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The strong presence of a bass line — repetitive and/or sequenced — was initially used as a means to mark and clarify harmonic progression. Over time it became in many genres an end in itself. Most often it is created using electronic instruments or procedures, such as beat boxes, arpeggiators and synthesized bass. It is also commonly combined with layers of keyboards, or “pads“, which are in most cases heavily laden with reverberation. In electroacoustics, a pronounced bass line distinguishes itself not uncommonly by a more or less evident dichotomy between the bass — which maintains its strong presence — and the accompanying musical discourse, which may not necessarily be “harmonic”. |
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