Sentence examples for root notes from inspiring English sources

The bassist Ben Williams bounced on the root notes.

Bill Evans's chords, nearly all fascinating and unmoored by the expected root notes, motored along in muted drift.

The music vamps around two root notes, rolling along and picking up hitchhikers: a small piano phrase, a bit of vocalese, a conga part.

Also, the duo has no bass player, even though hearing a few root notes would make their short, catchy songs easier to follow.

An A-minor and G gave the same results, and on the strength of that he began to whittle away in C. I picked up the nylon and strummed off of his root notes.

Many people who say they don't really like gin do like this one, the major difference with a more traditional London dry being beefed-up angelica and orris root notes with hints of violets, and a spicy finish carried home by nutmeg and cassia bark.

He doesn't do classic root note bass playing, he's slightly more groovy.

A guitar rises up in a distorted swell, following the chords closely, playing the root note of each one.

The songs were fast, the drums were rattly, the bass plugged away on the root note, and the buzzsaw guitar was the sort that Buzzcocks and early Penetration would use.

When, over a few early bars in "untitled 01|8.19.2014," Lamar announces, "this was the final calling / no birds chirping or flying, no dogs barking / we all nervous and crying, moving in caution / and disbelief, our belief's the reason for all this," he accentuates the last syllable of each line with a half­-sung bass-echoing root note.

And then much of the band emptied out, such that you could hear the bassists at length, alternating their roles, one holding down the root note while the other soloed melodically and percussively, then vice versa; then in a blurred crisscross.