How to Play Piano by Ear Using Difficult Chords

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Shoshana Cook, I'm with Expert Village. Occasionally you will run across more difficult chords to understand what you are suppose to play. Here for example it says E minor slash F. So does that mean that you play a E minor chord or do you play a F chord? When you see something like this just concentrate on the 1st half of it. The E minor part. So here you have E minor and here you have D minor, you just want to focus on the first half. So all that means is you play a E minor chord. You are going to have on the left hand on the very very bottom somewhere in the very bottom, you are going to have a F. So I'm going to play a E minor chord but I'm going to put a F on the bottom. So if I play it all together it will sound like or you can simply play this F instead of E we had a E minor you can simply play the F instead. Either way it is correct. "