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41.85The deeper arranging lesson
A busy bass line consumes several resources simultaneously:
- rhythmic space
- pitch space
- low-register space
- harmonic information
Therefore every additional layer must justify itself.
This leads to an important rule:
The more complete one layer becomes, the less the other layers need to say.