Quick Links This Day in Music History Music Education @ DataDragon.com Music Education Forums Maintain Your Forum Information Bernadette Peters - Broadway's Best Sudoku (take a break for a puzzle!) Topic: A/B G/E??? From the Music Questions forum. Post a reply or begin a new topic. View other threads or jump to a different forum. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web datadragon.com Author Topic:   A/B G/E??? noolnool Registered User Registered: 8/29/2003 posted: 12/7/2003 at 6:30:45 AM ET Hi In my book about music theory are some music examples, the chords are above the staff. Most of it I can follow but every now and then i see a chord like A/B. Does this mean A chord with bassnote B?? This seems strange to me because there is no B in the major A chord. I have looked through the book but I cant find an explaination anywhere. Regards Nool Taciturn Registered User Registered: 8/3/2003 posted: 12/8/2003 at 11:31:49 PM ET Well, I'm not sure about what A/B means as a chord symbol, but you can have a chord with an A and a B. It would be a 7th chord, meaning a chord with 4 notes, instead of just 3 (which would be a triad). This 7th chord's root note would be B. When you stack in 3rds, you get B, D, F, A, and those are your 4 notes of the chord. There's your B and A. I hope that helps somehow! If not, my bad :-/ trumpet guru Registered User From: Washington State Registered: 8/22/2003 posted: 12/13/2003 at 2:29:06 AM ET Indeed an A/B is an A chord over a B bass. Here is a very cool site which shows you how to play about any chord you will ever see (guitar and piano). http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/ GOOOOOOROOOOOO noolnool Registered User Registered: 8/29/2003 posted: 12/13/2003 at 5:00:54 AM ET Thanks for your help guys!! Do you think this topic is inappropriate? Vote it down. After a thread receives a certain amount of negative votes it will be automatically locked. Please contact us with any concerns you might have.

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