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

Harmonic minor keys are used when writing chords. There is another version of the minor key known as the melodic minor. This is used when writing a melody. Each key signature has two possible keys.

Starting on any note in the key as the root of our chord, we play the next two alternate notes above it in the scale to give us the third and fifth. In G major, starting on G, we get G ...