CKQC021: Teaching chord inversions with hedgehogs and games

Chord inversions are one of those stumbling blocks that gradually, and then very forcefully, starts to get in the way for intermediate students.

I’ve made it my mission to nip this in the bud this year. It’s been working so well for my students, and I’m hoping I can help you with this issue too.

You can see my three strategies for teaching chord inversions here, and you can see them in action in this week’s quick clip.

These two students have been repeating these exercises, with increasing difficulty, each week. They’re getting pretty good at finding chord inversions on the keyboard using the hedgehogs and ‘Inversion Diversions’ game (from the Vibrant Music Teaching library) and soon we’ll be moving on to working on inversions on the staff.

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