guitars]

64G in all my immersion of my new found obsession lol and one of my scattered brained sessions I happened on to inversions by realizing that when playing one triad that I could use the next octave  root note along with the 3rd and 5th. I know very little about theory just thought it was neat that I ran into this.

Just reread your post I think I might be getting it wrong.

You haven't got it wrong. When you move the root note to the top, as you described, that's the first inversion. When the root note is in the middle, it's the second inversion.

[Tootler]

64G in all my immersion of my new found obsession lol and one of my scattered brained sessions I happened on to inversions by realizing that when playing one triad that I could use the next octave  root note along with the 3rd and 5th. I know very little about theory just thought it was neat that I ran into this.

Just reread your post I think I might be getting it wrong.

You haven't got it wrong. When you move the root note to the top, as you described, that's the first inversion. When the root note is in the middle, it's the second inversion.

When I did a music theory course some years ago, we were taught that it's the note in the Bass that defines the inversion.

So if you play a C chord E G C as you say, that's a first inversion but then so is playing it E C G - taking the G up an octave as well. In both cases, the third (E) is in the bass.

Similarly a second inversion puts the fifth in the bass, usually played G C E but you could also play it G E C and it would still be a second inversion.