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Lessons: Lesson #49: Basic Rock Bass |
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Pages: 1 2 3 4
Suggested Tempo: 120 |
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OK, got that? I thought so. Well, here's something VERY important
to remember: 95% of modern, western music breaks down into
groupings of two or four bars, and their multiples (8 and 16, for
example).
So to make your bass line sound more "pro", think about working
in two and four bar "phrases" In this example, bar 1 is straight,
and we finish bar 2 off with a little walk on three scale notes
(actually from the A minor scale).
Then in bar 4, we vary the phrase a bit.
In bar 5, we return to the original pattern from bars 1
and 2. Then, to give a feeling of wrapping up an eight bar phrase
with a nice ribbon,we add in another variation.
So in it's simplest form, we have three section, one of
which repeats exactly (let's call it "A") and two phrases that
vary (let's call them "B" and "C"). The form of our little
eight-bar masterpiece is ABAC. Make sense to you? If not, read it
again from the top while listening to the example.
Remember, on the first page I talked about THREE elements of
music reflected in the bass line of a song...in addition to
rhythm and harmony, this introduces the third element - the
element of "line". The musical term for line is "melody". That's
exactly what we're talking about here, in it's most basic form.
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