What this site is for
Bass Warrior covers the bass family: four, five and six string electric bass, the bass VI, and the double bass. The site is built on a different unit of thought than most of its sisters use. A chord page elsewhere hands you a grip — several strings pressed at once, one shape, one sound. Here a chord is a decision about which of its notes you play, in what order, and for how long, because you are supplying one note at a time while the harmony above you fills in the rest.
So a chord page on this site is really a page about roots, fifths, thirds and approach notes — which tone to land on, and which to walk through on the way there. That is the right answer for a bass player and the wrong answer for someone who wanted the shape, and the list below is where the shape lives.
Where to go instead
String WarriorOne chord laid out across twenty-odd instruments, for when you need to see the grip the rest of the band is holding.
Theory WarriorThe harmony you are underneath: what your chosen note does to the chord sitting on top of it, and why.
Keys WarriorThe left hand of a keyboard is your seat, played by someone whose right hand is still free. Worth seeing what a bass line looks like to a player who never has to choose between the root and everything else.
Ukulele WarriorFour strings like yours, tuned reentrant and pitched high, where nothing is holding the bottom down at all.
Mandolin WarriorTuned in fifths in paired courses, sitting at the opposite end of the range from your low B.
Guitar WarriorThe shapes you spend your evenings playing underneath — worth reading when the chart says a symbol you want to picture in a hand.
Banjo WarriorRolls, a drone string, and a right hand that never stops moving: the rhythmic opposite of sustaining one note.
Fiddle WarriorBowed, fretless and flexible about pitch, which is a useful mirror the week you pick up a double bass.
Ear WarriorHearing whether the root moved up a fourth or down a fifth is the entire job on a bad monitor mix. That site drills the thirteen distances one at a time and names the neighbour your ear keeps substituting.
Bluegrass WarriorThe seat rather than the instrument: two notes a bar, and a whole band leaning its weight on them.
Music Warrior NetworkA bass site knows where bass questions end and cannot say where the rest of the network begins; that site can — one card per sister, what each owns, and whether it is open to readers yet.
Nashville WarriorThe slash mark is addressed to the bass player and to nobody else on the stand. That site treats this reader as the person the writing was designed for, rather than as the part underneath somebody else's chords.
Mariachi WarriorOne instrument carries the whole low end and doubles nearly every note an octave below, on a neck with no frets. That site describes the guitarrón as a section's foundation rather than as a part underneath one.
Jazz WarriorTwo of that site's four seats are yours, upright and electric, carrying the same harmonic duty to different ends. It is the rare place where walking a change is treated as the job itself rather than as an advanced topic.
Country WarriorRoot and fifth, the pulse everything else is timed against, and almost never a fill. That site treats the country bass chair as its own subject, including which notes are simply not available on the way to the next chord.
Tres WarriorThe tumbao and the tres figure interlock by design: both are built around where the bass note does NOT fall. Hearing the other half of that conversation is the fastest way to understand what your anticipated bass is anticipating.
Sitar WarriorBass is the network's other single-line instrument, and the sitar shows what a single line becomes when nothing underneath it ever moves — a fixed drone instead of a chord chart, and every expressive decision pushed into the bend.
Oud WarriorBassists already think a line at a time and in positions rather than shapes, which is most of the way to an oud; what is left is a fingerboard with nothing to stop against and a modal system built for melody rather than for the bottom of a chord.
Cuatro WarriorIn joropo the cuatro and the bass split a fast triple metre between them, and the cuatro's job is to be relentlessly on top of it — the clearest picture of what your line is holding up when the harmony instrument refuses to rest.
Charango WarriorAbout as far from your register as this network reaches — a small instrument with no bottom at all, whose right hand is organised into repeatable cells rather than a line. A useful look at what the top of an arrangement does while you hold the floor.
Cavaquinho WarriorYou already think in the rhythm section. This is its opposite number in samba: a high, chordal instrument that spends its whole time on the offbeats you are leaving open, and that names every one of them.
Gear WarriorThe line gets written here; the rig that carries it does not. Cabinets, string gauges and the amp companies that keep changing hands are that site's beat rather than ours.
Blues WarriorThe bass outlines each bar's dominant seventh; that site is about the notes laid on top of it. Bar by bar through four blues forms, it says which blues-scale notes the chord already holds and which rub against your line.
Flamenco WarriorA bass line has to know where the cycle starts. That site lays out four palos from their count 12, marks the counts that carry the weight, and shows that the seguiriya is the soleá's cycle begun from its count 8.
Progression WarriorKnowing the root is the job here; knowing whether that root is the one or a borrowed flat six is the job there. Type the chord line and it puts a Roman numeral on every chord against the key it detects.
Pedal Steel WarriorThe bass names the root under every change. On a pedal steel the root can stay where it is while a pedal moves the third or the fifth, and that site says string by string which pedal moves what.
Scales WarriorGoing from Dorian to Mixolydian over a vamp changes one note of the line, the third. That site maps every pair of modes related that way, across seven families of seven-note scales.
Music Warrior AILines are this site's subject; the shapes under them are what people ask an AI assistant for. That site is the endpoint it can call: bass voicings and scales read from this network's data, each answer citing the bass page here that owns it.
How the sites divide the work
One family, one home, and family here means tuning and repertoire rather than the name on the headstock. The bass VI is on this site — six strings, tuned E to E an octave below a guitar, but written for and played as a bass — while the guitalele goes to Ukulele Warrior for exactly the mirror-image reason. Comparisons that cross those borders are String Warrior’s job, since it is the one site serving every instrument at once.
Sites still in build are left out of the list above on purpose, and each gets added the day it goes live.