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Hola, people. How' re you doing.[br]Justin here.

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In this little lesson today

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we're going to be having a chat [br]about slash chords.

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Now, I'm sure many of you [br]have seen things like D/F#

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and wondered what it meant,

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may be it was two chords at the same time.

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Well, luckily for you,[br]I'm here to explain it to you,

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and it's really, really simple.

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All slash chords are,

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are indicating a different[br]base note for the chord

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and a lot of the times, you don't even have to [br]worry about playing that base note

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because the bass player will be playing it.

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So, if you see, say, the chord D/F#

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all it's meaning is it's a D chord,[br]"slash", with an F# base note.

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That's all it is.

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Chord, "/", base note.

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Now, sometimes, [br]this can be incredibly easy.

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If we took, say, a regular Em chord

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♪

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Now, if it was Em/B,

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all you'd have to do

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is play it with starting[br]from the 5th string,

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♪

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and just leave off that thickest string,[br]which was the note E.

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Because now the lowest note, [br]the bass note of the chord,

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is the note B.

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.♪

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Now, that's the principle of it

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and it's really, really, really that simple.

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Of course, in order to be able [br]to find your own slash chords,

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you need to know what the notes are

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at least on the thickest two strings,

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because that's usually [br]where you'd put that base note

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is on one of those two strings, so

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making...

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an essential skill really[br]for all of you guys

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would be knowing the notes [br]on the bottom two strings,

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because you need that[br]for your power chords,

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your barre chords, your scales[br]and everything. So,

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make sure you get that down

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and you can kind of make up [br]your slash chords yourself.

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Just pick any chord and then[br]try and figure out

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what it sounds like[br]with a different base note.

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You might go: "Well, here's a D chord."

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"I wonder what it sounds like [br]if I put a C base note on it."

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"Where's the C? OK, there's a C there [br]on the 5th string there."

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So, if I move my third finger[br]over to play that

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and put my little finger[br]back where it was before:

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♪

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Pretty funky sounding chord:

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♪

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Not a very common one, probably,

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but it's a slash chord,[br]and you can really do

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any chord with any base note.

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A lot of more complex jazz stuff

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has some pretty outrageous slash chords in it [br]that sound pretty dissonant.

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You get your D#/C, or[br]whatever it sounds a bit, here

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♪

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Things like that, you know.

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They sound pretty outside, you know,

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But... And they're not really that common.

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For a beginner guitar player,

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which I'm guessing you are[br]if you're not so sure what slash chords are,

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or maybe you're a great guitar player

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and you just never discovered [br]slash chords before,

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there are a few really common ones

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which I wanna go through with you now and,

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I'll explain it in a bit of a[br]close-up for you, I think.

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So, let's go CLOSE.[br]Let's get closer!

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Regular D chord,

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and one of the most common[br]slash chords is D/F#

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Now, hopefully some of you know already,

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but that note there is the note F#.

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So, if we've got a D chord

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And we want to put a F# base on it,

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there's a couple of ways of doing it.

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First of all, you could[br]wrap your thumb around

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♪

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Now, you can play that 5th string there if you want.

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♪

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I usually let the thumb mute that string.

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I think it sounds a bit sweeter,

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but that's really your call.

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But the getting the thumb over [br]can be quite a hard technique,

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and a much more common way of[br]playing that chord

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is like this:

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with first finger on the F#.

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That also mutes the fourth...[br]

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This string is muted [br]by the underneath of the first finger.

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The D string is open.

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Second finger on the 2nd fret

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And third finger on the 3rd fret.

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♪

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And that thinnest string is also muted.

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♪

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This is a really common way of playing it.

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Now, one of the most common movements[br]is to go from G:

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♪

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to D with an F# base:

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♪

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to Em:

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♪

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and back again maybe to D with an F# base.

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♪

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G

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D with an F# base.

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You can see that coming from the G

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the third finger is staying where it is,

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second finger is going down,

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first finger is going over to the base:

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♪

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and then to Em,

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The first finger comes back over,

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second finger goes up,

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and third finger comes off:

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♪

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Sometimes it sounds nice [br]to leave that one there as well:

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♪

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Then you get an Em7.

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But that's a really common...

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♪

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Really common song...[br]or movement in songs, I should say.

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So that's your D with an F# base.

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Either like that...

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You can play it like that as well.

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It's not an uncommon way to play it,

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you could play it just with your 1st finger[br]reaching over, (♪)

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or like that (♪).

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It doesn't really matter[br]what fingers you use, to be honest,

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you'd use different fingers[br]in different circumstances.

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That's a D/F#, really common one.

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Now, another common one is G with a B base.

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So there's a regular G chord:

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and this note here with your first finger,[br]that's the note B.

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So, if you're using the tip of your[br]1st finger there to mute the 6th string,

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You've now got a G with a B base.

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Now, that's a good way of playing[br]it if it's by itself,

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but usually, it's found[br]in between the chords

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G (♪)

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Sorry!

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C (♪)

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G/B (♪)

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and Am (♪).

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So, if you're going to do it that way,

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it's a lot easier to finger it:

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This is C chord,

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now, second finger moves over to the B,

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third finger comes off[br]and little finger goes down on the note D

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♪

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making sure that the 6th string is muted.

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The tip of that second finger is pressing up there[br]to mute the 6th string.

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Little finger is also muting the first string.

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♪

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Although, it doesn't hurt really, to...

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♪

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If you want to have that open E string open,[br]it often sounds nice,

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but it's not officially part of the chord,

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and then you can see your[br]hand's already kind of in position (♪)

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for the Am (♪).

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And then back to G/B, [br]second finger steps over,

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other two fingers lift off,[br]little finger goes down.

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♪

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There's your G/B (♪)

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C (♪)

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G/B (♪)

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Am (♪)

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G/B (♪)

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♪

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Can make a nice little song out there

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C (♪)

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G/B (♪)

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Am (♪)

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Now, here's a common one as well:

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♪

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Am with a G base.

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♪

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So, just reaching over[br]with the little finger there

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to hit the note G.

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So, that would be an Am/G.

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Not that hard, really. Is it?

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Or, instead of that, you might go:

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♪

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G/B (♪)

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Am (♪)

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Then you might go G (♪)

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D/F# (♪)

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Em (♪)

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Often follows vocals.

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♪

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It's used in "Wonderwall" and

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and "Miss American Pie"

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There's hundreds of songs [br]that use these kind of movements.

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♪

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Now, another really nice little one

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that you might experiment with is A chord.

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Now, maybe a lot of you've learned A chord[br]like this, or like this,

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or whatever.

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If you're going to do slash chords, [br]generally you play A with a little barre.

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♪

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Making sure the thinnest string again, [br]that one up there, is muted

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with the underneath of your first finger.

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♪

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So you're pressing down just three strings.

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Now, a really nice common one[br]is to reach over with that third finger

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♪

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I'm playing A with a C# base.

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♪

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It's just a really nice sound

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♪

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D (♪)

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A/C# (♪)

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E.[br]That's a common movement.

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♪

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There's lots and lots of songs[br]that use these things.

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So, that's A with a C# base,

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but we could have, say,[br]A chord with a G base:

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♪

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See? It's just really...

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It's an A chord[br]and you can put on whatever bass you want,

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you could put an F# base.

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Play the A with your third finger:

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♪

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Do that, that would be an A/F#[br](♪)

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Also called F#min7, but you could call it [br]A/F#, so it'd be cool.

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You could put an F base on it.

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♪

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Pretty wacky sounding chord, but it still works.

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You can really...[br]You can go mad with these things.

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Another really common one

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-- I'm just trying to get you[br]as many common ones as I can here --

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This is C chord

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♪

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C with a G base, C/G.

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There's your G note.

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So, you just move that finger from the C

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pluck it on the old G there.

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Now the 5th string is muted.

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♪

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C with a G base. C/G.

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Really common in country.

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♪

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C

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C/G

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You kind of do that for[br]another reason, but it still...

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That's what it is.

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C. C/G.

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You can really go mad with them.

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So, I hope after that [br]you are not scared of seeing slash chords anymore.

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It does take a little while to get used[br]to learning all of the different shapes.

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Because there's so many[br]variations possible,

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There are kind of a lot[br]of slash chords to learn,

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but what I'd recommend is

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having a little bit of an[br]experiment yourself and

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seeing, you know, what chord[br]you can put what base note with

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And see if you can come up [br]with some funky chords, you know.

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Especially if you're a song writer, [br]and you can really get...

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It's a nice way of kind of [br]getting a bit creative with a simple idea.

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So, I hope you enjoyed that.

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So, I hope you're all good,

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take of yourselves,

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See you later from sunny London.

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Later, bye!