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

A chord written with a slash means the first letter is the key chord and the second is the bass note. For example, D/A indicates the chord is D major and there is an A in the bass. This is known ...

and adding 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 key ends with a major chord instead of the ...