What is the bass?

Figured bass is a coded, abbreviation of the music notation method for the lower bass part of the musical composition. He relies on the technical knowledge of the musician about how intervals or distances between the playgrounds create harmonious chords. The chord's procedure, defined as a combined sound of two or more music notes, is one of the most important structural backbone music. The absence of a detailed record of the fistalized bass also relies on the ability of the musician to improvise support for the melody and the upper height section of the composition. This was called "Basso Contino", which is translated into continuous bass in Italian. Another term for the figured bass in English is "Phocesbass". Contino Baroque compositions usually consisted of the group of the indefinite tools for playing backup bass music according to the soloists introduced. This archaic system of notation is rarely seen in modern notes, but the remains are evident in the names of stringed guitar chords and in the records of academic music.

The music scale consists of seven recurring intervals-C-D-E-F-G-A-B-plus half the tones between them represented by the well-known pattern of black keys on the piano. The main chord in the root position consists of any note marked from the first interval in combination with its third and fifth intervals. We count letters as numbers, chord c-major is therefore C+E+g. The scale is repeated, allowing you to play the same chord as E+G+C - the first plus its third and sixth intervals. This is referred to as a chord c-major in its first inverse position.

Shorthand code of the figured bass in notes uses these numery values ​​for intervals. Traditional bass staff of five lines and four spaces are written as a simple sequence of individual notes, but are annotated by numbers to mark compatible intervals. Note accompanied by number 6 defines 1 inversion. Notation 6/4 indicates 2 inverse position-cope, plus its fourth and sixth interval, orG+C+E for C-Major. The annotation of random brands-sharps, Flats and Naturals-reports to adjust the half-tone interval, resulting in smaller or extended chords such as C+E-Flat+G for C-minor.

The bass section has a unique purpose to accompany most pieces of music. It provides melodies of choral harmony. Walking, walking, marching or punctuation rhythms. It is completely variable and dependent on the effect or tone and the style of music to be achieved. Rather than a difficult transcript of notes, many musicians appreciate the abbreviation of the Chord Structure and the process of playing for the intended effect.

instruments musicians with the ability to play chord in different fingertips also appreciate the basic technique of notation with figured bass. As in the case of a piano, such as a numerical translation often comes naturally from early learning - thumb, first finger, second, etc. Guitar chords carry numerical and random, assigning their names to indicate inverse positions and more or subtractiveintervals. The traditional record for academics of music theory uses a combination of Roman numerals and integers to analyze the progression of chords.