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Alternating-Bass Demo John Henry
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A simple alternating bass-line, then adding a simple treble melody using the first line of the traditional tune John Henry.
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Traditional acoustic guitar styles
I'm trying to use audio in conjunction with tabs I've done to better explain playing traditional fingerstyle guitar.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #196
Peak in subgenre #60
Author
Traditional
Uploaded
January 15, 2007
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MP3 1.3 MB • 128 kbps • 1:24
Story behind the song
Demo for someone learning alternating-bass style
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Practice really is the key element to separating your bass-line (thumb mostly) from your treble-lines. When playing an alternating-bass (bass-line only) kind of think... 1-and-2-and-1-and-2-and-1-and-2..... your thumb playing alternating bass notes on each beat. In a simple single-alternation bass-line (a bass-line only, using only two strings) the same string will be played on the numbers and the other string will be played on the "and"s. Tale a simple chord... G=320033. It would be played... [code] -------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------------------------- ---0------0-----0----0-----0---- -------------------------------- 3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3- 1-and-2-and-1-and-2-and-1-and-2- [/code] -------0---3-----3---------3------0------0---3----------------------- --3----------------------------------3------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- -------0---------0------0------0-----0-------0------0------0------0-- --------------------------------------------------------------------- --3--------3--------3------3------3-----3-------3-------3------3----- (-1---and--2---and--1-and--2-and--1--and-2--and-1--and--2-and--1-and-) WHEN JOHN HEN--RY------- WAS-----A---- BA---BY................... ---3---3-------3----1-------0------------------------- -----------------------------------3---------------- ---------------------------------------------------- -------0-------0-------0-------0-------0------0----- ---------------------------------------------------- ---3-------3-------3-------3-------3-------3------3- (--2--and--1--and--2--and--1--and--2--and--1-and--2- SIT--TIN' ON HIS MAM--MY'S------KNEE----------------
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