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

This becomes what is known as a 1st inversion, and if we similarly move the note E up an octave, G becomes ... in your chord ...

In the classical world, this practice would usually be called ‘inversions’ of a chord. Briefly, a major or minor chord with the 3rd shifted to the bottom (such as D/F#) is a first inversion.