C 6 on Bass (4-String)

Root first, then the colors: every C 6 tone placed on the EADG neck, ready to walk.

C 6 chord diagram, starting at fret 1. Strings low to high: E open, A open, D 2nd fret, G 5th fret.

C 6 spells C – E – G – A. A bassline treats those notes as a hierarchy — root first for gravity, fifth for stability, then the third and any extensions for color — and the shapes below put each of them under your fingers on the Bass (4-String)'s EADG strings.

Full chords are optional equipment on bass: down low, stacked thirds turn to mud, so the grips that work keep two or three notes — root-fifth, root-tenth, shell voicings — and the arpeggio is how the rest of the chord becomes a line.

Start from the root, play the arpeggio until the sound of C 6 is in your ears, then loop it against the progressions in C so the tones become choices instead of charts.