Guitar Techniques

Walking basslines

In this last series article from his Beyond Chord Melody book Martin Taylor looks at combining 10ths, 7ths and bass movement.

When we started this journey, we broke things down into a skeleton which included only the essential parts of chords: root and 10th, and root and 7th. When we combine the root, 10th and 7th into one voicing, we arrive at block chord

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