I posted the my guess at the chords to Sam Ryder's Space Man in the Eurovision thread
and it's chock full of slash chords (not the Gnr fella) - which I guess means it was written on piano / synth?
Verse - E then B followed by an Eb / G to G# minor
on the last go round F# down to an E and then that well worn trick move (IV to IVm) to Em before landing on the B major tonic
Chorus is E to B / Eb to C# minor
which then goes to a B major before doing that run up of F# to Eb/G to G#minor
and then a quick B to C#..
ending with some sort of F major to the B major tonic
When covering such stuff do you as guitar players have confidence in letting the bass player emphasise the bass notes of such chords or do you end up playing the full slash chords on guitar.
I tend to do the latter but I'm coming round to the idea of trusting the bass player to get the idea across - and have found in the heat of battle full slash chords can just get you buried in the mix with the lower registers.
(we do Cher's Turn Back Time and in the pre-chorus - there's an E / G# and a F# / Bb - I really would be better off just playing E and F# power chords there)....
...she's got Dickie Davies eyes...
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
The bassists I play with are all very good, so I don't worry about them playing wrong notes or notes that don't support the harmonic content of the chords, if that doesn't sound too pretentious... But, yeah, I probably play the slash chords anyway, in most cases.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Off topic, but this reminded me of the (possibly) opposite concept of "pedalling the bass". My GCSE music teacher back in the 90s (who had played sax in the spiders from Mars gig film) taught us that term / concept, but in later life with other musicians I've found they've not always known what I mean when I say it - not sure how common the term is in use?
If you're playing by yourself, then play the slash chords, because you will be adding the bass line to the song and it will sound better and more faithful to the original composition/arrangement.