Are they same thing? Or, can one be the other? A friend of mine asked me today if a C chord has to have the root as the bass note. I've never thought of chords as having this restriction, even though I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to theory. A lot of times, when I play a chord, it's actually the 5th or 3rd that's the lowest note and the root is the highest. Like, for example, if I were playing an A Major on the highest three strings.
Quote:
|---5
|---5
|---6
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|----
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Is this what is meant by
Inverted Chord; or is doing this a slash chord?
Also, do inversions still have to go in order? Like, if the lowest note is the 3rd, does the next highest have to be the 5th, then the root? Like: (3, 5, 1) or (5, 1, 3)? Or can be be out of order, such as: (1, 5, 3)?