But sometimes he plays a D/F# (pronounced D over F#) instead of a D chord, which puts an F# in the bass (the low, 6th string), which walks down nicely from the G to the Em chord.

Briefly, a major or minor chord with the 3rd shifted to the bottom (such as D/F#) is a first inversion. Move the 5th to the bottom (D/A, for example) and we have a second inversion.

Shimmering clean-tone chords don’t have to have open strings, but as you’ll see, it helps. You can have a wider range of notes without tying your fingers in knots and the open notes always sustain so ...

This is an F#m11 chord, but in this instance, the low F# note is not played, it is rooted in a C# note. This chord is arpeggiated through the intro. The m11 is quite a complex chord voicing, when ...