This is a terrible thing and I’d burn it if I could.
The information is all technically correct, but would mostly sound like rumbles and farts if you tried to play them on your bass.
For a Bass VI (and I’ve got one!) it would be much better to just get a list of guitar chord shapes and try those. The Bass VI doesn’t play like a bass at all. The string gauge and spacing is set up like a guitar.
You pretty much have to play with a pick - or guitar fingerstyle - and it sounds great with big guitar chords.
But if you try those same big guitar chord fingerings on your normal 4 string (like this diagram has listed here) most of the chords will sound like garbage because your 4 string has a massive string gauge, and the low fundamentals and huge wave forms will completely overwhelm all the chord information you’re trying to get across.
I don’t know if this makes sense or not.
Basically, these diagrams are not practical for a bassist. They are cribbed from guitar land. But they’re inferior to guitar land chords, because once you have your Bass VI you’ll be able to use all 6 strings, and you may as well get into full-on guitar chord shapes.
Yep, sure does. I’ve been working on the CAGED chords (skipping barre chords for now because they’re evil) on my 6 string. I haven’t played in 20 years and it’s surprisingly nothing like riding a bike. I can remember how to make chords with my fingers but couldn’t tell you what I’m playing and the dexterity to move from shape to shape is completely gone. I was more wondering if this chart was something that I could use in addition to regular chords on the vi.
I don’t think this chart will add anything helpful if you’re already working on the CAGED stuff.
A lot of the things they have here are off-the-wall terrible, particularly on bass, whilst still being, technically, music-theory-correct.
The useful diagrams from this chart are already in the CAGED system, but in easier and more user-friendly ways.
For bass, you might even want to stick with the simpler root-fifth power chords as well, TBH. On a 4-string the 3-note chords are already pretty muddy; on a Bass VI they might be borderline when rooted on the E and A.
I’ve had great success with full bar chords on my bass VI - most everything from the 5th fret up sounds amazing played with normal guitar stuff, the lower things can get a bit buried…
But the sound of the instrument is so much more treble-y and twangy, that you just don’t run into the monster low-end rumbles that a normal bass would have.
For the barre chords, I was actually more worried about my physical ability to do them on a Bass VI than the sound - I can barely do them on a normal guitar
@faydout, there is a reddit group for Bass VI lovers with some sticky threads on useful chords and triads.
When I have been playing around with them I find the most useful are on the bottom 3 strings. Often these are inversions
You can hear the chord and they are in moveable shapes.
Essentially still filling in the upper bottom range.
If you want I can send you pdf I made from these posts.(all open source)
Yeah, that exactly. If you treat the nut in those shapes as the 12th fret (one octave up), some might be useful. You’ll just have to try them and see how they sound. Me? I’ll stick to power chord dyads.
More bass chords than you can shake a stick at!
I mean, there are clams and flubs galore here.
But that’s what rocking is all about.
Hope ya dig it forum buddies!!
Now I’m going to have to play with chords.
sure i see some air bass happening in the crowd 