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Drop 3 chords are created by dropping the third note from the top (not the bottom) of a closed chord. So a 1357 chord would become 3157 and that's the new configuration. So here is the root position F major 7, and here is the first inversion with A on the bottom of the chord.
What is a drop 3 chord?
Drop 3 chords are seventh chords that occur through displacing the second and third chord tone (relative to a close position chord) in root position and in each inversion up an octave.
What are Drop 2 and drop 3 chords?
The “drop” moniker comes from the way in which these voicings are generated. To create a drop 2 voicing, take a Cmaj7 chord that is stacked in thirds and “drop” the second note from the top down an octave. Dropping the third note from the third-stacked Cmaj7 creates a drop 3 voicing.
What is a drop 2 voicing?
Drop 2 chord voicings are formed by taking a chord and then dropping the next to the highest note, or voice, to the lowest note of the chord. ... Drop 2 is just a name for how the chords were derived from another chord.
