This lesson revisits the triad arpeggios, showing several inversions (inversions are just arpeggios or chords started from a different note). Each triad has 3 notes, so that means we can start the triad from any of these 3 notes. When we start from the first note, there is no inversion going on (we call it the root arpeggio). Starting from the 2nd note gives us the first inversion, and starting from the 3rd note gives us the 2nd inversion. In this lesson we will play inversions for the Major and Minor triad across 5 strings.

Now we are going to play the second inversion of the D Major triad. The second inversion starts from the 3rd note of the triad. The 3rd note in the D Major triad is A. So we simply start from that note. We reposition ourselves at the 12th fret and then add the 1st note, then the second, etc. By doing so we end up with the somewhat awkward shape shown below.

This is a rather awkward arpeggio shape, because you have to do some barreing across the A and D string, and the B and E string.

The thing to watch out for here is the barreing across the A and D strings and the B and E strings. It is easy for notes to bleed into one another when barreing, or even worse, for notes to not sound. So take this one really slow til you have no trouble with the barred notes.