Slash Chords- What Are They and How To Use Them

Slash Chords - What Are They and How To Use Them. In this video only Major Triads Over Bass Notes are addressed.

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[NahreSol]

I love this video. I learned so much, and will be revisiting this a lot since slash chords are still new to me. There's also something about the flow/editing that is very pleasantly matter-of-fact and I love it...

[mybiggrin]

You did it again! Thank you! Not enough people are liking this video! They do not appreciate that you are doing this out of the goodness of your heart!

[bohnulus]

Rick, You spelled this out like a "logical let's make-sense machine!!!" (nice ) love your clarity and how to mentally think about and handle these chords and treat the scales that go with Thank you for being on the planet brother.... I'm adopting your whole

[imantisocial]

man, i totally thought this was going to be a lesson about slash's common chord types.

[TheRoiderien]

Thanks, Rick--nicely done. I often think of slash chords by keeping the bass note constant and then moving the triads up.

[ElectromagneDikk]

And yet another wonderfully informative video. Every video you put out teaches me something. Thank you so much for your efforts, they do not go unappreciated

[truefilm]

Thank you, again, for going really deep. I'm doing this every day (transcribing, arranging, composing, playing, sequencing, teaching, the whole shebang - which is a 'must' for musicians today) but it's always fantastic having complete information to fill-in the gaps (IMHO even the best don't know everything) - never enough. I feel like I'm always "midway" regarding my humble skills. There seems to be no such thing as complete knowledge about music, but that doesn't keep us from learning every day. Best music teaching channel on YouTube - hands down!

[rana_cloud]

Woah :O
You're such a great teacher! Thank you so much sir. Actually, I'm study at İstanbul University State Conservatory, and this week we were learning this subject. But this subject was very diffucult for me. And now I'm ready to teaching it to others :D
Hey from TURKEY! And thank you again for your absolutely work :) :)

[markjohnson]

Great lesson!! I was just going over this last night and you filled in the blanks for me thank you!!👏👏👏👏

[cassios.]

Thanks a lot, Mr. Beato, and I'm glad to see you and Nelson Faria together next thursday. Lord bless you.

[freecitizen]

The half-whole scale that Rick calls "Diminished Dominant scale", we called the "Symmetrical Dominant scale".
The formula is 1-b9-#9-3-b5-#5-6-b7; so it's a Dominant scale due to the 3-b7 that also contains the two altered 9ths and the two altered 5ths.
It will work over Dominant chords with either b9 or #9 as well as b5 or #5.

[vinniecutro]

Great analysis of slash chords and application of scales on slash chords

[RobertDannyDavis]

I have learned a lot when it comes to modernism and I thank you. Mostly in the area of modes that are not normally used in most tonal music. I was really looking to break free of my many years of using traditional harmonic functions, which had suddenly just started to seem like "not enough" to my ears anymore. So thanks! BTW this is the wrong topic to ask this on as I am not even thinking of slash chords, but I think one gets more replies while replying to the latest video. In the section of modes, I don't think you have the Harmonic Major in there anywhere and its modes. I was just transcribing March of The Slave Children From John Williams(as an exercise to get out of my traditional tonal ways, finding music that does not fit into older harmony methods) and realized that it fit none of the modes described so far. So I literally googled (major scale flat six) as I was guessing that it had been built on some mode from that and I found it is called the Harmonic Major, which I honestly did not know existed(most of my music experience is from about Wagner backwards so I love your page). The piece starts with the 4th mode of that basis and the reference chart calls it Mixolydian flat 9. Anyway maybe you can also cover this in your theory sections:) Thanks again for your page. Been following almost since you started explaining interesting modes and concepts!

[stevenvlogsnc]

Oh boy...I thought this would be a bit easier than this explanation. I may have to watch this again. Thanks for the detailed description of how to read the chords!

[steveb.]

I remember first learn this kind of thing with couple specific chord voicings and was called the "Magic Chord". We took a voicing and figured out what the chord name would be changing the bass note to each note of chromatic scale. Bottom line learned all chords have multiple names depending on how you use them

[DawRoStudio]

you are such an amazing teacher! thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. much love!

[povilasl]

thank you very much this made my day, finally found the best video on slash chords

[danielsperry]

Great video Rick, as a big Steely Dan Fan { MU } i use these chords a lot I did learn how to use scales over these and i thank you for that .

[EShinMusic]

I also like to use Root/maj 2nd chords as m11 chords using minor or dorian scales to improv over them. Another use for those chords! Nice content Rick, much appreciated!

[souviksen]

I can hear frogs and crickets in the background. 😁