Easy Slash Chords (Guitar Lesson BC-191) Guitar for beginners Stage 9
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0:03 - 0:05Hi! How are you doing? Justin here.
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0:05 - 0:08In this lesson today,
we're gonna be checking out slash chords. -
0:08 - 0:11Now, slash chords have nothing to do with
Slash from Guns 'n' Roses -
0:11 - 0:12before you get a little excited
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0:12 - 0:14and think we're gonna learn Sweet Child O'Mine.
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0:15 - 0:17Slash chords also,
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0:17 - 0:20sometimes confused as being
two chords at the same time. -
0:20 - 0:23You often see stuff like D/F#.
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0:23 - 0:27It's amazing how many guitar players
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0:27 - 0:28"Oh, I can't play it, it's two chords at once,
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0:28 - 0:30I don't know how to do that."
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0:30 - 0:33But it's actually really, really, really, simple.
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0:33 - 0:37All it is, is a chord, "/" and then a base note.
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0:37 - 0:40So if you see D/F#,
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0:40 - 0:44it means a D chord with an F# note in the bass.
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0:45 - 0:46It's actually pretty simple.
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0:46 - 0:48And the coolest thing about it is,
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0:48 - 0:49if you ever see a slash chord,
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0:49 - 0:51and you don't know the whole slash chord,
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0:51 - 0:54or you've never played it before,
you can't work it out immediately, -
0:54 - 0:56just play the chord, the first part.
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0:56 - 1:00Ignore the slash and what's after the slash
'cause if you're playing in a band, -
1:00 - 1:03probably the bass player
is gonna be playing that bass note anyway. -
1:03 - 1:05So you don't really have to do it.
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1:05 - 1:07On guitar it kinda sounds interesting sometimes
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1:07 - 1:09to be using a different bass note,
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1:09 - 1:12so that's why they exist on their purpose.
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1:12 - 1:16Now, what I'm going to take you through is three of the most common slash chords.
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1:16 - 1:18We're gonna do a nice little close-up now,
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1:18 - 1:20and I'll run through, not just the chords, but
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1:20 - 1:22how they're most often used.
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1:24 - 1:26Here we go, here's the first chord
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1:26 - 1:27that I'm going to show you,
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1:27 - 1:29which is a D with an F# bass.
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1:29 - 1:30Sounds like this:
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1:30 - 1:33♪
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1:33 - 1:34and I know what you're thinking,
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1:34 - 1:36you're thinking: "Oh, It's just like a regular D". But...
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1:36 - 1:40actually, my thumb is playing this note here:
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1:40 - 1:41this F#. (Plays)
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1:42 - 1:44Now, for many of you doing the thumb-over technique,
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1:44 - 1:45it's gonna be a little bit difficult.
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1:45 - 1:47So, I'm gonna show you some alternatives,
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1:47 - 1:50but this is my personal preference
most of the time, -
1:50 - 1:51from playing D with an F# bass,
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1:51 - 1:54is to use my thumb on that bass note.
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1:54 - 1:56Now, the other alternatives...
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1:56 - 1:58If you think, there's your regular D chord.
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1:58 - 2:00If you move your thumb over to play the bass note,
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2:00 - 2:03and move each finger around,
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2:03 - 2:06so you still got a regular sounding D,
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2:06 - 2:08and you move your 1st finger over.
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2:09 - 2:13That's another pretty decent way of playing
a D with an F# bass. -
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2:14 - 2:18The only problem with this one is
it's a bit difficult to use in context. -
2:18 - 2:21Now, the context is usually G,
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2:21 - 2:22♪
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2:22 - 2:23D with an F# bass,
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2:23 - 2:24♪
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2:24 - 2:25Em.
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2:25 - 2:26♪
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2:26 - 2:27'Cause that way you get this.
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2:27 - 2:41♪
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2:41 - 2:43So you can see, there is where we're using big G.
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2:43 - 2:45♪
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2:45 - 2:48Now we got that 3rd finger anchored,
thumb comes over. -
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2:48 - 2:50And even, you can leave that
3rd finger down -
2:50 - 2:52and play the Em7 if you wanna be really clever.
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2:52 - 2:54♪
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2:54 - 2:56But here's another way of doing it,
which is very common. -
2:56 - 2:58So, playing G,
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2:58 - 3:00♪
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3:00 - 3:01D with an F#, so
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3:01 - 3:04first finger, muted the A string,
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3:04 - 3:07Open, 2nd finger, 3rd finger.
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3:07 - 3:09Now, very often,
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3:09 - 3:11the open E rings out as well.
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3:11 - 3:13Now, it shouldn't 'cause that really makes it
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3:13 - 3:17kind of a Dadd9 chord over F#,
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3:17 - 3:19or something complicated like that.
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3:19 - 3:20It doesn't really matter.
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3:20 - 3:22It's just a D over F#,
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3:22 - 3:23you accidentally hit the open string
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3:23 - 3:25and it sounds cool.
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3:25 - 3:31♪
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3:31 - 3:34So, the only other way, sometimes,
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3:35 - 3:36it's played like that.
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3:36 - 3:38Now, I don't tend to play it that way a whole lot,
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3:38 - 3:41but you can use: 2nd finger, muted the A string,
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3:41 - 3:45open string, 3rd finger, 4th finger
and the open E string, -
3:45 - 3:47or mute the E string,
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3:47 - 3:48with the outside of your little finger.
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3:48 - 3:50You can choose with that one.
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3:50 - 3:52So, it's a very common chord there
to go between G, -
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3:53 - 3:55D with an F# bass,
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3:55 - 3:56♪
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3:56 - 3:57and Em.
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3:57 - 4:02♪
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4:02 - 4:03OK, the next one I'm gonna show you,
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4:03 - 4:06is this chord here, this is G with a B bass.
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4:06 - 4:09Now, this one normally goes between Am and C.
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4:09 - 4:15So if we have C, G with a B bass, Am.
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4:15 - 4:18♪
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4:18 - 4:19You can hear you get:
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4:19 - 4:28♪
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4:28 - 4:31And again, there's a few options
for playing this one. -
4:31 - 4:34You can think of it like... there's a regular G.
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4:34 - 4:36If we just don't play that thickest string,
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4:36 - 4:37♪
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4:37 - 4:39we've got there a G with a B bass.
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4:39 - 4:40But as we know already,
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4:40 - 4:42there's a few different ways of playing G.
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4:42 - 4:46And the two methods I prefer, either:
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4:46 - 4:532nd finger on the 2nd fret of the 5th string,
little finger on the 3rd fret of the 2nd string, -
4:53 - 4:54♪
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4:54 - 4:56and then the thinnest string is muted.
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4:56 - 4:58Sometimes, (plays)
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4:58 - 5:00I let the open E string ring out on this one as well,
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5:00 - 5:00which you shouldn't,
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5:00 - 5:02it's not part of the chord, but it sounds nice.
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5:02 - 5:04And remember, if it sounds good, it is good.
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5:04 - 5:07Little finger also can move down
onto the thinnest string. -
5:07 - 5:08♪
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5:08 - 5:11That's also a nice G with a B bass.
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5:11 - 5:15♪
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5:15 - 5:17And leave it there for the Am until we get an Am7.
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5:17 - 5:27♪
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5:27 - 5:29Very cool little sequence.
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5:29 - 5:32So, there's your couple of variations for
G with a B bass. -
5:32 - 5:34Now, the last one I wanna show you,
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5:34 - 5:36this is a bit old-school. (Plays)
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5:36 - 5:37And this is a C chord,
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5:37 - 5:39but we're adding a G in the bass.
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5:39 - 5:41So all we're doing is moving our 3rd finger over,
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5:41 - 5:43and whacking our little finger down.
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5:43 - 5:44♪
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5:44 - 5:47And there we have a C/G.
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5:47 - 5:49♪
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5:49 - 5:52I like this one 'cause it got a really fat, warm sound.
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5:52 - 5:54In fact, you can often substitute this one.
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5:54 - 5:56It just says C, you can play this chord instead.
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5:56 - 5:59Really sounds pretty cool I reckon, so
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5:59 - 6:02Regular C, move that over, little finger goes down,
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6:02 - 6:04there's your C/G.
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6:05 - 6:07Now the important thing to remember
with slash chords -
6:07 - 6:09is you can kind of just make them up.
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6:09 - 6:11You can have any chord with any bass note.
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6:11 - 6:14So, just some examples that
I can give you really quickly: -
6:14 - 6:16here's an Am chord:
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6:16 - 6:17♪
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6:17 - 6:19If we put down our little finger here,
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6:19 - 6:20♪
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6:20 - 6:23we could have Am/C,
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6:23 - 6:26Am with a C bass 'cause that note there is C.
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6:26 - 6:29Or (plays) Am with a G bass.
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6:29 - 6:31♪
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6:31 - 6:32Because that there note (plays)
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6:32 - 6:36That there, that there'd be G, that note there.
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6:36 - 6:38And then we could have, say, Am with an F# bass,
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6:38 - 6:40so we just have to refinger the Am,
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6:40 - 6:41so let's do a regular Am, but then
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6:41 - 6:43♪
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6:43 - 6:46we'd have there, an Am with an F# bass,
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6:46 - 6:49also known as F#m7b5,
if you wanna impress your friends. -
6:49 - 6:50♪
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6:50 - 6:52And, back to Am.
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6:52 - 6:53You can really have anything at all.
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6:53 - 6:57You can have an A chord with a C# bass.
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6:57 - 7:00You can have an A chord with a D bass,
if you wanna really stretch yourself. -
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7:02 - 7:04You can make up anything.
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7:04 - 7:06And that's the cool thing with these slash chords.
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7:06 - 7:09You can literally make up any one, and people do,
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7:09 - 7:11and that's how they get
pretty cool sounding chords. -
7:11 - 7:13Comes from piano players
'cause they separate their hands. -
7:13 - 7:15They have one hand playing bass,
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7:15 - 7:16and one hand playing chords.
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7:16 - 7:19So it's very easy for them
to swap the bass note around. -
7:19 - 7:20It's a little bit harder for us to do,
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7:20 - 7:22but it sounds really effective.
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7:22 - 7:24So, have fun with these slash chords,
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7:24 - 7:25give them a little bit of practice,
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7:25 - 7:27practice combining them as well,
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7:27 - 7:30doing the G, D with an F# bass, to Em,
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7:30 - 7:33and the C, G with a B bass, to Am.
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7:33 - 7:35That's definitively one of the key things to practice,
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7:35 - 7:37linking those other two chords.
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7:37 - 7:39There are some exercise on the website,
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7:39 - 7:41go check'em out, have fun,
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7:41 - 7:44and I'll see you for an another lesson very soon.
- Title:
- Easy Slash Chords (Guitar Lesson BC-191) Guitar for beginners Stage 9
- Description:
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Justin's Completely Free, Beginners Guitar Course Lesson BC-191.
This is Stage 9, Lesson 1.This video explains how to play basic open position slash chords. And what they are and how might use them...
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- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- JustinGuitar (legacy)
- Project:
- Beginners Course (BC)
- Duration:
- 07:47
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