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37.5Now create a bass cell

Try this practice pattern:

  • C on beat 1
  • G on 2&
  • upper C on beat 3
  • G on 4&

Think:

root – fifth – octave – fifth

with syncopated placement.

This is a practice groove, not a claim that there is only one canonical calypso bass pattern.