Bass guitar chords

An easy guide to learning bass guitar chords

Bass guitar is also known as electric bass, or bass is a stringed instrument that is played primarily with fingers or thumbs, by plucking, slapping, generating, picking, tapping, pounding, or plucking with plectrum, often known as a pick.

The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but has a longer neck length and length, and four to six strings or a course. The four-string bass, by far the most common, is usually tuned to double bass, which corresponds to an octave lower than four low-pitched guitar strings (E, A, D, and G).

The bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as seen on the bass clef an octave higher than it sounds. The electric bass guitar has pickups and needs to be connected to amplifiers and speakers, to make the sound loud enough to compete with other instruments.

A chord, in music, is a series of harmonic tones consisting of two or more (usually three or more) notes (also called "pitches") that sound like they are heard at the same time.

For many practical and theoretical purposes, broken arpeggios and chords, or chord sequence sequences, can also be considered chords.

Chords and chord sequences are often used in modern West African music and Oceanic music, western classical music, and Western popular music; However, they are absent from music in many other parts of the world.

In tonal Western tonal music tones (music with tonic keys or "house keys"), the most commonly encountered chords are triads, so called because they consist of three different notes: root notes, and the first and fifth intervals above the other chord root notes more than three tones including additional tone chords, expanded chords and group tones, used in contemporary classical music, jazz and other genres.