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

Before we get more deeply into the triads concept, take a look here at the full chord shapes they’re based on – all in D major. And along the same lines, these are the notes of the D major sca ...

Everything on the guitar seems impossible the first time ... bass note is not the root note of the chord. If you play a D major chord while letting the low E string ring out, that’s D/E.

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 ...

The major key and the minor key ... the dominant seventh was often substituted with an augmented chord.This gave the tonic-dominant a new and modern feel. This can be heard in Can’t Help ...