| Bass's range to too low to use guitar voicing unless you take them up the neck an octave. It is easy to make your own chords forms for bass and you'll learn a lot more in the long run. In general you take regular chord spelling 1, 3, 5, 7 and toss out the 5th. That leaves you with the two most important notes the 3rd and 7th and root as a plus.
I use voicings like this on 4, 5, and 6 string basses. Put the root on a low string like E and they put the 3rd and 7th on your to high strings. That voicing is open enough to play even low on the neck. On 4-string bass work out voicing with root on both E and A strings. On 5-string work them out with B string root too. A plus to these is you can leave off the root and have the common double-stops bass player use. Or leave out the seventh and have 10th's which work real well too.
So work out the voicing for 7th, mi7, and Ma7. I would also suggest working out 6th, dim (1,b3, bb7), major, minor and augmented triads.
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Steve Barnette
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