If you can't hear the root (bass note) in your head, that would certainly make things difficult. I don't know how to teach that.
Do you have a bass? Might be one way to try.

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So often - I can play along with the lead sheet and feel like I can potentially sound pretty good - but then never get them to the point where they are in me permanently....


I don't know if they are ever permanent.
Especially as you get older. <grin>

Example: Walk This Way .. played it many times with many bands (and many renditions) .. but I'd need a few minutes to remember it on guitar right now.

Then again I could probably sit down and write out 6 Wives of Henry the 8th about 90% accurate without touching an instrument.
Weird, now that I think of it.


Last edited by rharv; 01/20/19 08:31 AM.
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