YoungCrocket
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Hi everyone, I'm somewhat new to producing and I have a question pertaining to chord progressions and bass. I like to make chill-step, so I often utilize LFO bass under piano and cello chord progressions. I used to just stick to chords in root position and have the bass-line mirror the root notes of each chord throughout the progression. Recently, I've been playing around with inversions. I've read some theory on doubling bass under chord progressions that instructs me to always double the root when in root position, double the third or root in first inversions, and double the fifth in second inversions. The problem is, whenever I use a fifth or third in my bass-line it usually sounds very dissonant. I am going to keep trying until I figure it out but is it even ok to use the root note of a chord for a bass-line when the chord is in it's second inversion? Sorry for the long ambiguous post, I guess I'm just looking for some guidance here. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.