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    DON’T FRET

    Nov 09, 2021 3 minutes

    Hello again! As you no doubt know, tuneable instruments such as bass guitars abide by a tuning system known as ‘equal temperament’. This simply means that we slice up an octave into 12 equal portions, which we call semitones. This widely adopted system is the basis for the majority of the music heard in the Western world. Why? Well, the most convenient part of this system is that any arrangement of intervals

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