Music Theory - Drop Voicings 

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Yep, definitely heard that too

Fuh Shurrrre! LoL! I did not hear any sound! LoL!

what? arent u supposed to learn this in ur school?

Funny how handy RU-vid videos have become an essential tool to get people through college courses. Just because someone is a college professor, doesn’t make them a good teacher

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More interested in his day than your seemingly frustrated one.

Well said dos gos!

Hi Steve, I believe you are commenting on the wrong video because this is about drop voicings. Haha! I understand that you are probably talking about the Herrmann video? The only way to show how these piece work together is to demonstrate the separate parts. To program them would take much longer and I actually work as a music producer for a living. I really appreciate that you realize that my discussion is extemporaneous. I just play what I hear. That is also the idea that i am trying to get over to the viewer. Listen and play. I am trying to figure out what some good libraries to buy are and I also don't have the best setup since my control room is used everyday to produce bands and solo artists. I hope to grow my channel in the next few months so that I can devote more time to my videos. I need to put an updated computer rig in my control room dedicated to my videos so that I can access the latest sounds and libraries. Thanks for your thoughtful comment.

yep, I copped that too. devil is in the details :)

If Rick is doing another composer I'd vote for Bernard Herrmann or Stravinsky I must know what they're doing

I will do videos of all those composers

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Not all inversions are drop voicings. You can have an inversion as long as the note in the bass is not the root of the chord. However, drop voicings are specifically open voiced chords, with the octave displacement of the notes you choose. Inversions can be open or closed

Nope, Rick explains at 7:20 that you can voice each inversion of the chord as a drop voicing.

I’d like some clarification on this too

Could be because of Tartini tones. An interval of a 5th can create the illusion of an note being played an octave down from the 1st. Sounds crazy, I know, but check it out. Some sax players sing a 5th tp the note they're playing to get this effect. That wouldn't work on 2nd invertion ie GCE, but it might on broken chords i.e. CGE.

F0nkyNinja the clip for drop 3 was right before he explained what it is

The 'dropped' notes are always being taken down by an octave. So G being the 2nd highest tone and a 5th above the root (C), dropping it by an octave puts it a perfect 4th below the root, essentially making it the new root note. As far as how the notes are typically distributed on a keyboard, I'd imagine the left hand becomes particularly necessary when dealing with drop 2 + 4 voicings which essentially takes the lowest (root) note and the 2 tone down an octave, increasing the spread between the root + 5th, and the rest. However, it seems to me that once the inversion and drop voicing is figured out, you're free to spread the notes however you feel sounds best...

Moksha That's what I want to know.

Moksha It doesn't have to. Any note in the chord can be the bass it just depends on where you are in the progression.

That’s a 2nd inversion triad. If you voice a triad with the third in the bass, in this case g, you’ll get 1st inversion. If you do the same, but instead voice the 5th in the bass, B, you’ll get 2nd inversion. Hope this helps.