The real work, they felt, was being done by people who knew how to play a saxophone or improvise a long melody with nothing more than a few chords and a swing beat for support.

他们认为真正有意义的工作是由另一些人来承担的：懂得演奏萨克斯的家伙，或能把一支很长的曲子拆成几个和弦外加摇摆节奏的人。

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State your ideas in a straightforward manner and you're more likely to be taken seriously, advises Melody.

梅洛迪建议使用直截了当的方式陈述观点，这样你才更有可能被认真对待。

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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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If you put in other little strands of melody, it changes it more toward polyphonic texture.

如果将之放到其他的小旋律中，将会改变对位材质。

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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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