Most of the chords we deal with as guitarists are in root position. This means the first note of the chord is the root note. For example we have look at a C major chord starting from the root note of C giving us the voicing

C E G

There are three types of common chord inversions and they are called first inversion, second inversion and third inversion. Chord inversions are really great for adding interest and for mixing things up. If you play any jazz music you will know that there are many times where you would not want to have the root as the bass note.

There is really nothing complicated about chord inversions. The notes of the C major chord can be played in a different order. For the first inversion we start off with the E in the bass giving us the following chord

E G C

Although it starts with an E in the bass it still contains all the notes of a C major chord and can therefore be seen as a C major chord with an E as the bass note.

First inversion E G C

Second inversion G C E

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