Electric Bass: B Power (5) in the Changes

Where B Power (5) sits once the key is named, and what this seat is responsible for while it sounds.

B Power (5) chord diagram, starting at fret 2. Strings low to high: E muted, A 2nd fret, D 4th fret, G muted.

B Power (5) is B – F#. Naming the notes is where a chord chart stops. A tune asks the next question instead, and that is the one this page answers.

B Power (5) has no third of its own, so it names no degree until something around it does — which is why it turns up as a suspension over a chord that already has a job rather than as a chord with one.

The electric bass seat carries the amplified bottom — the same harmonic duty as the upright, played with a fingerboard that answers back and a sustain the room can hear over a backbeat. The chord tones are the same ones the upright would choose; what changes is that a note can be held through the bar instead of dying, so a line can lean on a chord rather than announce it.

Every shape is drawn for EADG across 4 strings, the open ones first and the movable ones up the neck after them, and each one plays back so you can hear the voicing before you commit it to a chorus.