One good way to get started is look at walking bass lines. To get from C to F, for instance, walk from C to E to F. O, C, G, F#, F.

Listen to traditional groove organ player...Jimmy Smith, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Joey D and lots of others.

Diki hit the nail on the head. A real bass player (either on keyboards or other bass note generating device) can retard the tempo between chord changes, effect breaks between changes...lots of thinks the auto bass function is not programmed to do until the current chord, from which the computer operates, is fingered.

I have often turned everything off except the drum breaks, which I operate with the Ketron pedal board. Mostly, I stop the drum track, which turns off the auto bass, and finish with left handed bsss endings. Same thing for intros.

Sure breaks up the monotony of the two endings and intros programmed into the machine.

When I get bored, I go to the instrument storage area, and pick a keyboard (sometimes a drum machine) and a guitar I haven't used for a while.

Right now, when I go out, I am partial to using an ?SD-5 for drums and a Hammond SKS (I think) on top for Hammond draw bar sound, left handed bass...it even has a great Rhodes sound.

A few weeks ago, I put a melodica on the right, over a Roland synth and used a tube with mouthpiece into an old high impedance Shure 585. Finding a cord, which screws into the bsse of the microphone and has a 1/4" on the other end is a bear.

For performers, using a left-handed bass line, even sparingly, does a lot to make for more engaging performances.

Even after all these years, MUSIC IS FABULOUS!

Play on, friends,

Russ