Slash Chords
The following examples make use of another important keyboard technique: i.e., playing a chord with the right hand over a bass note which is different to the notes contained within the chord. In the following example, the symbol G/E occurs. This indicates a G chord played over an E bass note. This is called a slash chord.
Slash chords can create many different harmonic effects. Each combination has a specific name and often creates an entirely new chord. Basically you can play any chord over any bass note as long as it sounds good. Experiment with playing all the chords you have learned over various bass notes from the C major scale.
In this example the chords are played as arpeggios.
Class Sessions
1- Basic Chords, Rhythms and Sounds
2- Alternating Octaves
3- Blues Scales in E
4- The Blues Scale
5- The Minor Pentatonic Scale
6- Minor Keys
7- Using Ties
8- How to Transpose
9- Chord Construction
10- Scale Tone Chords
11- More New Chords
12- Turnaround Progressions
13- Combining Major and Minor Chords
14- Minor Chords
15- New Chords and Keys, Transposing, Pentatonic and Blues Scale Riffs
16- Using Keyboard Voices
17- INTRODUCTION
18- The Major Chord
19- Creating a Part
20- The 12 Bar Blues
21- Chord Inversions
22- Eighth Note Rhythms
23- A Major Scale
24- The C Major Chord
25- New Chords in the Key of G
26- Slash Chords
27- Intervals
28- Riffs
29- D Minor Chord Inversions
30- C Major Chord Inversions
31- The Chromatic Scale
32- A Minor Chord Inversions
33- E Minor Chord Inversions
34- D Major Chord Inversions
35- Chord Diagrams
36- G Major Chord Inversions
37- B Diminished Chord Inversions
38- Interval Names
39- B Minor Chord Inversions
40- The G Major Chord
41- F Major Chord Inversions
42- F<span class="symbolA">#</span> Diminished Chord Inversions
43- The F Major Chord