Chords for Ocean's Edge School - Bass Arpeggios "How Great is our God"

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_ _ _ Today we're [Em] going to go over some bass solo fill [Ab] ideas using chords and arpeggios.
Chords and [G] arpeggios are great.
The [Ab] chords really help you make sense of the entire key and [Gm] the fretboard, how it works
on the bass [Bb] guitar.
_ _ Also how [Ab] licks that you probably already [Gb] know how they [Ab] actually function [G] within the song
and how they relate to other licks.
It gives us some good connective [F] tissue for everything.
[Am] The first [Ab] thing that we're going to look at is the chord shapes themselves.
I assume that you already know the major scale and how to build [Bbm] simple chord shapes.
These [G] chords _ have the intervals 1, 3, and 7.
So it's a 1 and obviously a major [Gb] or minor, 3rd and [G] 7th.
On bass guitar sometimes it's better to play the extensions that mean [Ab] more than say just
like a 4 and a [Gbm] 5, [Bb] which sometimes don't tell you whether the chord is major or minor.
[E] So what we're going to learn is how [B] to harmonize [Bbm] the major scale using chords.
_ [G] Starting in C, [Ab] the first, and it's very [G] important that you memorize [Ab] this order.
This will help you out for a long, long time.
The order of chords.
The first chord [C] is going to be major.
[B] It's major 7 in this case.
We're [G] playing 1, 3, 7.
[Abm] The second chord is going to be minor.
[Em] This is D [Dm] minor 7. _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] The third [E] chord is E minor 7.
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_ _ _ [Abm] The fourth chord is [G] F [F] major 7. _ _ _ _ _ _
Five [G] chord is G dominant 7. _ _
_ _ Six [Abm] chord is A [Am] minor 7. _
_ _ _ _ [G] The seventh chord is B minor 7 flat [B] 5.
But typically in modern music, except for jazz and blues, we really don't play a flat
5 that much.
It does show up every now and then.
_ But what we'll do is we will use the minor 7 shape [Gb] for [Bm] that.
So it'll [Dm] be B minor 7 in this case.
So again, all the way through the [G] scale should [E] sound like this. _
_ [F] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [F] _
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
Descending and we'll throw in the flat 5 chord just for fun. _ _
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To arpeggiate the chords, all we have to do [G] is play one note at a time.
So it would [E] sound like _ first _ C major [F] 7.
D minor 7 [D] would sound [F] like.
_ [D] _ [C] _ _ [B] Now, I'm not tying those notes together, but you [F] could _ let them all ring.
You're just [G] hitting them at different times.
_ But going up the scale could sound [A] like.
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_ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _ [C] _
[Em] _ _ _ Then descending, even within the chord, descending notes [E] from high to low.
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[E] _ _ Now sometimes [C] in the [A] lower registers, [G] you'll hear those [C] chords.
It's kind of muddy and it's kind of hard to hear what they are.
But the same chord an octave up _ is [A] really pretty, [Gb] especially [Am] with hammer-ons.
_ It's _ _
[C] _ _ really nice.
[Gb] We're going to take How Great Is Our God.
[Ab] The [G] first chord in the [Ab] song is [G] C major.
It goes to A minor and then to F major.
And so if we start on C, _ on our way [A] to A, _ what we can do is arpeggiate the C major [B] 7
to B [Ab] minor 7 _ and land on A. _ _
_ [C] _ [Am] Okay, here we go. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Now that we're on A minor, what we can [Bb] do is [G] on our way to F, we can [C] hit A minor [G] 7,
_ _ G 7, dominant 7, _ _ _ [C] to F.
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ Okay, [E] within the context of a song, we can actually, not only can we go [Abm] down, but we
can go up.
We don't have to stay in order.
[E] It's best to use [G] your ears. _
But I'll do them going all the way down, [E] and then we'll climb from F all the way back up
to C, which would be _ so _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C]
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