Bass Plays F# m7add11

F# m7add11 spells F# – A – B – C# – E. A chord chart tells you that much and stops; an arrangement asks what happens to it once the song is actually playing, which is the question this page answers.

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.