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10-03-2018, 09:28 AM
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Picking bass note on beat two?
When playing a slow version of Freebird I realize that I pick the bass note on beat two...
1- 2- 3- 4 down - bass note - down - down/up G D Em If I leave here tomorrow, F C D Would you still remember me G D Em For I must be travelin' on now F C D Cause there's too many places I've got to see I am very familiar with boom/chuck and use it alot but the bass note(s) are always on beats 1 and 3. Anyone else ever do this or a variation of this? 
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10-04-2018, 04:35 AM
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10-05-2018, 07:30 PM
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10-06-2018, 08:49 AM
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Well, not quite. Just avoiding beat 1 doesn't mean they play on beats 2 and 4 all the time.  In any case, they often do play beat 1 - they just treat the bass more like a melody instrument than one responsible for marking the main beats, as it tends to be treated in western music. That other Caribbean island, Cuba, has a similar off-beat attitude to bass, where they often do avoid beat 1, by syncopating it forward to beat 4 of the previous bar. Where reggae bass is melodic, "tumbao" bass is designed to emulate a drum.
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10-06-2018, 08:01 PM
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10-09-2018, 04:55 PM
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Such simple chords that I had tried several different ways to add some bass notes or walk up/downs. Nothing sounded right. Somehow my final version that I play has a bass note pick for each chord on what seems like beat two only. Thanks for all the replies...
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