Members Yer Blues Posted May 14, 2013 Members Share Posted May 14, 2013 I understand they are pronounced D over F#, A over C#, and G over G#... but what is the terminology? For example, adding a 4th you get a sus4, adding a 2nd you get a sus2, adding a 9th you get an add9. I've been listening to a ton of Eric Gales lately and noticed he moves the bass notes around a lot on chords... like the jam with Shawn Lane is Am, F, G, G/G#. Now I realize I know a ton of songs with those type of chords, but I don't know what the terminology is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mav64 Posted May 14, 2013 Members Share Posted May 14, 2013 I knew that once but can't remember. I just call them Slash chords... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yer Blues Posted May 14, 2013 Author Members Share Posted May 14, 2013 They are indeed slash chords.... Don't know why I tried to make things more complicated than they are. From wiki: In popular music 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".[1] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stormin1155 Posted May 14, 2013 Members Share Posted May 14, 2013 D/F# would be F# over D. The letter after the slash refers to the bass note played with that chord. I play in a praise/worship group, and the chord charts we use have lots of them. We just refer to them as F# over D or C# over A.... Some would be nearly impossible to play on guitar, so I suspect they are also intended for keyboard and bass players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yer Blues Posted May 14, 2013 Author Members Share Posted May 14, 2013 stormin1155 wrote: D/F# would be F# over D. The letter after the slash refers to the bass note played with that chord. I play in a praise/worship group, and the chord charts we use have lots of them. We just refer to them as F# over D or C# over A.... Some would be nearly impossible to play on guitar, so I suspect they are also intended for keyboard and bass players. That makes sense to me, but this site says otherwise...D/F# - (pronounced "D over F#") http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa031401h.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 stormin1155 wrote: . . . I play in a praise/worship group, and the chord charts we use have lots of them. . . . Some would be nearly impossible to play on guitar, so I suspect they are also intended for keyboard and bass players. Praise/worship music--at least the stuff our praise band does--has lots of crazy stuff in it. Our bass player normally plays the note after the slash but some stuff is just plain screwy. Once there was a G7/F, which put the 7th in the bass. He played a G and it sounded fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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