Anyone know online where one can snag a bass chord chart?
Roy
"I wonder if a composer ever intentionally composed a piece that was physically impossible to play and stuck it away to be found years later after his death, knowing it would forever drive perfectionist musicians crazy." - George Carlin
1 - 3 - 5
1 - b3 - 5
1 - 3 - 5 - 7
etc.
Apply anywhere you need 'em.
;)
"Everybody got to elevate from the norm."
Get a fretboard chart, find the root note you want. Memorize the below pattern.
Pattern 1
6-7R
34-5
-R-2
and this pattern is also useful
Pattern 2
-7R--
4-5-6
R-2-3
The above patterns are the positions to play for each chord. Converted to a tab here is an A chord
Pattern 1 Pattern 2
G---------- G----------
D---------7 D---------7
A----4-7--- A------5---
E--5------- E--5-9-----
Or here is Am
Pattern 1 Pattern 2
G---------- G----------
D---------7 D---------7
A----3-7--- A------5---
E--5------- E--5-8-----
E shaped moveable chords work fine on a bass but generally it seems to make more sense to memorize the relative positions of intervals on the fretboard and build the chords from individual notes. I wish I could offer advice on how to avoid making things sound repetitive.
A few more sources:
http://www.haarslevefterskole.dk/acrobat/bass_chords.pdf
and
http://wheatsbassbook.org/chapter_select.php?chapter=015
But still, know your intervals.
"Everybody got to elevate from the norm."
Don't know if this'll help Roy, but when I first picked up the four-stringed beastie, I thought almost exclusively in terms of guitar chords......say I was playing a blues in E - E, A and B7 - I'd be playing around with the bass notes in those chords. At first, it'd just be the bottom two strings - root and fifth....then I started experimenting with the D and G strings.
As long as you know the notes on the fretboard, you can apply them to bass-lines.
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Thanks everyone. I think I get what's going on with this. Now to explain it to the kid......
Roy
"I wonder if a composer ever intentionally composed a piece that was physically impossible to play and stuck it away to be found years later after his death, knowing it would forever drive perfectionist musicians crazy." - George Carlin
Ooooh, nice slej, I like that bass chords reference, I think I'm going to re-arrange that a bit, and print it off for reference for a few different patterns I don't tend to think of (I tend not to think of chord inversions when I look for a way to play a chord... I need to work on that).
And of course another yay for wheats bass book, I think reading through that was one of the things that got my bass GAS attack started... either that or I was spending way too much time studying bass at work on the internet...
