Playing lines based on root notes should be every player's starting point when learning bass. Root notes provide a solid, steady foundation for a band to play over. However, to develop a deeper ...

Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions in general, as we are the ones banging out the root notes! But there are ...

In music theory, an extension is similar in concept to a house extension, except that, rather than three-bed semis, we’re dealing with three-note chords. By definition, to extend is to make something ...