7 seconds away Step Bass, Pedal Bass

Seven seconds away - N'Dour, Cherry
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wqCpjFMvz-k


It is written if F sharp minor 3rd usually called just minor.


F# G# A B C# D E F#


Ie all F, G, C are sharp just like its relative the A major scale.


Bass goes:


F#
E
D#
D


And what could be simpler and so much better sounding than keeping the right hand the same throughout. Ie


F# bass with F# A C#
E bass with F# A C#
D# bass with F# A C#
D bass with F# A C#


So it is step bass going down with other voices being pedal or constant to F# A C# or the F# minor 3rd chord. Same technique as Beginning of Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven or Adagio - Albinoni, Giazotto.


This inteligent technique of keeping chords the same while bass going downwards step by step creates amazingly sounding prepared intervals such as:
D bass F# A C#


which is the beautiful sounding chord of
D major 3rd major 7th


The technique can for example be seen or heard on Dido and Aeneas - Henry Purcell at the last choir and solo sections.


Seven seconds away after a few iterations modules to B minor. A sustained or pedal F sharp at melody while bass goes down again step by step creates the G# major 3rd minor 7th which leads to the final modulation of C sharp minor. Then the high note G# is pedal (played continuously) at 1/8ths creating with step down bass the intervals of major 6th and then major 7th with 3rd added [Bach]. The thirds happen to be major thirds as the bass code C to B6 to A7 means since C sharp minor has all C, D, F, G sharp. So code translates to C# bass and C# E G#, B bass and B D# G#, A bass and A C# E G#. Ie C# minor 3rd, B major 3rd major 6th, A major 3rd major 7th. Similarly to Old and Wise - Alan Parsons Project in A minor.


Solo violin begining back at the F minor scale plays all sorts of 9th intervals with respect to bass and then again when the song modulates to B minor a sustain F sharp on violin creates all sort of fantastic intervals leading again to chorus at the key of C sharp minor.


Pop symphonic music songwriting at its best.


Johann Sebastian Bach would possibly be proud.


See also:


Bach bass rules
https://normanschmidt.net/scores/bachjs-general_bass_rules.pdf


Harmony - Piston