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Hello! I’m honoured to be filling in for Rich Brown this month. It’s certainly nice to be back and stretching my advanced techniques muscles again.
For this month’s column I thought it would be useful to cover the chordal fingerstyle technique. This isn’t something that you’ll require in most conventional playing situations, but it’s a great way to learn to apply harmonic/ chordal ideas on the bass. As we bass players don’t play a traditionally chordal instrument, I consider this a great way to stretch our understanding of chords and harmony. You’ll essentially be looking at music in a similar to way to that of a guitarist or pianist, rather than only thinking about single-note bass-lines.