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I am teaching my roommate to play bass. When I am strumming chords on a guitar I just have him hit the single note equivalent. So if I am strumming a C#m B A B pattern, what should he pluck when I am strumming C#M?

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C#.

 

The most simplistic bassline is one that plays the roots of each chord. If your progression is C#m, B, A, B, then the bassline would be the notes C#, B, A, B.

 

Basslines can obviously be more complex than that, but in many situations, that's all that's needed to create a complete bassline.

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hey thanks. That was what I had assumed, but thought maybe a loud c# and a loud C#m might clash.

 

 

C#m is made up of the following notes: C#, E, and G#. The root of the chord is always the same as the letter name of the chord, so the note C# is the root of a C#m chord.

 

You might slightly confused by the nomenclature for major chord. A C# major chord is often written just as an upper case "C#." The notes that make up a C# major chord are C#, E#, and G#. The only difference between major and minor in this case is what kind of E is in the chord (E natural or E#). Both C# major and C# minor have the note C# as the root, and since the bass player only plays a single note and only plays the root, there will be no clash at all.

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