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Building a rock groove

Once you have achieved a degree of comfort and control of time you can begin to use these different patterns to build a rock groove, simply by moving the octave shape to different bass root notes.

Sometimes it is enough to just transfer across the same rhythm. Often a pattern is repeated over and over to help create a rock groove.

Take a quick look at each bar and you will see that bars 1 and 3 use the A shape and bars 2 and 4 use the G shape. As always watch, listen and then play along with the multimedia files.

Exercise 3

Next: Developing use of octave shapes for G and A

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