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

It’s so named because it’s the 7th from a major scale ... chord, in the usual way. The addition of the ‘/G’ element, tells us that we want a chord of C, but with a bass note of G.

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