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Bass Fretboard Reference

Bass Triads

On guitar you name the top note. On bass you name the bottom note — because the lowest note you play is the chord the band is playing.

Chord in C
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What's in the bass
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The same shape, somewhere else — nothing new to learn.

C 1

C in the bass — the 1

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C — C in the bass (1). Notes in order: C, E, G, C, fingering 2 — 1 · 4 — 4.

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