Module 4 — Triads, Inversions, and Voice Leading

This module is where harmony starts to feel good under your hands.

So far, we have mostly treated chords as stacks:

• C = C–E–G
• Am = A–C–E
• F = F–A–C
• G = G–B–D

That is useful for understanding chord construction, but if you play every chord in root position, accompaniment often sounds clunky.

The key idea now is:

A chord can keep the same identity even when you rearrange the order of its notes.

That gives us inversions.

And once we use inversions to minimize unnecessary movement, we get voice leading.