Bass Chords for Instant Jazz | 2 Easy Chords to Impress on the Bass

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Want to sound like a jazz musician in just 5 minutes? Of course you do! Check out this jazzy trick using just 2 chords on the bass.

🎧LESSON INDEX

0:00 Lesson Intro
0:46 Dominant 7 Chords
1:48 2 Chord Shapes
4:57 The C-String Advantage
6:49 Creating 5-to-1 Resolution
8:19 Stringing the Chords Together
10:57 Wrap-up

💡 LESSON TOPICS

♪ 2 voices for the dominant 7 chord
♪ The dominant 7 chord is usually written with the root name followed by the number 7 (C7, G7, etc)
♪ This chord is the most common 4-note chord, built using scale degrees 1-3-5-b7 from the major scale
♪ Muting the 3rd string
♪ We can generally remove the 5th from a chord without altering its name. A C7 with no 5th is still a C7. In this case, we call the 5th “implied.”
♪ The C-string on a 5 or 6-string bass adds more options for notes and timbre
♪ The dominant 7 chord LOVES to resolve to the note it is the 5th of. We call this 5-to-1 resolution.
♪ Using these 2 shapes to create a perpetual 5-to-1 resolution

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My name is Alex, and my passion is teaching music online. I’m a bass player and composer by training and trade, but what I really love to do is teach. I make my living teaching private lessons on Bass, Guitar, Piano, and Ukulele. My favorite thing to teach is theory - helping the students understand the “why” behind the music and empowering them to make better and more informed musical choices. I’m very adamant about teaching technique. This is how you gain power and control over your instrument and ultimately raise the ceiling on where your limits are and where they will be in the future.

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