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Ecm press releases for new items page 10 new releases. The bassline construction method explored here uses chord tones, approach notes and basic reharmonization. In this example, the bass line consists of simple arpeggiations of each chord, giving the overall effect of a simple blues bass line. A guitar in standard tuning will never reach the lower bass notes of a real bass, but. The collection of material of this book is, in our opinion, the basics to playing bass guitar for some event.
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