chord inversion vs voice leading

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platinumstatusbeats

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from my knowledge or what i think i know

voice leading would be like say cmajor(CEG) C G E the root always stay the same JUST OTHER NOTES ARE SPACED DIFFERENT

and i know a chord inversion would be CEG GEC ECG

JUST WANNA MAKE SURE IM RIGHT
 
inversion: right

voice leading: wrong

voice leading requires two different chords or at least two inversions to be defined

I can take the chord C and play an Am next by doing any of the following

1G -> E
E -> C
C -> A
voiceLeading-01.png

voiceLeading-02.png
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/voiceLeading-01.mp3[/mp3]
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/voiceLeading-02.mp3[/mp3]
2G -> A
E -> E
C -> C
voiceLeading-03.png
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/voiceLeading-03.mp3[/mp3]
3G -> C
E -> A
C -> E
voiceLeading-04.png
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/voiceLeading-04.mp3[/mp3]
4G -> A
E -> C
C -> E
voiceLeading-05.png
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/voiceLeading-05.mp3[/mp3]

of the 4, the 2nd is the most smooth and obvious voice leading: it uses the 1st inversion Am chord to facilitate the voice leading.

If I had wanted to end up on an A in the bass, then I might have used 2nd inversion C chord like so

E -> E
C -> C
G -> A
voiceLeading-06.png
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/voiceLeading-06.mp3[/mp3]
C -> C
E -> E
G -> A
voiceLeading-07.png
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/voiceLeading-07.mp3[/mp3]

I.E. in addition to voicing the chord by inversion I could change the voicing from close position to open position
 
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