Bass: Chords for a Country Arrangement

The chord reference for this chair. Pick a root, then any of 62 qualities, and get the shapes plus the thing a chord chart never tells you: what this chair does with the chord once the arrangement is running.

The bass chair carries the root-and-fifth pulse everything else in the arrangement is timed against. Almost none of a chord is playable down here and almost none of it is wanted: the mix hears whichever note sits at the bottom as the chord, so the choice is which one, and when.

Every shape below is drawn for EADG, 4 strings, with the open shapes first and the movable ones up the neck after them, and each one plays back so you can hear it before it goes on a record.