| it's more important to know about chords than to be able to knock out a few nice sounding chord tricks on the bass... so learn the theory, and use it to derive the shapes... you'll be a lot better player that way than simply learning where your fingers go
learn chord theory, and use that knowledge to work out how to play arpeggios all over the neck... the chords are just derived from those arpeggios
for 3-note bass chords, you'll often phrase the root on one string, the 3rd on the string above, and the 7th on the string above that... so the first step would probably be to learn what the shapes of minor7, major7 and dominant 7 chords look like, and start putting together some simple diatonic chord sequences...
then look at incorporating open strings, double stops and other chord shapes... based on your theory
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what a waste of energy, I'm gone...
mark my words
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