Chord Shapes for Bass

Hey! I made these charts to help bass players including myself, haha.
So if you're a bass player, you're welcome to download the PDF file with all the shapes. It's down below and it's free! 😏

And what this music stuff is all about and how it is connected to design...

Music theory is quite challenging, especially if you are a newbie. The good news is we've got shapes! For example, you have a C major chord. You don't need to remember exact notes, all you have to remember is finger positioning for a major chord and that's it! One shape works for all the major chords.

My design goal was to visualize all of those shapes for the printout.

What I've done:
1) Wrote down triads and chords
2) Added variations of labeling those items
3) Analyzed and regrouped that information
4) Created 2 pages layout: triads on the first page, chords on the second.

Now it is much easier for me to play music with this memo. Hope it'll be also helpful for other bass players

Update: Fixed major triad labeling (Gmaj usually means a chord, not a triad). Couldn't edit the shot cover so I left it as it was, but updated the second image and the PDF. Now it's ok!

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