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The 8th rest

The 8th rest

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The 8th rest

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- [Instructor] All right, moving on to eighth rests. So much importance of a baseline is in how long each note lasts, and eighth rests are just a simple way that you can just stop the note for half of a beat. It really gives more life to any baseline. A lot of times, playing with a drummer, you're lining your notes with what the kick drum is doing, and then maybe resting for the snare. So this is really going to allow you way more dynamic range and more breadth of your baseline. Let's check out a few ways to do this. If you're playing from an open note and you need to rest, then you can just stop the note with your right hand like this. If you're going from a fretted note, you can do it actually two different ways. You can either just take your finger off slightly, so that it's still sort of muting the string. Or you can actually just put the other fingers down to mute the note. So let's try a few different ways. In this next example, we're going to start out with a steady stream of…

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