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D/F#, C/E, F/C
What are those chords above? How do you play them?

These are called the slash chords.
The front part are the chords, the part behind the slash is the bass note.

As chords are made up of 3 notes and above, you just have to make sure the most bass note is the note behind the slash.

There are basically 2 different types of slash chords.

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You have heard many times that music is a multi-cultural language. Isn't that true? Many singers and musicians are famous people just because they bring forth music that touches the souls of people. Music had become so much of the lives of a person. Just as the devil want to use it to draw people way from God, as Christian, we want to use music to draw people nearer to God.

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Diatonic Chords

What are diatonic chords? Well, in simple terms, it is the chords that are usually play within a key. Let's look at the chords that belong to the diatonic of C key. So when you know the diatonic chords, it will also help you to figure out the chords of any particular song, it should fit in most of the time.

How do we derive the diatonic chords use in each major key? You will need "chords construction theory" knowledge to understand the below, read it from the guitar/music theory page. Let's us use C major Key as an example. You use 1, 3, 5 for the first set, then 2, 4, 6 for the second, and so on...

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What are barre chords?

They are just chords we use our index finger to fret a few string, thus transposing the key of the chord played.

For e.g. Bm = 224432

You cannot possibly play all the 6 strings with 1 finger pressing each string. Cause you have only 5 finger. So Instead we use the index finger to press the whole 6 string on the 2nd fret. Then the other finger on each respective strings and fret. This is a barre chord.

There are basically 5 different types of barre chords, E-type, A-type, G-type, C-type and D-type. It’s call that way because it is derive from the normal open chords. Some people call this the C-A-G-E-D system chords.