Please help a melodically trained musician write the first rhythm bass line! After writing a new blues melody, 12 bar and AAB, I used a very simple I, IV, V, four quarters to each bar. The second version of line A is higher and harmonizes with line A, sounding good with I, IV, V, I... but it seems more interesting to invert the progression going down, from I, three and one half steps down to the IV, down one step to the IV, and back up to octave I.
The next line is IV, V, I, I an octave higher, for line B.
Is this wrong, or just unorthodox? There is no "wrong".
There are a million laws for music theory - even when considering the blues ...
But the one rule that always supercedes all of that is:
If it sounds good, it *IS* good. |
