Ivan, I just play the D for the bass. But in truth, I don't land on it very hard; instead I try to emphasize the B note on the second fret of the A string. I'm doing a little progression, emphasizing the C on the third fret of the A string when playing the C chord, then travelling one fret down to the B, then emphasizing the A string itself as the bass of the D chord. But I'm too sloppy a player not to also be hitting the low D at the same time, so it's there pretty much the whole way through, just a lot stronger when I'm playing the D chord, and also when I'm playing the G chord on the way up from the D. P.S. You know my voice well enough to suspect that I don't actually play this at D, G, and C... I have the capo on the fifth fret when I play it. Margaret