Thanx to some lovely people on these boards i now have developed my knowledge in minor and major chords but all this seventh and / malarky are all still confusing to me.
So can someone please tell me what keys do i have to play for these chords:-
C/E (i dont know if thats a chord or just a c or an e, but thats what it said)

Dm7

Dm7/G

F(9) (i can't even guess this one, lol)

THANX A BUNCH IF U HAVE ANSWERED WHAT THEY ARE.

i think C/E would be the chord of C with an E in the bass, i.e C chord in 1st inversion

if i'm not wrong.

C/E means both Cmajor and Emajor chord can be played with the melody.

If there's a seventh, eg Dm7, it means that you play a note seven notes above the root of the chord, in this case D

So the chord would be D-F-A-C (C is the 7th)

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C/E would be the chord of C with an E in the bass

This is the right explanation.
F9 has the 9th note above the F added (usually the 7th too).

F9 has the seventh while Fadd9 doesn't.

Yes, when a chord has a / in it, the letter after the slash shows the note you should play in the bass. It depends what style you are doing, but you often see this notation in song music. When I play and sing I keep the piano playing fairly simple so I can concentrate on the singing.

For the piano part I play chords with the right hand and bass with the left. So if was playing C/E I would do a C chord in the right hand - any inversion it doesn't matter, and an E with the left hand - or a couple of E's an octave apart to make it sound fuller. Or for Dm7/G the right hand plays Dm7 chord and the left hand plays a G. The melody is in the singing part. I like this style of playing as a break from sight reading, and it is good practise for improvisation...trying different ways of moving from one chord to the next, or trying different rhythms.

One more thing...you may also see C/E written as C on E

thanx alot Ben and all the others