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What Are Inversions

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What are harmonic inversions? If you’re not using them, you run the risk of writing very boring progressions and pieces.

But they don’t have to be a scary confusing thing.

In this episode, I try to unpack them just a little bit and make them just a little more useful and less intimidating.

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