Bass Guitar For Dummies®, 3rd Edition by Patrick Pfeiffer Will Lee and David Letterman

Author:Patrick Pfeiffer, Will Lee and David Letterman [Pfeiffer, Patrick, Lee, Will and Letterman, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118748749
Published: 2014-02-20T15:56:58+00:00

Simplifying a groove

At times, you may want to simplify a groove, giving it more space by eliminating some of the notes. This task seems easy at first glance, but it's actually a real challenge. After all, you need to choose the notes that keep the integrity of the original groove intact. Take out the wrong ones, and the groove becomes unrecognizable.

Figure 6-24 and Track 49 give you several examples of how to proceed. Make sure you refresh your ear by listening to the original bass groove of “Come Together” (The Beatles’ version). Then go ahead and experiment with Figure 6-24a (at the start of the track), which is a pared down version of the same groove. It consists of only the groove skeleton, the groove apex, and the one-note groove tail of the original groove. The transitional notes between the groove skeleton and the groove apex are gone, and the groove tail is in its simplest version.

Figure 6-24: Different pared down variations of “Come Together.”

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