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

The major key and the minor key, which will begin on a different note. This is known as the relative minor. So G major ... degrees of the scale make different kinds of chords.

All the chords built on other notes in the scale ... an F (G - B - D - F). A cadence is formed by two chords at the end of a passage of music. Sometimes the final cadence of a piece in a minor ...

But there are many different ways to play chords on the bass guitar – and they ... alternate notes above it in the scale to give us the third and fifth. In G major, starting on G, we get ...