Bass Lines *Any Style* with Just 2 Notes (for Beginners)

So, if I walk up five stairs I get to the fifth step.

If I walk DOWN fours steps I get to the fifth.

PHYSICS DESTROYED !!!

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Nah, it’s relativity… different observers can experience different outcomes… if you start from a C and then play the G below, it’s a fifth for you, but for the G you come from a fourth above!!

Hrmph, I hope Science Josh approves!?!? :wink:

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Relativity’? Einstein never thought about this and he played the violin!!

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Well, he did… he was just confused because violins are tuned in fifths and basses in fourths :scream:

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I would think of it as a spiral staircase where one full turn consists of 7 treads.
If you look on it from above, you will be on the same position if you go up 4 treads or down 3 treads, only a full turn apart :slight_smile:

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Now I am getting dizzy :grin:

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All these numbers are making me thirsty for a 6 pack.

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Nah, just physics inverted :slight_smile:

it makes more sense if you think about going up first. Start on the root, go up to the fifth. Now go up a fourth. You’re at the octave, yay! Ok now go back down a fourth.

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This Is why you should always take the elevator.

Of course, if you want to get to the first floor you press “L”, not “1”.

Another conundrum…

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L, 1, 0…it’s all about conventions. Can be tricky, taking an elevator :sweat_smile:

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It works on this staircase:
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Doh !

That reminds of the time I had a ten minute fall down the up escalator…:upside_down_face:

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90% of the time 5ths are perfect ALL the time! Lol

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3:55 Point to Josh for using one of the most perfectly ad-libbed lines in movie history (and from one of my favorite movies)

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