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    Default Bass arpeggios

    As a bass player, I would find it very useful to have bass arpeggio fingering for the current chord displayed. Instead of the piano chord fingering. To the development team, please consider adding this feature.

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    Wouldn't that be great. Of course it would probably be different from upright to bass guitar.

    The founder of iReal is a bass player .
    It's more thin one parameter like a piano or woodwind . You may need to take into account the previous and next chord to get the right fingerings.
    Last edited by Bobsax; 02-20-2016 at 07:24 PM.
    Don't post a playlist as the songs in a Realbook if the changes aren't from the book.
    If you do transcribe changes from a book put it in the title RB1, RB2, GGB, Sher, etc

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    One bass feature I've been hoping for -- although apparently I'm alone in this -- is the ability to select bass notes from B0 to G4 with the chords. E.g.:
    Amaj7/A1 /B1 /C#2 /E2
    Amaj7/A2 /G#2 /F#2 /E2
    I think it would help with intonation on a fretless fingerboard to be able to build playalongs with specific bass notes like this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nimbleswitch View Post
    One bass feature I've been hoping for -- although apparently I'm alone in this -- is the ability to select bass notes from B0 to G4 with the chords. E.g.:
    Amaj7/A1 /B1 /C#2 /E2
    Amaj7/A2 /G#2 /F#2 /E2
    I think it would help with intonation on a fretless fingerboard to be able to build playalongs with specific bass notes like this.
    Have you tried exporting the midi file to a sequencer (GB, DAW or whatever), then transpose the various notes down an octave for you to practice with. I know the drums might not map well, but something like GarageBand (or similar) have drum loops you can add in its place.

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    I play the upright bass. And I really like the idea of including a chord note font for walking. At the very least it would be great to see the 3, 5, 7. But I'd love to see the extensions - perhaps in a different color- too. Inclusion of extensions would reveal the entire scale for each chord.

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    Default Bass arpeggios

    I think bass arpeggios would be a great feature! It's sometimes difficult to know what notes to outline, especially with the extensions. A bass fretboard chart would be great.

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    As a bass player - I agree. This is a great tool, but being able to see what the bass is doing in the background would be very useful for learning.

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    I wonder what styles are the best for bass arpeggios ?
    Don't post a playlist as the songs in a Realbook if the changes aren't from the book.
    If you do transcribe changes from a book put it in the title RB1, RB2, GGB, Sher, etc

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    I agree, as a bass player that would be a great feature to have. Thanks.

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