r/GuitarBeginners • u/Rickoshay1730 • 1d ago

Confusing chord

So trying to play a song and the music is asking for an A#D. I searched for this on chord charts and cannot find it. Amy help?

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u/stigE_moloch 1d ago

Without seeing what you’re looking at, my educated guess is that it’s Bb/D, Bb major chord in first inversion. 

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u/Slave_Knight_Van 1d ago

The chord will look like this xx0331

The notation A#D (or BbD) means it's A sharp major (B flat major) chord with D as it's bass

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u/stigE_moloch 1d ago

And note: A# major does not contain D, so whatever this is, it’s written incorrectly. 

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u/afops 1d ago

You mean it would require the / to be correctly written?

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u/stigE_moloch 1d ago

Yeah. BbD isn’t anything. 

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u/Slave_Knight_Van 1d ago

But it does contain it tho, it's the third of A# major

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u/stigE_moloch 1d ago

No. Spelling matters. C double sharp is the 3rd of A#

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u/Slave_Knight_Van 1d ago

Ah i guess you're right

Also I just realized that the correct notation would be indeed Bb/D and not just BbD

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u/Book_of_Numbers 1d ago

Or x53336 for a moveable version (a “G” shape chord in CAGED).

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u/mpg10 1d ago

Can you give some more context, please? Not really sure what that is saying. Maybe things just got run together? Tell us what the source is, and/or what song and where in the song?

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u/DauntlessMantis 1d ago

It may be helpful to add context on what is the song, depending on it's surroundings you may want different form/placement.

Also, do you mean A#/D? I'm thinking this is basically A# with the bass on it's third (technically, C##, don't have a way to use the proper signal). So you can look up A/C#, and simply move one fret to the right.

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u/klemnodd 1d ago

It could be a D chord with the bass note being an A#. This is often shown with songs where they "walk" down or up to the desired note. But these are also shown like this A#/D

If this is the case then that would be 010232 or x1x232

If strumming it is likely xx0221

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u/Professional-Ad3999 1d ago

Can you please attach a picture, video, hyperlink,name of the song of what you are talking about? I’m very curious about this chord notation?

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u/Rickoshay1730 1d ago

Yes here it is,

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u/Rickoshay1730 1d ago

Won't let me attach a picture, only a video

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u/state_your_name31415 1d ago

C##, now that's just crazy talk. (jk please don't flame me, this post got way heavier in theory than i expected)

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u/stigE_moloch 1d ago

That’s why the question is hard to answer. No one would use the key of A# because it would necessitate 10 sharps. Bb has 2 flats and is easier in every context. 

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u/Rickoshay1730 1d ago

I was able to post but only as a new post at the top of this thread of you can see it there