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Now, in our last two lessons we talked about developing the major and minor chord triads of any note on the bass guitar.

The gist is, if you can memorize these shapes off head. it wont be hard for you to remember’. Neither will it be hard for you to memorize. Look at the two shapes again.

Major triad shape

Minor triad shape

You see the general chord distribution for the major scale that is so common is written below:

C       D      E        F        G        A          B         C

1        2       3        4         5         6          7          1

Maj   min   min   Maj   Maj     min     Dim     Maj

d        r        m       f         s          l           t           d

Please don’t begin to get confused. Just relax ok!!

Maj stands for major
min stands for minor
Dim stands for Diminished

You see that “Diminished” we would come to it later.

Let us go back to our “Major” and “Minor”

Video is coming for illustration of the application of the major and minor chords

You need to be familiar with your musical instrument. We’ve briefly described the bass guitar with the aid of a picture and little description below the image.

Bass guitar image courtesy of Bass guitar for dummies

The tuning machines are used to tune the bass guitar so that they would sound correctly.

You should know by now that without the strings of the bass guitar there is no bass guitar. This is because you won’t have anything to strike as a player.

The strap pin and end pin are used to hook the strap on(or belt) so you can hang the guitar on yourself.

The controls are used to adjust the sound settings to suit yourself.

What a qestion!!

What is a bass guitar?

A bass guitar is a stringed musical instrument with primarily four strings.
Although today we have bass guitars with five strings, even six strings. Don’t think it stops at six; there are also seven and even more stringed bass guitars.

The traditional bass guitar comes with four strings.

If you are reading this particular lesson now. Congratulations. ‘Now you are getting more professional everyday. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Today we are going to be talking about the seventh chords. These chords sound more complex than your usual triads.

The most common seventh chords we have are

Major:                                                                   1   3   5      7
Minor                                                                    1   b3  5   b7
Dominant                                                              1    3    5   b7
“Half diminished” or “minor seven flat five”       1   b3   b5   b7

Now let us look at their chord shapes on the bass guitar…it is very important.

We would be updating all these post in this bass guitar series with videos soon. Keep in touch with our youtube channel so you wont miss them.

Now that we have dealt well with major, minor and augumented chords on the bass guitar.

We are going to briefly discuss the diminished chord on the bass guitar.

Its pretty easy to play all the chords on the guitar because once you know the shape that the chord takes, you can use it anywhere on the fret board.

The diminished chord has the symbol C^o

 
In this diminished chord you will simply lower the fifth and third by half. It is unlike the Augumented chord where we raise the fifth by half.

i.e we have      1     3      5
C    E     G

the augumented chord becomes    1       b3       b5
C      Eb       Gb

Remember that in the chord shape diagram above the white circles stand as the root of the chord.