voicing

[barbietta]

Could someone please explain what is meant by "voicing"? Thanks!

[cyberfret]

Think of a chord voicing as a chord shape on the guitar. For instance if you take a power chord shape and move it up and down the neck to different frets. You have the same voicing, but a different root. Voicing is a universal music term and does not just apply to guitar. The term comes from thinking of every note in a chord as a "voice" and a voicing is the relationship of each individual voice to one another.

--Shawn

[barbietta]

Got it. Thanks!!!

[acidXrock]

IN unstrument and vocal music voicing goes with the Saprono, Alto, Tenor, and Bass lines. And those voises go alone to different instruments. For example the bass could be played in a tuba or bass and ect, so on and so forth. If you take a score of music you can arrange it to be just a two staff pice of music, condencing all of the instruments into these four voices, and vice versa. When you have a triad or a chord you have the root,3,5 and sometimes the 7 if its a seven chord. When someother note is the LOSEST sounding note you get what is called a chord inversion. (Going off what the administarter said). There are many chord inversion. For a triad you have root pocistion, first inversion(6), and second inversion(6/4). For example lets take a C major triad. IN root posistionit it CEG. IN first inversion it is EGC and in second inversion it is GCE. The saem is for 7 chords. Exept root posisiton is 7. First inversion is 6/5, Second inversion is 4/3, and third inversion is 4/2. It can go into much mroe detail but this might help you with more understanding with voisings and chords.