Socorro - you must let me know if trying to adopt bass patterns works. Do you find there are "standard" patterns?

What I've seen from my music books is that the bass lines seem not to be standardised, which is frustrating to say the least. I guess I should relate piano bass clef to playing chords on guitar for accompaniment to singing, but again, duh, I fail to spot any real similarity.

Hence the dust on the piano and the fingermarks all over the guitar!

Cheers, Terry