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PLAY CHORDAL FINGERSTYLE

ello! I’m honored to be filling in for Rich Brown this month. It’s certainly nice to be back and stretching my advanced techniques muscles again. For this month’s column I thought it would be useful to cover the chordal fingerstyle technique. This isn’t something that you’ll require in most conventional playing situations, but it’s a great way to learn to apply harmonic/chordal ideas on the bass. As we bass players don’t play a traditionally chordal instrument, I consider this a great way to stretch our understanding of chords and

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