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rus/2 Beat Outro. Let’s get started.

Here’s what the intro looks like - the bass acts almost as a counterpoint or countermelody to the guitar line:

That leads straight to Verse 1:

The next tutorial we’re going to look is the main parts of the bass line to La Bamba by Los Lobos.

Now this is pretty straightfor-ward, but there’s some nice variations of note choice and rhythm in the various sections that are worth checking out. We’re going to look at 5 sections: the intro, Verse 1,Verse 2, the Guitar Solo and the Outro Cho-

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In turn that leads straight to Verse 2:


Verse 3 is a short verse - 8 bars long- and you can use the first 8 bars of Verse 1 for this. This leads straight into the solo:


And finally we’ve got the final verse and the outro chorus and the two beat ending: The verse repeats material we’ve already looked at - here’s the outro chorus and the two beat ending:


HOW TO PROGRAM THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS IN BAND IN A BOX

1. Set the key to C

2. Aim for a performance tempo of 150 BPM

3. Choose a style to play with. For a band style, I used the Rockabilly Rock And Roll Band Real tracks (but muted the piano). And there’s also the chordal metronome built into BIAB 2015 and 2016.

4. Mute the bass.

Here’s what the intro would look like when programmed:

Here’s what the first verse would look like:


Different verses would be extremely similar with just variations of bar length. Here for example is the solo when programmed:

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