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Note: for the fully diminished chord above – this one can be seen as an F fully diminished seventh chord omitting the third OR a B diminished triad in second inversion. The chord spelling depends on the context of the song, but either way you’ll get a diminished sound when playing this shape. 7. Shape Your Tone Properly. I hate sounding like a broken record… but in your quest to play chords AND avoid muddy sound, you need to shape your tone accordingly.

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Memorise those shapes inside out and then practise them over the following chord changes. Watch the video for a demo of this. There’s two types of ways to play bass chords. The first way I’m going to show you implies chords, and that’s with Double Stops. While a double stop is not theoretically a chord, it’s used so much that we cannot ignore it. The second way I’ll show you is how to expand on double stops to make them into bass chords. This is super important and will help you get acquainted where all your major and minor chord shapes are on your fretboard. So if your guitarist say ‘we’re playing the chord of C Major’... a C Major arpeggio is a great place to start creating your bass line.You may have heard of or used ‘Arpeggios, Chord Tones and Triads’ as part of your bass lines. The definition of an arpeggio is a ‘Broken Chord’.

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The deepest note of a chord sets the feel of a chord. Using the root note of the chord as its deepest note is common and makes for a stable and harmonious sound. Now, let’s break this down into simple steps, so that you can can start playing some bass chords! Step 1: Decide a scale that you want to harmonize and map out all the notes on your fretboard Natural notes (C, D, E, F, G, A, B) can all be played on a bass guitar. From each note, a scale can be derived. (Have you ever had to sing Do, Re, Me? This is a type of scale!) Since this is a very important technique that is related to chordal playing on the bass, I’ve included it in this guide. So, for example, G is the 9th of F major. So I can think of a Gsus chord as being an inverted Fmaj9 chord with the 9th becoming the root. F major 9th arpeggio on G sus chordTwo note chords are easier to play than three note chords. So, double stops are a great place to start if you’re a beginner.

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Strictly speaking, a pentatonic scale is any scale that is comprised of 5 notes. However, when most people talk about the pentatonic scale they are referring to either one of two scales: the pentatonic minor scale, or the pentatonic major scale. If you're playing on a G7 chord, the notes of that chord (the 3rds of the G mixolydian scale G-A- B-C- D-E- F) Because you’re just learning how to play chords on the bass, we will keep things simple and learn how to build chords from a C Major scale. My next video is going to be on chord progressions. That's when the real magic happens. When you can combine all manner of voicings with chord movements, you have music. Be sure to sign up to the newsletter (below) to get that lesson and all subsequent ones straight to your inbox (as well as a very useful free ebook).It is without a doubt that James Brown’s 1965 masterpiece is one of the most enduring tunes in the world. Many companies use it as a jingle or as an element in their advertisements. Organizations love the tune and many films have included portions of the song into their musical score. On top of that, “I Got You” happens to be the 78th greatest song ever to grace mankind. This is according to Rolling Stone Magazine. One of the most common shapes bass players use to imply chords, is to play double stops using 10th intervals. You’ll find that open voicing double stops sound good on the bass and don’t muddy sound.

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Not everyone who loves music today knows Bob Marley. But any aspiring musician knows the impact of Bob Marley’s works on the continuing evolution of contemporary music. He always infuses a sense of spirituality into each of his songs. This guy also put Jamaican music on the world map. Thus, exploring what type of patterns you can come up with based on the notes of the chords in the chart is a great practice exercise. This will develop your understanding of the fretboard, improve your ability to compose, and most importantly allows you to get creative.

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Learning the bassline of this song is a breeze. There’s no need for the complicated tuning of your bass guitar. Also, the tonal patterns are almost similar throughout the song. The key here is to break the song into four sections. This will make it a lot easier to master the basslines for each section. As always, I advise going slow. It will help you gain confidence in playing the song. There are many different chord types and they each have their own numeric formula. These numbers represent the chord tones. Beyond those basics, the easiest notes to bring into your vocabulary will be those that come from the scale of the key you are in. If all of the chords that are in the song are actually from the same key, then using that scale will provide what is needed (there are a lot of situations where not all of the chords come from the same key but I won't go into that here). A traditional approach would be to use the notes of that scale and make sure to focus on the chord tones of each chord as it passes.