Beautiful Practice: Diatonic triads in an open position through the Diatonic Cycle
Who knew music theory exercises can sound so Bach-esque and pretty?
In this episode of Talking Technique on notreble.com I explain:
- what diatonic means
- what diatonic triads are
- what I mean by “diatonic cycle”
- and then I demonstrate this in all areas of the bass according to the Pattern System.
I just love the way it sounds. And, it is a killer workout for your right hand as well as left. PDF provided. I am using a TC Electronic delay pedal and Wolf used a sweet plugin to create the sound that sounds like a violin pad in the beginning. Is all bass, though 🙂
Check out the minor variety of this practice as well. This episode made a favorites list on notreble.com, so I decided to repeat it in minor.
Enjoy!
And yes, that is a notreble beanie. I love it. It is soooooo soft!
- Bass: Votan by Marleaux
- Strings: Dean Markley SR 2000
- Amplification: TC Electronic
- Fretwrap by GruvGear
- Audio postproduction: wolftrackaudio.com
4 Replies to “Beautiful Practice: Diatonic Triads in open position”
If your arcleits are always this helpful, “I’ll be back.”
Haha, Emmly, I see what you did there 😉
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This _is_ beautiful. Where can I find the notation/instructions? The pdf link is a 404.
Hi Ari.
Unfortunately the link to the pdf does not seem to work anymore. Is there any way to get it.
CU, Mel.