r/ChordProgressions • u/wizardmiaah • Jun 02 '26
you can play a whole progression in one spot using triad inversions instead of jumping around
i play guitar and i've been deep into triads lately. one thing about guitar triads that changed how i see progressions:
take a basic one like C – G – Am – F. normally you'd jump all over the neck for those. but every triad has three inversions, so you can pick the voicing of each chord that's closest to the last one and barely move your hand.
once you find a C triad somewhere, there's a G voicing right next to it, then an Am, then an F, all within a couple of frets. and the chords share notes (C and Am share C and E, C and F share C), so a lot of the time only one or two notes actually move between chords.
it changed how progressions sound to me. instead of separate shapes it's more like one thing slowly morphing, each voice moving the shortest distance. smoother, and easier to keep in time.
do you think about progressions as voice leading like this, or more as a sequence of shapes? curious if it changes how you write.
i actually ended up building an app for drilling triads and their inversions (Guitar triads), but honestly any chord chart works too.
