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Ari and Josh Cohen livestream discussing Josh's new 10-week practice group: Fantastic Fingerstyle Funk Bass! First class starts Tuesday at 11AM Pacific on Nov. 1st. Sign up now!
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Ari and Josh Cohen livestream discussing Josh's new 10-week practice group: Fantastic Fingerstyle Funk Bass! First class starts Tuesday at 11AM Pacific on Nov. 1st. Sign up now!
arisbassblog.com/practice-groups/josh-cohen-famous-fingerstyle-bass-lines




![Odd Meter Made Easy!
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Oddly enough this trick will make feeling a 7/8 rhythm much less difficult.
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https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2022/10/25/talking-technique-chromatic-groove-in-7-8/
Transcription:
The seven is kind of jarring you know, every time you expect the downbeat to come a little later than it does. So it kind of throws you when the downbeat shows up an eighth note early. But in that tune the bell of the drums goes straight through so every other bar is coinciding with the downbeat of that bell and the other bar in between is coinciding with the upbeat of that bell and that creates a much more calming overall feeling. 6....7...
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As you were seeing, I was trying to mark out with my body the bars where the downbeat is and the bars where the upbeat coincides with the metronome. iI just feels like you fall into this rhythm of every other bar
00:00 Introduction to Odd Meters like 7/8
00:26 The downbeat vs the click
00:45 Feeling it in your body
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