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Unit 3: Low end · Lesson 3 of 10

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Play each chord’s lowest note on the bass, and hear it follow the chords. About 3 minutes, in your browser.

  • All 10 parts of Unit 3, 6 cards and a project: add a bass line to your beat and make it heavier without adding drums.
  • Every unit after it, as it opens
  • Your Unit 1 cards, beats and progress carry over
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Root notes

Play each chord’s lowest note on the bass, and hear it follow the chords.

  1. Which one follows?

    Done

    The chords change every bar: A minor, F, C, G. Two basses play under them. One follows the chords, one doesn’t. Play both, then choose.

    Play each, then choose.

    1. Which bass follows the chords?

  2. Follow the chords

    Done

    Put a bass note on every other box, eight in all. You only fill one bar: on each chord, the row plays that chord’s root by itself. The chords are named under the grid.

    0 of 8 in place.

    100bpm
    4 bars
    Kickalready there
    Snarealready there
    Hatsalready there
    Rootyour turn
    Chordsalready there
    1. Bar 1Am7
    2. Bar 2Fmaj7
    3. Bar 3Cmaj7
    4. Bar 4G7

  3. Root or not?

    Done

    One clip at a time, over the same chords. Is the bass on each chord’s root, or somewhere else?

    Round 1 of 2.

    1. On the root, or somewhere else?

  4. Lesson done

    3 steps, all done, and saved to your account.

    In your collection

    Ready to use: drop it into the beat maker, or find it any time in your collection.

    Your collection Try it in the beat maker Its page in the dictionary

    Octave bass is next. Jump from the root to the same note an octave up: the bounce of disco.

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