Can some one show me what you can do with this ? I'm learning it now and it sounds very cool. but I liek to hear some demo's based off this ok?
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Root 4ths & 5ths Back to root again.
- Thread starter Bluez Dawg
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jonly said:
it's hard for me to explain I can take a shap shot of my finger board if you want me tooo? ( paper finger board I mean in like sheet music wise ) I might have forgotten something lol.
Are you talking about the I IV V progression? Or arpeggiating the root, fourth, and fifth of a chord?
yeah and it's helping my muting . I'm starting to mute with my piny of the open strings.FretlessFreak said:
Bluez Dawg said:
well.. what you have there is a suspended 4th arpeggio... a very useful pattern to wiggle around over rock music because it doesn't have any offensive notes or anything that will clash with whatever your guitarist is knocking out..
it has no major or minor character so feel free to use it over absolutely everything, regardless of what else is going on in the music
learn to stick an octave, a minor 3rd and a minor 7th in there and you have a minor pentatonic scale... many rock bass players have made an entire career from knowing just that one scale
cowsgomoo said:
BAD ADVICE.
Perfect 4ths clash horribly with major chords. Stick to 5ths over major chords and b3's over minor chords. It's true that the perfect 4th isn't an avoid note over a minor chord (it's a very nice tension when used in a solo), but to create a bass line or groove around it in minor is a terrible idea, since it sounds like the bass is flailing around trying to resolve to a I, since the root you're playing is going to sound like the V of the IV.
