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Chords like C/F

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Sten

Nov 18, 2001
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#1
I found a nice acoustic song on www.mysongbook.com and was just thinking to try to create a bassline over it[I also added the file, which can be opened with a file called Guitar Pro if any of you should have it; the bassline in it is my pathetic attempt at supporting that tune, so you can mute it ;)]. The thing is, it has some weird chords in it. Well, I'm sure they are actually very common, just that I haven't had a change to familiarize myself with written music yet(If anyone knows a place on the 'net, where I could find easier tunes to practice reading bass clef - that is welcome too).

I got puzzled by this
C/F written on top of a bar. The guitar chord there is xx3010 - so FGCE. I imagine the root for the bassline should be C, but why is that F written there?

There's also a Bm/-5 chord(x20431) which puzzles me even more. -5?

The song is in Cmaj according to the composer. Also the chord progression (1 per bar) goes like this: C G Am F C/F Dm Bm/5- Dm F G Dm Bm/5- C C Am C if that means anything on how to handle these chords. Also, if you have anything else to point out regarding the progression, please do so.

I probably should add that there's another guitar doing melody over this all, but it's a bit too complicated for me to take apart theory-wise I'm afraid.
 
#4
It stands for flat 5. If there's a slash, it's written incorrectly.

Get yourself a theory book that covers chord symbols. You're going to need it.
 
#6
Originally posted by Turock
The key of C has no flats or sharps, the notes are: C, D, E, F, G, A, B. The chords in the key of C are: C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bm-5.
-5 means that the 5th is lowered 1/2 step (the F note in the Bm-5; you would not expect to find F# in the key of C).
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Only there's no reference to key. If I see Bm(most likely 7)-5, I'm thinking it's a ii chord in the key of Am.
 
#7
Originally posted by Pacman
Only there's no reference to key. If I see Bm(most likely 7)-5, I'm thinking it's a ii chord in the key of Am.
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Perhaps you didn't see a key reference, I saw one quite clearly:
The song is in Cmaj according to the composer. Also the chord progression (1 per bar) goes like this: C G Am F C/F Dm Bm/5- Dm F G Dm Bm/5- C C Am C if that means anything on how to handle these chords. Also, if you have anything else to point out regarding the progression, please do so.
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#12
By the way, noticing you pointed out it could be Bm7-5 instead I doublechecked the tune. It was indeed written Bm/-5 there. Also the chord was x20431 which isn't a 7 chord from what I can tell, so I think the slash just got lost in there.

As for the progression, it may be odd but it doesn't sound too odd ;)
 

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