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What Are Slash Chords?
Let’s pretend that you’ve got an audition coming up in a couple of days for a hip new band looking for a guitar player. The band gives you some sheet music with the band’s songs on it so you can get a little practice in before the big day. The time comes for practice and…
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Easy Guitar Songs: Use 9 Chords To Play 50 Songs
There are literally thousands of chords you could learn how to play on guitar. You could spend years learning them all! On the other hand, what if you just want to play a few easy guitar songs? Do you really need to know all those chords? Absolutely not. In fact, most songs only use three…
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Slash Chords For Open E: E/F#, E/G#, E/A, E/B, E/C#, E/D#
Here’s how to play 6 slash chords based around the open E chord. Fig. 1: E Major Scale Fig. 2: E/F# Fig. 3: E/G# Fig. 4: E/A Fig. 5: E/B Fig. 6: E/C# Fig. 7: E/D#
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Slash Chords For Open G: G/A, G/B, G/C, G/D, G/E, G/F#
Remember: A slash chord or slashed chord, also compound chord, is a chord whose bass note or inversion is indicated by the addition of a slash and the letter of the bass after the root note letter. It does not indicate “or”. In this lesson we’ll learn the slash chords for open G. We’ll change the root note to each of the scale steps of the G major scale to…
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How To Spice Things Up When Strumming Open C
Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4
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E6
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The D/F# Connector Chord In Action
Use the D/F# chord as a bridge between the open G and Em chords:
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How To Play Suspended Guitar Chords
What Are Suspended Guitar Chords? A suspended chord is a chord that creates a subtle harmonic tension by adding an extra note that sounds like it wants to resolve back to the original chord. You can hear their use in most types of music. Usually, this extra note replaces the 3rd. As an example, an Esus…
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E/A
Here’s how to play an E/A chord.
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Variations of The C Chord
Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4: Just Another C Chord Fig. 5: C Suspended 2nd (C sus2) Fig. 6: C Major 7th A major seventh chord refers to where the “seventh” note is a major seventh above the root (a fifth above the third note). This is more precisely known as the major/major seventh chord, and it can be written as maj7,…