This sounds great. Can you help us understand the music theory behind it so we can figure what notes other than chord tones will sound good? You've called out the key: is C minor. It seems whether that's C aeolian, C dorian or C phyrigian the other chords don't fall into anything diatonic as best I can tell.
I think if you’re going for just bass the theory isn’t as important in regards to the mode. Not saying theory isn’t important but just bass focus and knowing the notes I’ve found using your techniques such as ghost notes or octave hoping can really add some flavor to your groves.
You are correct that this is not a diatonic progression which is common in minor keys. This progression uses chords from both C Harmonic and Jazz/Melodic minor scales. Generally progressions in minor key's can freely use chords from the natural, harmonic, and jazz minor scales. This gives you i - ii˚ - ii - ♭III - iv - IV - v - V - ♭VI - ♭vi - vi˚ - ♭VII - VII - vii˚ as available triads of any given minor key. So this progression is a i - IV7 - bVI - V7 in Cm Although in C minor, the F7 gives the progression a sense of modulating from Bb Major to C minor. Because a dominant chord implies a resolution to the tonic, Cm - F7 - Ab sounds like a ii - V - bVII in Bb Major. Abmaj7 is the pivot chord: in Bb Major it is an extension of the V7 chord before it resolves to I and in C minor it is a bVI that chromatically descends to the V(G7). The only scale that fits over all these chords is C minor pentatonic, however different scales can be played over different bars. For example you could play the Bb Major or C minor Jazz scale over Cm7 - F7. You could play Bb Major Pentatonic over the first 3 bars. You could play C harmonic minor over the third fourth and first bars. it just depends on how what tonality you want to emphasize and how you want to link the chords together
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This sounds great. Can you help us understand the music theory behind it so we can figure what notes other than chord tones will sound good? You've called out the key: is C minor. It seems whether that's C aeolian, C dorian or C phyrigian the other chords don't fall into anything diatonic as best I can tell.
I think if you’re going for just bass the theory isn’t as important in regards to the mode. Not saying theory isn’t important but just bass focus and knowing the notes I’ve found using your techniques such as ghost notes or octave hoping can really add some flavor to your groves.
You are correct that this is not a diatonic progression which is common in minor keys. This progression uses chords from both C Harmonic and Jazz/Melodic minor scales. Generally progressions in minor key's can freely use chords from the natural, harmonic, and jazz minor scales. This gives you i - ii˚ - ii - ♭III - iv - IV - v - V - ♭VI - ♭vi - vi˚ - ♭VII - VII - vii˚ as available triads of any given minor key. So this progression is a i - IV7 - bVI - V7 in Cm
Although in C minor, the F7 gives the progression a sense of modulating from Bb Major to C minor. Because a dominant chord implies a resolution to the tonic, Cm - F7 - Ab sounds like a ii - V - bVII in Bb Major. Abmaj7 is the pivot chord: in Bb Major it is an extension of the V7 chord before it resolves to I and in C minor it is a bVI that chromatically descends to the V(G7).
The only scale that fits over all these chords is C minor pentatonic, however different scales can be played over different bars. For example you could play the Bb Major or C minor Jazz scale over Cm7 - F7. You could play Bb Major Pentatonic over the first 3 bars. You could play C harmonic minor over the third fourth and first bars. it just depends on how what tonality you want to emphasize and how you want to link the chords together