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

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 ...

so don’t get too stuck trying to play the chord shapes. Normally, we’d start by playing the G in the bass, because the root is our first port of call for constructing a bassline – but there ...