Susan Bass says that this year's Earth Day will be a busy one in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

So here's what we find, and as you can see there -is this bass rhythm moving slowly or quickly?

那么,大家能看到,这个低音节奏是缓慢还是迅速

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Reggae? Yeah. It's just very rhythmic, a lot of bass. So it's like groaning.

雷鬼舞？很有韵律，有许多低音。很像呻吟声。

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Deftones' friend Sergio Vega is playing bass in Cheng's absence.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

That's the melody and we're going to sing beneath-- we're going to sing Beethoven's bass beneath Beethoven's melody.

这是这段音乐的旋律，我们接着要唱旋律下面的部分-,我们要唱贝多芬旋律下面的低音部分。

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The track "Ebb and Flow." featuring Tia's friend and mentor Christian McBride on bass, taps into her philosophical nature.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

And these can be checked out at the Bass Library that's on the cross campus.

你们可以到对面的,巴斯图书馆登记领取

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So, there's the melody up above, this bassoon playing the counterpoint, kind of in the middle, and then the bass playing these notes quietly underneath.

然后,旋律在上面,这支巴松管来演奏对位,基本上在中间,而低音提琴在底下悄悄地演奏这些音符

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I've put it in the key-- what's called the bass clef here-- and it's in a major key.

我已经标好了调性,这个叫低音谱号,它采用的是大调

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And then we'll see exactly what it is that he's doing here so we're going to try to lock in on the bass.

现在我们来听一下这首歌究竟是什么样的，然后我们来尝试专攻它的低音部分。

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Our brain has got all that stuff coming in there and we're probably focusing a lot on the bass and "Boom, boom, " the tuba that's playing there.

我们的大脑收集了所有听到的信息,而且可能更专注与低音部分,以及大号发出的"邦 邦"声

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It's the bass because it's organizing itself very strongly in duple patterns.

是低音,因为低音非常明确地以二拍子的方式组成

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So, I think if we said we've got melody, we've got theme, we've got bass, we've got a bunch of other stuff in the middle, that's just fine and dandy.

那么,如果说我们听到了旋律,听到主题,听到低音部,听到中间有一堆别的东西,就算令人满意了

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Somebody's up there going and it's actually the bass so we'll be wanting to zero in on the bass in a big way in music because that's oftentimes giving us much more information than the melody.

有些人在那唱,事实上那是低音,所以我们在音乐中,主要将注意力集中到低音上,因为大多数情况下,相比旋律而言,低音给我们的信息更多

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So let's listen to a track here, a sax solo and I am going to try to keep-- make some sense out of this-- because it gets more and more complex-- by following the electric bass underneath so let's listen to an old tape.

那么我们听一下这段音轨,一段萨克斯独奏,我会尽量从中,理出一些头绪,因为我们的音乐片段会越来越复杂,大家可以跟着底下电贝斯的节奏,好的,我们来一下老磁带

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Of course, it's in minor and the voices will come in, but the bass is going, sort of plodding along in a basic duple but with a triple subdivision underneath of that.

当然,它是小调的,人声将会进入,但低音是这样,按基本的二拍子缓慢地行进,但在那下面还用了一个三连音的节奏细分

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I don't know whether it's easier for gentlemen or not because our voices are sort of in the bass, but maybe this is payback time since ladies are always singing the melody.

我不知道是否男人更容易唱出低声部，因为我们的嗓音本来就低，不过这也可能是女士们报复的时间到了，她们总是得唱旋律。

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What's the bass doing?

低音起什么作用

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You can never--there's a strong legal precedent for not being able to make a claim about stolen bass, because these basses are limited in number, they involve rather simple harmonic progressions, and they've been used over the centuries.

可是你绝对不可能起诉别人抄袭低音部，这个强有力的法律判例，因为低音部的选择很有限，他们由很简单的和声进程组成，几个世纪以来一直在反复使用。

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We're not going to get into that 'cause that takes us into heavy-duty music theory, but it's--if we don't have root position then we've got some other note of the triad in the bass, and we've got some kind of chord inversion, so that's what that particular term means up there.

我们就不深究这个问题了，这是一个冗长的音乐理论，但是如果没有了原位，三和弦的低音被另一个音所替代，这就是一种和弦转位，这就是这个词在这里的意思。

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