Ep93 Using Slash Chords on Guitar

Guitar Music Theory

Desi Serna

Musictheoryforguitar, Guitar, Guitarscales, Performing Arts, Guitarmusictheory, Music, Guitarlessons, Arts, Guitarchords, Guitartheory

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🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this free guitar lesson, I explain what slash chords are in music, why composers use them, and when you might choose to skip them while reading a chart. Slash chords do not refer to the guitarist known as Slash of Guns N’ Roses fame. The term slash refers to the use of a forward slash in a chord name such as G/B, C/G, or D/F#. Whenever a chord name includes a forward slash, the letter before the slash is the basic chord and the letter after the slash is the alternate bass note. Normally, when you play a G chord, you have a G note in the lowest or bass position. The chord G/B is a G chord but with a B note in the bass position. This means you would begin strumming on B and leave the G note below it (as well as the 6th string) out. You would call any version of a G chord with B in the bass “G with B in the bass” or “G over B” or “G/B.”

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0:00.0	In episode 93 of the guitar music theory podcast.
0:14.0	I am your host
0:25.1	Desi Cerna and today I'm going to explain what slash chords are in music. I'm going to talk about
0:32.4	why composers use them and when you might choose to
0:35.9	skip them while reading a chord chart. And true to my style, I'm going to give you some examples
0:42.2	played in the style of familiar songs.
0:45.0	Now perhaps this is just the sort of thing you need to be learning right now
0:50.0	or maybe your playing needs attention in other areas.
0:54.0	If you need help determining what you should specifically be working on
0:57.8	in order to play guitar better,
1:00.1	go to my website guitar music theory.com answer the questions I ask you about your playing
1:05.7	and I'll send you free custom video instruction calibrated to your current level.
1:10.8	I'll put you on the right track so you can move forward with your playing and reach
1:15.0	your music goals. Go to guitar music theory.com to enroll in your free video
1:19.7	course now you can click on the link in the podcast show notes. All right, so let's dive in. So we're going to talk about slash chords. This is going to be pretty basic initially.
1:44.0	So if you're a more experienced player,
1:47.0	you can still tune in because a little bit later I will talk about some things
1:50.0	that might be relevant to you and the stage that you're at like when I talk
1:54.6	about when and when you shouldn't play some slash chords.
1:58.8	So just bear with me here.
2:01.2	I've got some good examples for you too and so there's something for everyone to take from this lesson.
2:06.8	So we're going to talk about slash chords and the first thing I need to say is that I am not referring
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