![]() Since the melody notes are the most important thing, you must wait to see what fingers (and what notes can be reached by those fingers) are left available to put in bass notes, then choose and shape an interesting bass line based on the available fingers left over to hit the notes you want in the rhythms you want, whether it's a swing, fox trot, rock or rock ballad. then the bass line notes are put in last. ![]() ![]() Keeping in mind which LH fingers are tied up by the chord (including the bar finger) and by the melody line which may indeed compromise the chord a bit as you may need to borrow fingers from the chord to superimpose certain melody notes over the chord. Next, if you haven't first entered a melody line, enter that melody and adjust the standing chord notes to last the proper time until their respective string is intersected by a melody note. So when you are entering a measure of notes in Tabledit, you might start by entering all whole or half notes for the entire bar chord. Not that you play all the notes at once, but you must control all the strings anyway to create access then to melody notes and bass notes you may need on various strings along with the inner chord tones. The chord under your hand should control all the strings, so we're usually after a full bar chord. To temporarily defeat the swing 8ths in your Tabledit arrangement, one way is to write each 8^th as pair of 16th's, 2^nd one tied.įor a walking bass line in a swing or fox trot song, your first attention must be on keeping a chord under hand, usually a bar chord unless the chord can make use of an open low string. 1 is a middle ground for jazz eighths = not quite swing, not quite rock, for those too cool to commit (it actually has a definite place in certain jazz stylings). ![]() To set up swing eighth note interpretation in Tabledit, simply click on the speaker icon to get to midi options (or via pulldown) and change the syncopation box from 0 for rock eighths to 2 for swing eighths. So it's still 2 notes, but instead of equal timing on both, the first has twice the duration as the second. But let's apply walking bass lines now to swing and rock for solo guitar arrangements.įirst, to those of you new to this, swing eighths are changing a pair of straight eighth notes (or rock eighth's ) into three eighth notes (a triplet) with the first two tied. This week's topic: *Implications of simultaneous melody with bass lines for solo guitar in standard tuning scored in Tabledit.*Ĭhet Atkins tonic-note to dominant-note 1-5 bass lines were a significant step forward for solo guitar, and indeed are still the valid appropriate bass lines for many songs and song styles, among these are bluegrass and polka. 6/27/10 Tabledit users suggestion from Fingerstyle College (Steven King) ![]()
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