{"id":615,"date":"2025-04-28T14:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2025-04-28T15:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:01:03","slug":"adding-bass-note-to-strum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/adding-bass-note-to-strum\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Bass Note to Strum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1052104704?h=a40f186548\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"    allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this video I add a bass pattern to the accompiament of &#8220;Waltzing Matilda&#8221;. I use all downstrokes in this example, but you could just as well use down-up strokes.<br \/>\nThe initial pattern is <b>Bass-Strum-Strum-Strum<\/b> (1-2-3-4). I then introduce  variations like this: <b>Bass-mute-Strum-Strum<\/b>, and <b>Bass-mute-Strum-mute<\/b>. &#8220;Bass-mute&#8221; and &#8220;Strum-mute&#8221; actually amounts to holding the note for two beats.<\/p>\n<p>Adding Bass notes to your playing can make it more interesting. Give it a try. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video I add a bass pattern to the accompiament of &#8220;Waltzing Matilda&#8221;. I use all downstrokes in this example, but you could just as well use down-up strokes. The initial pattern is Bass-Strum-Strum-Strum (1-2-3-4). I then introduce variations like this: Bass-mute-Strum-Strum, and Bass-mute-Strum-mute. &#8220;Bass-mute&#8221; and &#8220;Strum-mute&#8221; actually amounts to holding the note for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,51,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chords-plus","category-guitar-songs","category-guitar-tips","category-playalong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}