What kind of melodic inversion is this?

1. What is a melodic inversion?
2. What are the types of inversions in music?
3. How do you identify chord inversions?

What is a melodic inversion?

To invert a melody means to change its ascending intervals to descending ones and vice versa; for example: becomes. In inverted counterpoint, the original order of the contrapuntal lines is rearranged. In this way a line sounds above the line that it originally sounded beneath; for example, becomes.

What are the types of inversions in music?

So, there will be four inversions: root position, 1st inversion, 2nd inversion and 3rd inversion.

How do you identify chord inversions?

A more reliable approach is to start listening out for which note is at the top (or the bottom) of the chord. For example, if you can hear that the root of the chord is on top, you know it is the first inversion of the chord. If it is the third of the chord on top, it is the second inversion, and so on.