Songwriting Habits - Bass Lesson Number 3 - Exercises using the notes from the chord C
In this post we will look at the types of notes bass players play.
Every song that we listen to are built on chords. Chords are made up of three notes from their scale.
For example in the scale of C - CDEFGABC - The C chord uses the 1st note (root), 3rd note and the 5th note. That means chord C= CEG.
When you start off learning bass you usually play the root (1st) note of the chord. Once you start building your skills you can start adding variations. The following exercises will show you how.
Exercise 1 - Moving from notes 1 - 5 ( we play the exercise x 2)
Exercise 2 - Notes 1 - 3 - 5 ( we play the exercise x 2)
Exercise 3 - Notes 1- 5
This use two 5th (G) notes a higher and lower one.
