How to Play Minor Bass Chords

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Now that we know how to play our Dorian mode we're going to show you, I'm going to show you how to play the chord that applies to the Dorian mode. We know that the Dorian mode goes for minor chords; we're going to play it over these chords. And if we remember from before chords are based upon the one the three, the five and the seventh, but on the bass we're going to omit the fifth. So if we look at our scale we have our one, our three which is flat three in this case because it's a minor chord and then four, five, six and a flat seven. So our minor chord is composed of a root note, a flat third, which we're going to play right there and then a flat seven. So the way we're going to play our minor chord on the bass is one, flat three, flat seven. So you would either play it like this, if you're voicing in on the A string with a root, or if we want to play the same chord but voicing it with a root on the E string we're going to put our first finger here. And instead of doing this, like before with the major chord, we're going to put this note and bring it up an octave, so now we have this sound. So it's the same exact chord but it sounds a little different because of the voicing. We have, and we also have. And like I said before with the mixolydian chord, or the dominate chord, it translates anywhere. In this tune we have an E minor seven, so we can play it with our root on the E here, or we can play this E minor. And we also have the D minor seven chord, like I was showing earlier, or we have this A minor. Where can play with our root here, or we can bring it up here. So that's how you would go about playing minor chords on the electric bass.

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