Thinking in Groove
An interactive, piano-score-based book on how musicians design bass lines through harmony, motion, and time — the companion to Thinking in Layers, with the left hand as the bass and the right hand as its context.
Thinking in Groove is an interactive, piano-score-based book about how musicians understand and design bass lines. The left hand is the bass; the right hand makes its harmonic and rhythmic context audible.
Just as Thinking in Layers teaches harmony through superimposed musical layers, Thinking in Groove organizes each decision as Role → Motion → Groove → Interaction → Design — forty chapters and over 160 canonical grand-staff examples, each with independent full/bass/harmony playback.