acoustic tunes

I've always like Billie Joe Shaver's "I'm Going to Live Forever", but I can't get the pattern figured out.  C'est la vie.  Something to work towards in time I suppose.

- Zurf

One I am trying to remember that i already do with the use of the lyrics is " Caledonia" the dougie McLean song all about my wonderful country, the best country in the whole world!!!

I got asked to do this a few times the other week when i was playing in the pub but i never had the lyrics with me. I am always forgetting the words to the second part in the second verse as well as the second part in the first.
I have done it so many times I would have thought i would know it off by heart.

Having the lyrics in front really is a bad comfort zone sometimes.

Ken

Good Morning,

That is a good question, as you probably know I am not a teacher or great at explaining theory. Russell, Jerome and Southpaw41 are experts on theory.

Back to the question, I call chords like C/G  slash chords and I think of them as a chord with a G note added or a bass note of G added to a C chord. That is not the way the chord chart shows it though.

This explains it better than I can.

Slash chord
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In popular music a slash chord or slashed 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". (Rooksby 2004, p. 20)

For example, a C major chord (C) in second inversion is written C/G, which reads "C slash G". If B was the bass it would be written C/B (making a major seventh chord in third inversion), which is read "C slash B". Some chords may not otherwise be notated, such as Ab/A (Latarski 1991, p. 25). Thus, a slash chord may also indicate the chord form or shape and an additional bass note.

In popular music, where the particular arrangement of notes is less important than some other forms, slash chords are generally used only when the specific bass note is important. A common example in guitar based music is in the I-V-VIm progression. By placing the third of the V chord in the bass, a descending scale is created in the bass. For example, in the key of G major this would be the chords G, D/F#, Em. That progression has the descending bassline G, F#, E. This type of slash chord contains diatonically occurring notes. In traditional notation it would be written using figured bass symbols.

I believe the chord chart you were talking of on Slow Rolling Low  may be wrong or maybe one of our experts can help up out and explain why it is posted 032010 and called a C/G   I would play it 332010

Great Question

that makes more sense to me.  The explanation that you posted was what I was thinking except that I knew the open 6th string was an E!  LOL!  I laugh, cuz I really don't know what notes I'm playing when I play a chord (yet... although I can guess as I know a bit about music from my sight singing years) but I do know what the open strings are (thank GOD there's only 6!)  So yeah, if anyone can chime in and let us know if that chord chart is wrong or if there's something that's missing in the explanation that'd be great!  Might have to ask this somewhere else tho as it's off topic here. 

But... while we're on it... so when you play a "slash chord" do you always pluck out that bass note?  You wouldn't actually strum the whole thing as a chord right (cuz then it would actually be a different chord?)???  I'm assuming a "slash chord" will always mean pluck this different bass note (denoted after the slash) then strum the chord (before the slash).  Or is this something that's also left up to one's interpretation?

I'm excited to hear your Bojangles!  I'll look forward to seeing it in my subscriptions!!

This is my latest work in progress... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e8bw3Bd … re=related almost got it but not quite yet
This one also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1JBm-BF … annel_page same story close but not quite yet...

That's cool Badeye! Man her index finger has to be tired by the end of the night http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqg3kcwAgso Just thought it looked kinda odd the way she picks the bass note with the thumb and then flicks the index out for the following strum. Seems like it would be easier with a pick but I guess she is playing a classical....

Since you brought up Melanie (I loved her music) here is another of hers that is easy and fun to play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsYux3ZpblQ

Here is a silly song Casey and I are working up.
Casey's guitar playing is not yet up to holding down chords during the tuba solo, so I guess we will have to sing la la's over that part or paste the tuba solo in later in our vid.
toots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkBO_OlII0

Well thanks!
After this post was made in this thread I have forced myself to sing nothing but Caledonia and within 24 hours I have got it. I have memorized the song. It does help that I have been playing it for a few years wit hlyrics and chords in front. Like I said it is a comfort zone thing, tonight I will do it without paper in front.
I might even record a version for you tube. ( but not tonight)

Ken

Boss song! Love it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9A9TvZS … p;index=14  Gonna add that one to the list. Sounds like a crowd pleaser. Thanks! -Pix

Wow, He's got lots of really cool stuff!!! Check out the use of the violin at 0:45 in this vid of "Where The Boats Comes From" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViL_xFWP … re=related

lol not at all. Ye can even change the lyrics to suit, I dont mind,

I also found "you do something to me" quite hard to play and sing if I remember right.

Ken