G dominant 9th arpeggio on bass

The G dominant 9th arpeggio is G, B, D, F, A.

You may also see it called 1 3 5 ♭7 2.

On a bass staff, the G dominant 9th arpeggio is written G B D F A.

The solid notes are the G dominant 9th arpeggio. The pale notes are the rest of G mixolydian, the larger scale it is carved out of, so you can see which notes it leaves out.

The G dominant 9th arpeggio needs no sharps or flats, because every letter already falls where the 4 T+S T+S 4 -2 pattern of steps needs it.

The pattern of steps is the part of a scale that never changes. The letter names take sharps or flats to fit that pattern, and a key signature is a record of those sharps or flats.

The keyboard shows the same five notes as a shape you can see. The coloured keys are the G dominant 9th arpeggio, and the pale keys are the rest of G mixolydian.

36 notes of the G dominant 9th arpeggio are marked across four strings.

This is every place the notes of the G dominant 9th arpeggio fall on the bass, with each note's name and its scale degree. The roots are marked so you can find your bearings.

The G dominant 9th arpeggio has five playable positions, at frets 3–8, 5–12, 9–14, 10–17 and 12–19.

There are five shapes, and each one starts on a different note of the scale. Once you know one shape you can slide it along the neck, and once you know all five they join up to cover the whole neck.

The climb runs from fret 3 to fret 14 and plays twelve notes.

This is one path from the lowest root to the top of the neck, and it plays each note once, never on two strings. It takes three notes on every string. The widest stretch on any one string is five frets.