The bass tab is at the core of many iconic songs, resonating through speakers and headphones. While it may not always steal the limelight, it's the bedrock on which many memorable tunes are built.

Bass Week: As bass players we naturally have to know our chords, and ideally a fair bit about harmony and chord progressions in general, as we are the ones banging out the root notes! But there are ...

In this frankly epic tutorial we're concentrating solely on chords and chordal ideas, and the following will act as a compendium of great chord fingerings. The audio examples start with simple chords ...