If we reverse the order of chord and bass notes from Examples 1 and 2 ... which set this up as some kind of C# minor. The B, ...

The brief visit to a happy place is welcome because the rest of the song is ferocious and foreboding, three chords in a minor key, driven by a hooky and hi-fidelity bass line upon which are placed ...

Most sus chords are placed around major or minor chords – as we’ve done here ... and we’re emphasising the idea by picking a ...

It is noteworthy that no chords were played during ... that constantly moving Loomis bass. There’s a lot going on here! In ...

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Although they played together for less than a year, James Brown became somewhat of a father figure to bassist Bootsy Collins, ...

The lowest note on in the chord is (typically) the one which determines the overall letter of a chord. So, in an E minor for example, the bass note of that chord (on a guitar, this would be an open E ...

Every so often, though, we steer into stormy seas, the sudden stomach drop of a minor chord. Mortality on micro and macro levels ... third side of Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, while the driving bass on “A ...

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In this passage, there’s only the drums, a bass and his voice ... of Walt Disney’s “Cinderella,” but belting clashing chords that I know he would describe as incredibly complex: “a minor G third, with ...

On Wednesday and Thursday evenings last week, the Royal Opera House of Musical Arts presented Nishat Khan, the internationally acclaimed ...