Simple Bass Line Progressions A bass line progression is a progression where the bass note of a chord (“the lowest note played in a chord”) is changing and following a predetermined or predictable pattern. There are two generic types of bass line chord progressions: ascending (the bass line goes higher in pitch) and descending (the bass line goes lower in pitch). The bass line progressions can be pictured as going up or down a small set of stairs. Root Note is Usually the Bass Note One thing to understand first, is when any chord is being played, it’s bass note (or lowest note) is the root note of the chord (unless we are told otherwise). Thus the bass note of a G chord, a Gsus, a Gm7, a Gdim, etc. is a “G” note. If we need to change the bass note of a G major chord to a B, for example, we would write it kind of like a fraction: G/B. We often call these “slash” chords. The Dm7 chord with a C note in the bass would be written ‘Dm7/C’. An A7 with a C# note in the bass would be w...
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Isus – I – I2 – I This progression was made popular in the 70s in Barry Manilow’s song, “Can’t Smile Without You”. In it, the third note of a chord is altered by starting with the suspended 4th, then resolving to the major chord, then changing to a suspended second, and resolving again with the major chord. Try it in the following examples: Dsus-D-D2-D Listen to this progression in the key of D: Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Asus-A-A2-A Listen to this progression in the key of A: Audio Player I – Imaj7 – I6 – Imaj7 Here’s an interesting progression found in a number of songs. Listen to Lee Brice’s song Love Like Crazy to hear it (see Youtube video at the end of this post). The example in the key of G is G, Gmaj7, G6, Gmaj7 and then repeats: G-Gmaj7-G6-Gmaj7 Here’s perhaps a better sounding way to play this progression in the key of G: G Gmaj7 G6 Gmaj7 e:-3---x---3-...
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Barre Chords The information in this section covers the following: What is a barre chord? Advantage of playing barre chords E shape barre chords A shape barre chords C shape barre chords Barre Chord Numbering – Putting it All Together: I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi. This section demonstrates how we can visualize and play the chord families easily. Additionally, it shows how we can simply transpose to different keys using barre chords. What is a Barre Chord? Click here to download a PDF file of Intro to Barre Chord Theory. A barre chord is simply a guitar chord where one finger (usually the index finger), frets more than one string at the same time. Many times the index finger frets all strings in one fret and acts as a “temporary capo”. This is how we would chart an F barre chord. Notice the curved line demonstrating that this is a barre chord. This is what an actual F barre chord looks like on the guitar. Advantage of Barre Chords Barre chords are not exactl...
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