Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions ...

If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from ... The two most important chord types in ...

Here are some examples: Rock bass lines are usually very simple, and relate to the rhythm of the guitar part ... root note and fifth of a chord (with a chord of C major, this is C and G).

The dominant seventh of a V chord can be shown by the symbol V7. For example, G7 is made by taking the major triad of G (G - B - D) and adding an F (G - B - D - F). A cadence is formed by two ...

But there are many different ways to play chords on the bass guitar – and they’re not ... the scale to give us the third and fifth. In G major, starting on G, we get G, B and D to make a ...