If you’re doing the Beginner to Badass course, you could play these chords any time, but the theory will make the most sense once you get into Module 8.
Major and Minor Tenth Bass Chord Shapes
Here are the major and minor tenth shapes starting on an A - but you can slide these around anywhere.
Middle finger on the low note and pinky on the high note is a good fingering option because you can use it on both shapes, so you don’t have to swap fingers while you slide around.
How Tenths Work
Like I said in the video, these are called “tenths” because they’re like the third of a scale bumped up an octave. And if we just kept counting through the scale past the octave, that would be the tenth note we get to, like in this image:
There are some sexy tenths that I love at the beginning of Marcus Miller’s cover of “What Is Hip?”, before he goes into the crazy-speed double thumbing:
Very good, @JoshFossgreen . . . there will never be any shortage of things I need to learn and practice with The concept of ‘tenths’ is something which helped my understanding of scales, too.
Thanks very much. Also left you a thumbs up on the Tube . . .
If I recall correctly from my advanced bass theorems class, the equation is:
A = B x C²
Where:
A is the number of raised eyebrows you get at a gig
B is the number of people in the band other than you
C is the number of bass chords you play during said gig
The concept of ‘tenths’ is something which helped my understanding of scales, too.
