C 7add11 on Bass (6-String)

Root first, then the colors: every C 7add11 tone placed on the BEADGC neck, ready to walk.

C 7add11 chord diagram, starting at fret 1. Strings low to high: B 1st fret, E open, A 3rd fret, D 3rd fret, G 3rd fret, C open.

C 7add11 spells C – E – F – 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 (6-String)'s BEADGC 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 6-string layout adds a low B and a high C 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 7add11 is in your ears, then loop it against the progressions in C so the tones become choices instead of charts.