Am/G guitar chord
- Tap a note to hear it
- Arrows change position
- Fingers, notes or intervals
- Play the chord
About Am/G
Am/G gives the bass its own instruction: keep the upper chord, but make the lowest note. The slash separates those two jobs.
G is not in the upper triad; it completes a minor seventh chord with its flat seventh lowest. Hold the upper chord steady and move only the bass. That low line can connect nearby chords without jumping root to root.
Also written Am over G or Am with G in the bass.
How to use Am/G
In which keys. Every note of Am/G belongs to C major (the vi), D minor (the v), E minor (the iv), F major (the iii), G major (the ii) and A minor (the i).
What to play over Am/G
Useful scales
- +D
Contains Am/G and adds eleventh.
- +DEb
Contains Am/G and adds eleventh and sharp eleventh.
- +BDF
Contains Am/G and adds ninth, eleventh and flat thirteenth.
- +BDF#
Contains Am/G and adds ninth, eleventh and thirteenth.
- +BbDF
Contains Am/G and adds flat ninth, eleventh and flat thirteenth.
Chords near Am/G
Remove a note
open strings open strings
Change one note
3rd inversion
The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.