Playing Slash Chords

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Hello once again! I recently had a discussion with a colleague about the importance of being a solid rhythm guitarist. Chord vocabulary, among other things, is big part of developing as a rhythm guitarist so I thought this would be a great opportunity to discuss slash chords. A slash chord is any regular chord with something other than the root note as ...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: So the first step is to take our basic open chords (C, A, G, E, D) and move the 3rd to the bass. The expectation is that once you've seen how to move the 3rd to the bass you can then move the 5th to the bass on your own. Once we've moved the 3rd we then have the following chords: C/E, A/C#, G/B, E/G#, D/F# Always keep in mind that the first note in the a...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: So I thought I'd go ahead and give you guys another shape I use quite often when composing fusion tunes. You could say that these chords are Major 9no7 chords with the 9th in the bass. So basically a major triad with the 9th (2nd) in the bass. For example: G/A, D/E, F#/G# These chords can sometimes come off as sus2 chords and it's a very good idea to appr...

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