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A little musical help would be appreciated. I have a nice BIAB arrangement of Grant Green's Idle Moments that I play along with. However, I would like to reduce the arrangement to just bass & drums.

My question, how do I create that nice harmony line of the opening chord progression (Cm, CmMaj7, Cm7, Cm6)with just the bass part? Any ideas would be welcome.

Thanks

Frank



You could try forcing Pedal Bass with use of slash chords to yield the descending bassline that follows the extensions of the Cm chord:

Cm - CmMaj7/B - Cm7/Bb - Cm6/A

It may sound cleaner in some instances to ignore the extensions in the upper chord voices, yielding a simpler arrangement where only the Bass does the cascading line:

Cm - Cm/B - Cm/Bb - Cm/A

Slash chords can be used to force the Bass to any note.


--Mac

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