Chord Charts For Bass Guitar
In the chart above we have the 7 natural bass guitar chords in their major minor and 7th forms.
Chord charts for bass guitar. Music performance professional musician while the main function of the bass is to outline the harmony of pianists guitarists singers or an orchestra or big band the bass guitar can also be used as a harmonic instrument to play chords. For c major we would typically play the root on the a string at the third fret a third on the d string at the second fret and another root on the g string at the fifth fret. For example the same major chord shape can be used at one position to play an a major chord and at another to play a c major chord.
By knowing your chords one can learn a piece just from its melody and thus there s a lot less to have to figure out. Du c ck clu. In addition some of these chords are inversions.
The bass chord charts here illustrate potential shapes for c chords and g chords. Free bass guitar chord chart by jim josselyn m m. This is where things start to get interesting movable bass chords shapes can be moved up and down the neck of the instrument to play chords with different root notes.
Below are the spellings of each of these chords in order from left to right and top to bottom. Chords are usually the building blocks of music and knowing all of them can become a shortcut to learning any song ever written. 0 om oaug odim 06 07 omaj7 omin7.