Let’s begin by looking at the four basic triads: major, minor, augmented and diminished ... Normally, we’d start by playing the G in the bass, because the root is our first port of call ...

Slap bass arrived in the late ‘60s – and just ... Peppers and reminiscent of Flea’s slap grooves. This line is in G minor and makes use of the G blues scale (G, Bb, C, Db.