In episode 45 of the guitar music theory podcast we have another installment of how does this song work

featuring House of the Rising Sun by the Animals Greetings guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna. Today we're going to talk music theory

and song composition. We're going to take a look at the chords used in

House of the Rising Sun. The chords don't all fit into one key, so I'm going to

talk about what's happening there. I'm also going to answer some good email questions that I received.

But before we get started, don't forget to go to my website

guitar music theory.com, answer the questions I ask you about your playing and I'll send you

free custom video instruction calibrated to your current level go to guitar

music theory dot com you can click on the link in the show notes. All right, so we are going to start with some questions. I receive a lot of questions and you're

welcome to send any questions you have my way. My email address is Desi at guitar music theory.com.

Desi is spelled D-E-S-I.

So whenever I get any good questions,

I drop them into a document, and at times like these I can answer them. I also will

reply to your email. I always reply to all of the emails I receive. But here I'm

going to share some of these questions with the rest of you, because you might find them interesting.

So this first one is what is a slash cord?

Yeah, what does that mean when you have something slash something else, like C slash G or D slash F sharp?

Well, it's pretty simple. A slash, you know, like a forward slash or backward slash it's actually what is that is it a

forwards it's a forward slash when you type it out a slash is just indicates

that something other than the root of the

chord is in the root position so for example when you play a C chord well it's

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