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Old 05-26-2010, 09:23 AM
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I alluded to this in another post, but here's the full thing.

Rock On by David Essex is admittedly a strange but cool song. I love the "bassy-ness" and "reverby-ness" of it. Anyway: http://www.sheetmusicdirect.us/ecom/...mId=1000048483

I'd like to do some kind of arrangement of this, all on bass of course. There are no triads to play chords, but there are the notes of what I think are C#m and C#m7 individually and in one combo or another. The intro is a no-brainer on bass.

The first few beats of the verse are the root and 3rd of C#m, but no 5th until a beat or two later; then a couple of individual notes; then notes from C#m7... you see. I believe a C#m and C#m7 on a bass would be

.....C#m.......C#m7
G|--6----------6--------|
D|--6----------6--------|
A|--7----------7--------|
E|-------------7--------|

So I'm thinking of either trying the full chords that I work out, or playing as the individual and octave notes are written.

So if anyone has any ideas...
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