Triads & Inversions

This lesson is part of the Fundamentals of Twelve-Tone Equal Temperament category.

Objectives

• Students will be able to write a major, minor, augmented and diminished triads using a given note as root, third, or fifth.
• Students will be able to identify the inversion of a given triad.
• Students will be able to write a given triad in any inversion.
• Students will understand figured bass or slash-chord notation for all inversions.

Class Activities

• Deriving triads in major and minor keys or modes.
• Writing a given type of triad using a given note as root, third, or fifth
• Writing a triad in different inversions
• Identifying a triad in different inversions using both figured bass and slash-chord notation

Assignments

• Writing triads in different inversions
• Identifying triads for root and inversion