C m6/9 on Bass (5-String)

Root first, then the colors: every C m6/9 tone placed on the BEADG neck, ready to walk.

C m6/9 chord diagram, starting at fret 1. Strings low to high: B 4th fret, E 8th fret, A open, D open, G 5th fret.

C m6/9 spells C – D – D# – 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 (5-String)'s BEADG 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. The 5-string layout adds a low B to the standard EADG core, so the same shapes reach further without shifting.

Start from the root, play the arpeggio until the sound of C m6/9 is in your ears, then loop it against the progressions in C so the tones become choices instead of charts.