

The Beatles were real masters of using slash chords. I will illustrate each approach with an example from a Beatles song. In this article I will lay out a few ways to simply start reading and playing slash chords and why you might want to bother! This is great thing, since it means we can play along with our favourite tunes sooner, developing other skills such as changing between the basic chord shapes, strumming, rhythm etc. ‘Slash chords’ such as D/F# are one example, where one can mostly get away with completely ignoring the letter after the slash and songs will mostly sound ok. It makes sense to put some topics or techniques to one side to avoid being overwhelmed.

When learning to play guitar, or music in general, there is a seemingly limitless amount of material to cover. Learning about slash chords from The Beatles
