same chord apparently sounds different

[neil groves]

How can you have the same chord playable at 3 different places on the neck and each one sounds different but it’s the SAME chord apparently?

Neil.

[Deluxe Strat]

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[ChordGuy]

Neil

The inversion, or the way the notes are stacked changes the sound a bit.

Root inversion is 1, 3, 5 (or closed voicing)
First inversion is 3, 5, 1
Second inversion 5, 1, 3

then we have drop voicings that are more common on guitar

Drop 2 inversion 3, 1, 5 (reffers to which voice is dropped to the root of the chord)
Drop 3 5, 3, 1

“Voice Leading” is often concidered when chosing a voicing but in many cases this is difficult on Guitar. Keyboard players learn this skill early in thier training.

Gordon

[Deluxe Strat]

@ChordGuy wrote:

Neil

The inversion, or the way the notes are stacked changes the sound a bit.

Root inversion is 1, 3, 5 (or closed voicing)
First inversion is 3, 5, 1
Second inversion 5, 1, 3

then we have drop voicings that are more common on guitar

Drop 2 inversion 3, 1, 5 (reffers to which voice is dropped to the root of the chord)
Drop 3 5, 3, 1

“Voice Leading” is often concidered when chosing a voicing but in many cases this is difficult on Guitar. Keyboard players learn this skill early in thier training.

Gordon

so Gordon in the inversions does that just mean the order the notes are played? sorry i know nothing about theory 🙂

[ChordGuy]

Yes, from lowest pitch to highest. For eg. an E chord played in the open or nut position has the intervals
1, 5, 1, 3, 5, 1 of root, fifth, root, third, fifth, root. The second and third E’s (roots) could be refered to as octaves as well.

Gordon

[Rickey]

Hendrix played the E chord in 3 different styles in “Hey Joe” – open E, in the C shape and in the A shape. He also played the C chord 3 ways in that song – open, E shape Barre at the 8th fret, and A shape 3rd fret.
Practice that CAGED chord system.

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