Help with chords??

Question

I dont understand what the slash betwwen 2 chords means; for example:

E/G... F/A or whatever

Help??

=D

Thanks

Answer 1

Go to this site, it's very good for guitarist, as for chords, you name the chord and they show you how to make it.....there's tons of information on this site, even a free electronic tuner. As for theory, you may want to google a site or buy a book explaining chord formation !!!!!!!!  Google this; how chords are formed, maybe this will help you to understand, good luck, and I hope that this helped !!!!!!!! Here's the site, click on the guitar.

http://www.8notes.com/

Answer 2

What this means is -- play the chord indicated to the left of the slash with the bass note indicated to the right of the slash.  So F/A means -- play an F chord with A (open 5th string) as the lowest note (bass note).

A chord marked A/C# would mean play an A major chord with a C# note (4th fret on the 5th string) as the bass note.  In this case you would have to change how you usually finger the A chord in order to add that bass note into the chord.

An Em/G would mean play an E minor chord with a G (3rd fret on 6th string) as the bass note.  Again, you'd have to add that low G into the chord by changing the fingering of the chord.