Unit 3: Low end · Lesson 2 of 10

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Give each part its own height, so nothing fights and nothing is thin. 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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Unit 3 · Lesson 2 · How it works

Who lives where

Give each part its own height, so nothing fights and nothing is thin.

Lowest to highest
Done

Three parts of one loop, each on its own. Play each, then tap them in order, from the lowest to the highest.

Play each, then tap them in order.
Put them in order, from lowest to highest.
1. Lowest?
2. Then?
3. Highest?
B, the bass, is lowest; C, the chords, sit in the middle; A, the lead, is on top. In a good mix each part has a height of its own.

B: The bass
Bass
C: The chords
A: The lead
Room, or a crowd
Done

Two mixes of one loop. First the bass sits low, under everything. Then the same notes move up among the chords: two parts fight for one place, and the bottom goes thin.

Play, then hear both.
100bpm
4 bars

Kick
Snare
Hats
Bass
Chords
1. Bar 1Am7
2. Bar 2Fmaj7
3. Bar 3Cmaj7
4. Bar 4G7
Which mix has room?
Done

Three mixes of the same parts. In two of them something is at the wrong height. Play each, then choose the one where everything has room.

Play each, then choose.
1. Which mix has room for everything?
Lesson done

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

Step 1 of 3

Lowest to highest