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D/F#

A lovely chord to place between a G and an Emin. Very common chord indeed. Better Man by Pearl Jam uses this chord a lot, so does Wish You Were Here...

The bass note usually played with the thumb grabbing over the neck, but if you struggle with this (i couldn't do it for years!!) then re-finger the chord - use your first finger on the bass note and use fingers 2/3/4 on the rest of the chord. Some people use a small mini barre on the D Chord if they use the thumb on the bass, which I don't think is a great idea but it's not going to cause any problems that I can think of!

If you want to play the A string (5th) that is fine too - I usually think it sounds better to mute it (most commonly with my thumb when it plays the bass note). A is a note in the chord of D anyways, so it certainly won't sound bad... I just hear it making it sound a little too full, a little messy.

G/B

Both these chords have the same name but slightly different characters, up to you which one you use really. This is used more for joining C and Amin than on it's own.

C/G

This version of C is proper old school, I love the sound of the bass note and ofeten replace a regular C chord with this, just cos it sounds great - but you have to let YOUR ears be the judge, not mine ;)

Well grab your spandex - time to rock BC-192 • Power Chord Shifts and Palm Mutes

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