How to Write a BASS Line with Harmony • Music Theory from GoGo Penguin "Everything Is Going to Be OK"

<p> </p><div class="video-container size_xl justify_center" style=""><iframe data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="ong7tXV5Dp0" data-video-thumb-url="" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ong7tXV5Dp0?rel=0&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span class="text-huge"><strong>How to Write a BASS Line with Harmony</strong></span></h2><h2 style="text-align:center;"> </h2><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><h2 style="text-align:center;"><meta charset="utf-8"></h2><h3 style="text-align:center;" dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-d4eaa6be-7fff-7f27-d643-6372b0af010d"><span class="text-huge" style="color:#000000;"><strong>Step 1. Low</strong></span></h3><p style="text-align:justify;" dir="ltr"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;" dir="ltr"><span style="color:#000000;">Harmony is when two or more notes are played together. And sadly, it’s rare to hear harmony in a bass line. The word “line” is actually used to convey the fact that it’s a melody, not a harmony. That’s how rare harmony is on the bass!</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;" dir="ltr"><span style="color:#000000;">You see, most producers think the bass frequencies are too low to play harmony. In other words, if you play two notes together, it’ll sound like a rumbling mess. But, that’s not true. That only happens when the two notes are close to each other. For example, if your root note is a low A, and you play a D above that. It doesn’t sound very nice if you play the D that’s five semitones above the A. But, if you play the D an octave higher, so it’s now 17 semitones above the A, it sounds absolutely beautiful!</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;" dir="ltr"><span style="color:#000000;">Alright, so now we know how to successfully add harmony to a bass line, however, we don’t yet have a bass line to add it to. So, step 1 is to write a cool one-bar rhythm on the root note. And we’re using A natural minor. Then, copy and paste that rhyt