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1. Bass Guitar Class Introduction: - my name's Chuck Millar, and I've built this course from the very beginning from the ground up. So if you've never played a bass before, you've never held one before. You maybe have only heard one on the radio. This course is right for you. I started the very beginning and add little bidding building blocks along the way to increase our agility, our ability to play fun things on the base in all the way until the end, until we can play successfully as a bass player. If you've never played the bass before, this course is right for you. If you started to play the bass but are lacking confidence or lacking direction, where to go to make your bass playing better? This course is right for you if you've played bass before, but you really want toe, just learn a bunch of cool stuff. This course is the right course for you. So wherever you're at in your base studies, there's something here for you. There's a lot of content to go through, and I'm excited to teach it to you. So if you're willing and you're ready, I'll see you inside
2. Introduction - Bass Guitar: my name's Chuck Millar, and I'll be your instructor through this course.
3. Bass Guitar Parts : welcome to this. Beginner base scores. Today we're gonna be learning the basics of the parts of our bass guitar. And the first thing that we have to know is that it's a base. It has four strings. Although they make guitars with more strings than four will be focused solely on the fourth string bass for this class. In a basic electric bass guitar set up, we have our bridge, our pickups, our volume control and our tone control our input, Jack, for our cable that of course, you have these strings. And so far, what we're gonna learn is some basic stuff about these strings. We have our first string, this little bitty string. The second string, the third string in the big string, is the fourth string. They'll have names later, but for right now, let's just get associated with a calling them the first during the second string, the third string and the fourth string. You also have these metal things that are raised up there called frets and ah, they're responsible for when the the note is pushed down with a finger, you can I hear that metallic sound that's the middle on the metal the string metal on the front metal, and it's important that tone later ticking sound. The's friends help us be in tune when we play. Next, we have our nut. This white thing that you see appeared. It looks almost like thes frets, but it's a different material, and it helps hold the strings up and allows our strings to vibrate. Then we have our tuning pegs. This is our head stuck and are tuning pegs. You can also call these tuning machines, and they call them tuning machines because there's a gear back here that you can't see because they're covered in that gear and their helps us be able to tune our guitar slower and more in tune. Then we would if they didn't have a gear in them. We also have the neck. The neck starts here on this bolt on neck, and the neck goes all the way up to this nut and continues on through the head stock and its bold on you can see because of these little screws in this little box, you take this little panel off and you unscrew these screws and this neck would simply just come right off. It becomes helpful to have a bolt on that for a lot of different reasons. There's different types of Nick's, um, four bases, but since this is the base that we have right now, that's what we're discovering. Okay, let's review. We have the main body of our bass guitar, the pickups, the tone control, the volume control, the bridge, our frets, thes metal things that go pinned down our first string, our second string, third string and fourth string. Our head stock, which contains our, uh, tuning pegs and our nut that raises the strings. That some other things that you're gonna need for this base course is your guitar cable is gonna plug in from your input on your base. On the other end is going to go to the input on your bass AMP. If you find that you can't get your hands on a bass AMP. And you have to use a guitar, amp no worries. There's going to be three dials. One of them will say base. One of them will say trouble, and one of them will say mids simply turned the trouble down a little bit. Your mids down a little bit and you base up a little bit, and you should be able to hear you base just fine. When you're confident about the different parts of the base and you're already and set up to go, we'll see you in the next lesson.
4. Bass Guitar Technique : welcome back, and the first thing that we're gonna learn is just some proper technique about how to hold our guitar. And typically you'll see a lot of bass players have a strap coming from this knob coming around the shoulder and then attaching to this non for aesthetics in Not to get in the way of this mike. I've decided not to wear a base strapped for this session. When you do set up your base strap, make sure that it's the same length as you feel uncomfortable sitting down in a chair as I am right now, let's get started by talking about proper technique. Now, when we talk about proper technique, I'm specifically talking about our right arm and right hand. If you're left handed. No worries. Just think about when I say the right hand. You think of the left hand and vice versa. If you are left handed, you'll have to get a left handed base, and it will simply be turned around. Since most of us who are going to be taking this course are right handed will consider that the right hand is the right hand. The left hand is the left hand But what am I going to do with this right hand? It's right hand is simply about midway through of the arm between where the wrist is and the elbow is You're going to set it down right about here on your guitar. Now, this base, the style of this base has a little bit of a fold back on it. And you can kind of see that they're the The light's hitting it just right where you can see that little bend. And that's pretty much where you're putting your arm, this forum and the bottom of your forearm. And when you do that, you're gonna make sure that the rest of your fingers are just falling down, just kind of hang in there and notice they're not having any tension in the fingers. So attention would mean they're tight like this and they're squished or they're far apart and they're still attention. There were looking for us. You're not gonna wanna have any tension whatsoever in your fingers, and they just kind of hanging down there. The next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna take our thumb and place it somewhere on our bass guitar. But for right now and we're just beginning. We can place our thumb on a few different places, and you can place it on this top coil pickup, or you can take and make it a little easier on yourself. For some folks who have longer arms, folks of shorter arms tended gravitate towards these pickups. Some of them put it on the edge of the fingerboard. And this fingerboard has this little edge here, and sometimes it's a good spot to put your thumb. For those of us that have a hard time putting on the top of this coil pickup for the edge of the fingerboard, simply just set it down and planted anywhere that feels comfortable for you. For those of us who really, really big hands, much bigger hands. And I have sometimes the thumb is placed on the top of this white piece here on your bass guitar. So wherever it's comfortable for you, for me, I'm just gonna hang out back here on the top of this coil pickup. Now, notice if I touch this coil pickup, it's not gonna make any noise. If I hit it really loud, it'll make some noise. But we're not really worried about that because our main performance comes out of our base camp
5. Right Hand Technique For Bass Guitar: Let's get ready to learn proper right hand technique. Now, when we're learning proper rank and technique, know that there's a lots of ways toe have right hand technique. What we're gonna cover in this course covers about 90% of all base plane. No, keep in mind. Like I said, even though we're gonna use a two finger sliding technique, there are other uses. Four different versions of playing. In fact, when you're in a recording studio or as a studio musician, Lee a specific sound. What a bass sounds like plucked with your fingers. Here's the same thing with a pick I noticed they have a really different sound. Sometimes in a recording studio, one sound is better than the other. When we use the pads of our fingers the soft, pliable parts of our fingers we get a different sound than using the edges of our fingers. If we use the edges of my fingers, are the tips no sound like this? It's very common for a beginning bass player to feel like they need to pick physically, pick the strings instead of roll their fingers off, and we're going to shy away from that at this moment because we're learning the basics of playing the bass later on, you'll actually use it for course. So even though there are uses for just about any way to play the bass, we're gonna be really specific and saying that we're going to use the pads of our fingers. So our first step to understand what that means is we're going to take the thumb implant where? Replant it. It doesn't matter where Planet could be here. Could be here. Could be here. Could be anywhere on our on our bass guitar. What matters that your thumb, this planet just kinds of stays there. One of the things that we're gonna think about when we place her thumb is that the angle of our thumb is flat. So our thumb doesn't Curlin and give, uh, extra attention where we don't need it to. So flatten that thumb out wherever you decide to put it, and will be okay for now. So the other thing that we're gonna think about is we're going to touch our strings with the pads of our fingers. So when I talk about the pads were talking about this meaty part of our finger versus the very tips. So our thumb is gonna go down wherever goes down, and then we're simply going to touch the pads on the strings. So once we have the pads on the strings, it doesn't matter what string it's gonna be for right now. Uh, but now we kind of know what that feels like. And what we're gonna do is we're just gonna do, Ah, pre based techniques are not really playing or base yet, but what we're doing is we're just sliding the fingers across the strings. We're not really trying to make noises quite yet with our base, but we're just sliding the fingers across the strings and we're starting at the lowest strings of the lowest to the ground. The first string, and we're just coming up and just sliding it across the strings. So once you're comfortable sliding your fingers on the pads across the strings, we'll see you in the next lesson.
6. Left Hand Technique for Bass Guitar: Now that we know how to place our right hand and right arm on our base, we need to figure out what to do with our left hand. So the first thing that we're gonna do is we're gonna take our left arm and her left hand and simply extended out as if you were shaking somebody's hand. The difference between shaking somebody's hand and how we want to have our hand is take a thumb in, turn it outwards away from your body just a little bit. And what we're looking for is the point that touches our base to be right there the tip of our finger, this knuckle, this knuckle, the back nickel. And this is kind of where we're looking for. You should see little crease. And depending on where her hand growth is, if we have little hands, we might be back here little ways. If we have a gigantic hands like that could be back up your ways. So know that it can change depending on your hand size. But for me, it's right about there. And if I have my hand out and I think of that little spot that's right there, I'm simply going to touch my bass with that part of my hand. That's important at this time that your hand doesn't try to grab the neck of the guitar at this point, right? All we're trying to do is take your hand, have it out like that, think of the spot and then touch your guitar. That's it. So practice touching your guitar without getting your hands toe. Want to try to grab or curl around because it's a pretty human thing toe Want to do? Once you ready getting your hand in position, Just leave it there and then simply set your thumb down on the top of the bass guitar and then your fingers get curl around and then they touch the strings somewhere. It doesn't matter what front right now. It doesn't matter what string right now. They're just curled around a little bit. Once you have your right arm in place in your left arm and hand in place and you feel comfortable to move on. We'll see you in the next lesson.
7. Tuning the Bass Guitar: we're gonna be tuning our base and you'll want to try to get Elektronik tuner to tune your bass. And there's lots of great resource is on how to tune your bass with an electronic tuner for right now. Since this course is offered across the world, there's lots of folks that don't have Elektronik tuners. So we're going to be using our ear to match your base at home to this base here. Some basic things about two in your your base. Is that the tuning peg that's nearest our body. Tombs string. Biggest strength 2nd 1 away from our body. So 1st 1 second one, this one turns our third string and then I go one down more sort tours second string to our first string, so it just goes down the line to furthest away is no. 1234 If I tune, turn these counterclockwise, another going counterclockwise. That means they're increasing the tension on the base so that the Internation comes up to pitch with too high, and you need to de tune it or make the strings go looser. You'll tune the strings or the tuning peg counterclockwise, and that will make the pitch go lower. So in these next videos, you'll be hearing me play simply big long notes for you to have the opportunity to tune your bass guitar.
8. Tune Your Bass Guitar G - Bass Guitar: tuning note G The first string open Oh, do you thing is your opportunity to tune your bass guitar Oh oh, you 00 oh oh!
9. Tune Your Bass Guitar D - Bass Guitar: tuning note. D The second string open. Uh oh. Uh uh uh uh uh.
10. Tune Your Bass Guitar A - Bass Guitar: tuning note A the open third string.
11. Tune Your Bass Guitar E - Bass Guitar: tuning Note E your fourth string open Oh!
12. Example - Strings and Alternating Fingers - Bass Guitar: welcome back, and this is the first time we actually get to player base For the first time, we're gonna work on this little bitty string, and that string is called G. That's the name of it. The G string. Our thumb is going to go where wherever he wanted to go, as long as it's flat. And then these two fingers are going to go down to that first strength and noticed that my fingers are not completely flat down, not 100% pointing down to the ground, but they're just in a little bit of an angle. There's times when I want to use my fingers completely flat, but for us it's more ergonomic to have a little bit of an angle, so your fingers point in a little bit towards the middle of your body slightly. Okay, so the first pluck that we're going to do when I say pluck it's really that slide across the strings versus a plug. Ooh. So slide those pads across the strings, slide the pads across the strings. No, When we do this, we're going toe alternate. Our fingers were going to call this our index finger and your middle finger or first finger or second finger, and that's the standard terminology that will use. We'll take your middle finger first, so I kind of always goes first on base and we're gonna go middle finger followed by index finger. This is what your fingers will look like up close. First, the middle finger extends out and then plucks in. At that point as that plucks in your first finger or index finger will be jettisoned out, pull back and pluck the string and out. So both of them are moving at the same time, so one doesn't move, and then the other moves is simply the culmination of both doing the same thing. So middle finger goes out. It plucks in as it plucks in your first, but your grows out, ready to pluck so plucks and then the middle fingers out and ready to pluck and then happens over again. Kind of like a cyclist or swimmer kicking little different with a swimmer kicking more like , uh uh, two different orbital movements with your fingers came Now. Now that we know how that works, we're just gonna practice, uh, with our thumb in the right spot and then our arm so our middle finger goes out and reaches . The same thing happens with my index finger and my ring finger, and I just repeat so middle finger index finger and you notice the one that you look like that's moving. When I say middle finger, it's the one that plucks So middle finger pie Lux for index finger dread is's out. Index finger comes in, middle finger jettisons out. Middle finger comes in plucks index fingers, Edison's out, the first finger comes in and plucks and and the middle finger jettisons out, and we simply turn back and force a middle. 234 index. 234 Middle 234 index 234 Middle 234 index 234 All right, when you feel comfortable using your middle finger and your index finger, alternating them back and forth to try to do it in slow motion, if you can do it in slow motion, it's always easier to do it in fast motion when we get up to speed. So once you feel comfortable with using the first drink, alternating your index finger and your middle finger, we'll see you in the next lesson.
13. Practice Lesson with Backing Track ss FA LECTURE 12: Welcome back now what's gonna happen? It's on long to include a backing track right after this lesson. So this is a practice lesson, and we're hearing that backing track in this lesson. We're practicing with it once we're done with this practice session, so I'm teaching you how to practice along with it. Then you will take some time and you'll play that backing track and play along with it for us, long as it possibly can. The longer a practice, the easier it is to get us to where we want to go the fastest. So here we go. What's gonna happen is you're gonna hear too long. Clicks click Click, followed by four faster clicks, so you have the long click click click than faster clicks. Click, click, click, click. When we hear those faster clicks, we're gonna count in our heads or out loud. 1234 Now we'll play this G tone, the first string open without any fingers on our friends at all, and we're going to play starting with our middle finger on the 1st 1 So click click won t 341234 Then switch on the next 1123412341234 Okay, so when you're ready, um, you can always pause this while you get ready. If this is moving too slow for you at any time, there's a spot in the lower left hand side of your screen where you can speed up the video . What's moving too fast? You can simply, uh, take that a speed and moving at a slower speed. So however you need to learn there's tools for you in that bottom left hand part of your screen disputed up or slow it down. So here we go. Slow earns 1234 Middle finger one index finger. One one Next one three index 1111231 one. I think this is the last time. Great job. Now that we know how to play along with that backing track, move onto the next video where the backing track is and practices much as you can. Once you're done, we'll see you back at the next lesson.
14. Practice with a Band Open G String 85 BPM Bass Guitar: 85 beats per minute? Yes. In this case. Here? In this case. That is it. Yes. Here it is. And this is what this is.
15. Primary and Secondary Tones - Bass Guitar: Welcome back. We're gonna be discussing primary and secondary tones. So the only tone that we know so far on the base is this Jew tone. The first string that's open and there's lots of secondary tones that we possibly could play. But what do you first start out? We think of the five as a secondary tone, and in this case, the five of G or one of the fives of G. The one that we're gonna play is the open second string. So here's the primary tone, the open string followed by the secondary tone, the second string. So again, the primary tone is the first train, and in the secondary tone is the second straight open. There's some rules to this primary and secondary tone. If we're using alternating fingers like we just learned how to do, our middle finger will be in charge of the bottom string. The first string and our index finger or fingers First finger will be in charge of our second string. There's another thing that's gonna happen. Our left hand hasn't had to do much quite yet, and we're gonna talk about left hand muting. So what happens is if I want a tone to stop bringing. I simply let my fingers and barely touch the strings. There's curls in your fingers. There's can be space in between them. If there's if your fingers or flat there flat against the strings, there's no space. Can't even fit a sheet of paper in there. Now here's the thing that's that's gonna happen when we do muting were wanting to be able to put a small amount of pressure, the least amount of pressure because we don't want your note. We want to hear a dead tone. So what's gonna happen is I'm gonna take my middle finger and I'm gonna play that open first. String that G tone and then the fingers are gonna collapse on the strings, barely touching because one hand one and where those fingers come down on the strings On the end one hand, 11 When we do the right hand muting along with our exercise that we're going to do, we're going to do the primary tone encountered as 1234 just like we did in the past. But it's gonna look like this one meat. Then, after my middle finger gets done, plucking my index finger will now pluck the second string. And I will go three mute. So look like this in conjunction one of you to Butte. One new to mute, one new to Newt, one mute to food. We're gonna count it a little slower than what our practice exercises. Just to get the right idea one to three, four, plug, lead, pluck, middle finger, mute index finger, second finger index vendor plug. You'd plug, need plug, mute pluck. All right. Gets in practice. And you can do it really slow to, like, pluck who moved, pluck. However, you need to build it comfortable with it and slowly build up your speed to the speed that we're doing it here in this lesson. Take the time to do so and we'll see you in the practice session.
16. Practice Session - Primary and Secondary Tones the 1 and 5 - Bass Guitar: welcome back to this practice session. So what we've done so far is we've learned how to alternate. Our fingers are middle finger than our index finger, and now we will also learn our primary tone and her second Terry's tone. We called it the open string and the second stream, but we also called it the one in the five. The reason why it's a one or five is because they're notes in a scale. If I went Dole Remy s so and I counted them 12345 our second tone that I end up on 12345 that open string that open second string. That's the five tone of the he M. Jean, because I had my note that I started thinking with a G g a B c D happens to be a d tone eso that's the next thing we're gonna learn is this open second string is our D string. It's also the five of G 12345 So that's one way we could get to it, and we don't necessarily have to know how to do that. We just have to understand how I got there to be able to understand what a five means versus needing to play the scale on your base. That's all we need to understand. Right now we can also get there by going from our one or our G tone that we started on and I can sing backwards the scale Doughty lost. So now I sing it a little out of tune. But I think you get the idea right. So is long as I understand that this is a dough and this is a So I also understand that this is also means it's a one out of 51 being the dough, So being doh ray me fast. So five Right now I'm gonna count these as one mute one, 12341234 So the one gets a tone. The two gets a mute, the three with the other finger, the index finger gets a tone and the next beat is four and it gets a mute one. Newt three meat. 123412341234 All right. Just like before. We're going to play a backing track, and I'm gonna help you practice a lot with it right now to get you up to speed. And after this lesson is the backing track by itself. And that gives you an opportunity to play along in practice without me talking over it. Okay, here we go. We're gonna hear too long. Clicks, tick, Think. Then tick, tick, tick. Faster ones. And those are accounts that will actually count out loud. 1234 at the end of those four, the musical start, and then we'll start practice along. And if you feel like you need to watch me do some of that practice for a while before you, um, you come in, that's totally fine. Watch for a little while, get your bearings. And if for some reason you like, I just don't know, just go back to the beginning of this video, go back to the beginning and then watch it from the beginning. Or watch it from when those first clicks come in and then start again. All right, here we go. Here's the two long ones. Fast, fast, fast. Next primary, Secondary primary, secondary Primary, secondary Primary Secondary. First ring. Second string, first string, second string, first drink, Second string first string seconds from going primary secondary middle finger in next year's open straining first string. Second string. Remember your bucket like a slide off straight. Going again? You feel 13 at any moment. Go ahead and stop, but you can power through it. He's going. It's on. All right, great jobs. Here's the last one word done.
17. Practice with a Band Open G String 85 BPM Bass Guitar: 85 beats per minute? Yes. In this case. Here? In this case. That is it. Yes. Here it is. And this is what this is.
18. Example - C Chord - Bass Guitar: we know how to do our open G chord, the open the primary, followed by the secondary or R one and R five. Now you notice that it was an open string. No fingers in the five is right above where the one is. So the one is an open, and I'm pointing to the nut, exclaiming that it's an open just means there's no fingers, right? So it's an open, which is the one, and the five exists directly above it, with also no fingers. This happens over and over and over and over again on the base. So doesn't matter what court I'm playing. If this happens to be the one on the first, fret if we follow the same logic. I go up one string to the second string and also play first finger on the first Reckoned that is my five, so it doesn't matter where I am. So let's say I'm on the third string here, and I'm pretending that that is a one. My five will also be the exact same way. It's now the very next ring above where that was on the same fret saying finger. Another is also five, so it's just a common thing that happens on the base over and over again. We're going to use this commonality in a C chord. So we've learned G primary secondary 15 And now we're going to move to using our third finger third finger zehr ring finger. So our fingers have members. The thumb doesn't get a number, But this is my first finger, second finger, third finger and fourth finger. What's gonna happen is I'm gonna find my third string 123 That's the third biggest string that we have. It's happened to be known as an a string This a string If I go up to the third fret is going to be a C tone a B flat B c chromatic Lee speaking if you know anything about, uh, music theory and we'll learn a little bit more about that later. But right now, just know that the third fret these metal things the third fret with the third finger third finger on the third string A is called a C. It's see tone. Now what's gonna happen is I'm going to get this finger all the way up to the front and touch it so it's not going to be in the middle friend middle of the front, so notice that there's two parts of the front on both sides and space in between the middle . We don't want to see space, so we're going to slide it up and touch the front. This is gonna happen again. Were the hand touches, the fingers curl around? We're making sure that there's space in between where the fretboard is in my hand. So there's some space there. We're making sure that the part where the pinky touches isn't going to come up and touch the instrument. We wanna have some space there in the most open my hand. You still see that kind of a 45 degree angle from with your hand. It's very important. Now. Notice that when I have my third finger over this third finger, this guy right here, the ring finger. You can also see that the finger is coming in at a 45 degree angle. It's not straight up in the air, it's not towards the strings that's halfway between, so make sure that your fingers are also at a 45 degree angle with our C chord. Our primary note of C is C. It's the third finger on the third string of the A string, just as if I played my G chord with my primary with my middle finger and my secondary tone with my index finger. The same thing was gonna happen with this C chord. So my middle finger on my right hand is going to pluck or slide off the strings with a C tone. The thing that's gonna happen now it's a little different to mute. This note is, I'm gonna lift up pressure someone to pluck lift up the pressure and it stops reading. It's really important that this finger doesn't lift up all the way off the strings because you'll get a different tone. The wall wall Now again when I pressed down and I play the seat Oh, it's simply just going to alleviate all the pressure and ST on the string. It's gonna mute string. All right, so I'm going to play that primary tone, see, and then go, as I did on my G string goes straight up straight up over to the next front, the exact same front, but on the next string up. So I'm not playing the third fret of my fourth string and that'll be my secondary tone happens to be a G tone. So, Juan playing see mute g mute that muted again is just lifting up slightly Still having contact with the finger on the string. So I'm pressing down, making sure that it's my middle finger I pressed down, get a good tone I'm you'd it by just alleviating pressure And then my index finger is now on my fourth string Third fret playing that g tone the third front of the fourth string And then it alleviates pressure and I muted So it looks like this really slow pluck Newt Pluck , mute, middle finger in next finger, second finger. First finger See tone mute G tone mute. See tone Newt G tone need If I was gonna count just like I did the G string 1234 I'm going to do the same, but I'm gonna pluck counting as one, do them you just to gonna pluck again that lower tone. That secondary tone has three. And then the mute is four. So it's gonna be this. 12341234123412341234 So, just as a quick exercise, let's go ahead and do it together. I'm gonna count. 1234123412341234 In the next practice session will be going back and forth between the G chord and the C chord. Jean on now the sea. All right, when you're ready and you get really comfortable with that See, uh, go ahead and load of the next lesson.
19. Practice Session G and C - Bass Guitar: welcome back and we're almost ready to do some practice. Let's just go over one last time before we hit the play button with the backing track. Simply, you're going to hear the too slow beats tick than four fast speeds to at first bet Beat is gonna be. Then base no middle finger, followed by a mute, followed by index finger second string, followed by a meat to the 1234 That happens four times in a row now. So there's four measures in this structure. Well, there's four beats in a measure, so 1234123412341234 For all of that time, you plain gene Primary secondary Primary secondary. Second measure of primary, secondary, primary, secondary and so on. And so forth for those four beats a 1234123412341234 That whole time, period. Then we're gonna move to see so we have our third finger on the third fret all the way. I've been touching not on top of it, but right behind it and still touching. And I'm gonna go back and forth between C and G, the primary or the secondary or the one of the five, as we've determined before and our mean structure is a little bit different. Instead of tapping slightly on the strings, we just lift up the strings and stop the vibration from vibrating. So it's gonna look like this one, too. 341 you to be 23 and then you would before and that happens again four times one, 123412341234123 For that whole stretch of time for four cycles of four. All right, when you're ready, we're gonna begin two peas that are slow and for bees that are fast A little Now, - Okay , great job. The video after this is simply a backing track so that you can practice without me talking and trying to give instruction and practice. With that, um, it's at 85 beats per minute. And at the bottom of this course, there's faster tracks and slower tracks of this and the ones we worked with before, along with backing tracks that will use in the future. So, um, practice a lot. Get some good working, and we'll see you in the next lesson.
20. Practice with A Band - G and C Bass Guitar 85 BPM: 85 beats per minute. And okay. Okay. Okay. Yes. Okay. Yes.
21. Example - D Chord - Bass Guitar: Welcome back. Now we know our g chord r c chord Now we're gonna learn our d chord. Now, when we do our dick order is gonna be very similar to the G chord where we had to open strings and those two open strings that we had for G We're the first ring and the second string The D chord is simply the open d string in the open a string So my primary is D that second string open and then my secondary tone or my five So my one or my primary my secondary arm a five is gonna be the A string open or the third string open And much as before I did the mute by take my fingers and setting them down on the string was trying not to create a percussive sound, but just setting them down in the strings. Uh, I was able to achieve my mute for G, and we're going to use the exact same mannerism for De if this was G. Mm. The same thing is gonna happen for D, except it's the to middle strings this time D string a string d string a string d mute a mute denude pain you'd still using our two fingers and alternating the middle than index middle and index. In the next lesson, we're gonna be working with another backing track, but using all three chords this time G, c and D looking forward too excited about it, and we'll see you in the next lesson.
22. Practice Session G C D - Bass Guitar: welcome back. And now we're ready to do our practice Exercise where we're doing G see And then D so again RG waas do you? Then we have our c chord and our meat is simply just lifting up those fingers just a little bit to stop the string from vibrating but not all the way off the string And you're still taking your fingers and your going middle Index middle index The last thing we're gonna do is do our new chord D and oh, just like G has that silent tap for the mute. So it goes like this through the whole song G c d g c d g c D g CD all the way through the song. So get yourself ready. You need the positive video. Just pause the video. And when you're ready to play again and will continue, remember, there's four measures of each. Get ready for Dean G. Last measure C way back to Jean. Here's D last time. Great work. This next video is simply again the backing track without me doing instruction so you can get some good practicing by yourself. We'll see you in the next lesson
23. Practice with a Band G C and D 85 BPM Bass Guitar: 85 beats per minute, right? Good. Sure. Yes. In this case.
24. Open Position Key of A - Bass Guitar: welcome back, and now we can play in the key of G playing open chords. Now the term Open simply means five play an open note, its primary tone and then it's secondary tone. And remember when he played in the key of G. We also played this C chord. So whether or not it's an open string or it's not, it's still what we're gonna call an open position. That's just the term that describes that movement. One to the five onto the five. One day the five doesn't matter where it is, it's still an open position. Now that we have that terminology down, let's move to the key of a The three chords that we're gonna be playing really are those same open position chords that we've been playing. But they're in a little different spots on our bass guitar and we're discovering are open a string That's the one to third string open, and then we're also going to be using our D string open second string open. We're also going to use the D string again. That's that second string. But now the second fret first finger. Okay, so there's some other things that we have to discuss, too, because we're playing the bass. We've will start toe, integrate some music theory into the base. And we're gonna bring you along really slow with that music theory because too much can be overwhelming. The only thing that we're gonna discuss for right now and what we're about to go over still applies to that key of G that we played before. But we're expressing the the learning part or aspect now in the key of a Okay, so here we go. A is the first note in my scale because I'm in the key of a Now if I went a and then B and then see you, Andy and Andy in an F and so on what I would need to know off what my chords are. And in the beginning, when you start to play, the bass you play was called the one chord, The four chord, And then the five chord. The first note of my scale. Because I'm in the key of a would be naturally a. And then I think of what my other notes are and I go with a is one B is too, See, actually a C sharp when I'm not worried about that right now, So a B c d. So I've now I found my four a b c d d is my four chord That means my open string d and then five a b c d e e is my five chord So five being e I'm going to play either this open sounding string. But since I don't know how to play a close position yet, I'm gonna play this open e note my first finger on the second fret of the D string. So my example Oven accord would be first my middle finger on a And what do you suppose my five of a would be That's going to be the note directly above where it will be. So this is also my five tone of a so it's gonna look like this middle finger, followed by index finger, third string, followed by fourth string and that little mute that we did by taking our fingers and putting them down on the strings, stopping the vibration So it goes like this middle finger mute index finger mute, middle finger mute, and this is gonna be your record. All right, so that's our accord. The next court that we're gonna learn is our D card, which is our d string open and notice this that all has the same feature with it. Open sounding chords is that if I have a d the very next note that I play for my secondary if I play my primary is gonna be straight up, up towards the ceiling, that string and that's gonna be open to So my five tone of D is a so I have ah, open second string open, third string open, second string open, third string. And of course I'm alternating those fingers, so it's gonna be middle finger index finger, middle finger index finger, and then the same thing happens with my mute. It's that pad pluck, mute, pluck, mute, pluck, mute, pluck, mute. Okay, so what we're gonna do in the next exercise is we're going to go over our e chord and then put it all together so we'll see you in the next lesson.
25. Open Position E chord - Bass Guitar: welcome back and we're gonna go over our e chord, put it all together. One thing that will really want to discuss is the actual term of a chord. Now, when we played the bass, it's very rare that we actually play chords because cords require three notes, a Route three and five and most the time we're playing one note single note at a time. So even though we're calling these cords, they're not actually cores. We're just playing the bass along to a guitar playing chords or a piano playing chords. And it's just common terminology for a bass player to use. If they were in a band, okay, now are making that e chord. So our index finger is gonna be on this e tone. It's gonna be that second fret of the D String, that second string, and it's gonna play with our middle finger. And and then the secondary tone, as always, goes straight up from the note that we just got done playing and hammers or secondary tone . Yeah, there we go. So it's a B tone e and then being so e and then be middle finger than Index finger and how we do our pad like we did before, with notes that are not open are going to be play the note of that constant pressure and then alleviate the pressure so it doesn't ring out anymore. Using this finger to just lift up just a little bit. There we go. So this is how it's gonna wait. We have middle mute, middle mute, middle mute Middle meet, Middle Nude, Middle need. And if I was going to use this accord and then the D chord and then the e chord or my one chord and then my four chord and then my five chord, I'm going to play the single its first or just the primary. So here's an a tone. Here's a D tone and then here's an E tone. Now I'm gonna use four cycles. A cycle is just simply a primary and secondary primary and the secondary. So these four cycles of those primaries and secondaries we're gonna do it really slow is gonna be a to three four. Then we're going to switch to D, which is our four chord. Here's the 2nd 1 Now here's E the five corn, Then we're back to a all right in the next lesson, we're gonna do something a little bit different organ going to use all of those same chords . It's gonna be that same backing track that we did in the key of G. With all of the court changes being the exact same accepting this time we're gonna do it in the key of a versus the key of G. So when you're ready, we'll see you in the next lesson.
26. Practice Session - A, D and E chord put together - Bass Guitar: okay, Some things to think about before we start playing along with his backing track. If I start in a and I'm playing along my middle finger has to now do a little bit of a lift to get over to the D string. So that's gonna be something important we have to do. Now, when I finally start playing this e note, I'm still on that same string because I'm still in the same two sets of strings with my middle finger. The thing that I have to think about now is now that I've switched strings to go back to the Accord, I have to now move that middle finger down one set of strings or up one set of strings. If you think about it like that, and then we're gonna have to play that accord. All right, So let's get started. We're gonna have those too long ticks than four fast ICS. And we're gonna play along now if for some reason you can't start right away no worries. Just sit there and listen for a while. I wait till the a chord comes back around and then go ahead and start with us. Two long ones. Here's the fast ones. Here we go Way. Third measure fourth measure now to the way. Third measure fourth measure Last measure. Do A. Here's a measure for Measure E back to a fourth measure. Here's that. All right, great work with your practice in the next video will simply be that backing track at 85 beats per minute, the same backing track that you heard in this video. Siri's just for you to bail the practice with before you move onto. The next lesson at the bottom of this course is our course tools. And if you need to make this faster, if you want to make it slower, all of those backing tracks are for you at the bottom of this course. So when you're ready for that practice, we'll see you in the next lesson.
27. Practice with a Band A D and E 85 BPM Bass Guitar: 85 beats per minute. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Here it is.
28. Learn Notes up the Neck with The Bass Players Alphabet - Bass Guitar: welcome back. And before we move on, we're gonna learn a fun trick on how we can learn some of our notes up the neck of our bass guitar. Pretty simply So what we have to do is locate these dots that you see. So the 1st 3 dots and sometimes your base won't have dots, and sometimes your base is missing this dot on the third front. So let me describe it for those of us who don't have these dots the first dot and I'm talking specifically about this little dot that you see here the fifth fret in the seventh front. We don't have to worry about any other frets at this point in this exercise, we're going to start at this fourth string that big, fat one up here. What we're gonna do is we're just gonna play the note, listen to it and know that we have an alphabet. Our musical alphabet goes like this a b c d e f g, and it only goes to G and starts over again. A B, C D E f g a, B, c, d e f g a, b, c, d e f g, and so and so on. Now, even though that we're not starting with a we know that if we start on G, the next note is a B c D e f g than a. The first note that we're gonna play is G. Now I go up to the next dot or from the third front to the fifth Fret No, I'm on the fifth fret and I go, Ah, I name that note as a a So g a. The very next note is the next note in the alphabet, and I have to go up to the seventh fret or the next dot, which is being so Those notes are G A B G a B G a b. The next note My alphabet after B is C And at that point, I'm after I've used the 1st 3 notes, I go to the next string down So in extra down to the ground. And that's my third string and those same three dot supply. I'm gonna start the first dot or the third fret that's gonna be seen. So I had g a B C. Now that I have that, my next note that I have is gonna be from my third front to my fifth threat on my third string. And that is a what do you think? G a B c D. It's a d note. So when we're learning these these air helpful reminders to us So if I ever find myself needing to find a C Nope, I know where it is. If I never need to find a denote besides it open string. I know where what is and so on. So this becomes very useful, especially in our next exercise. So let's continue. I have G A B c d. I go up to the next dot that you see g a B C D E u notice. That's that same Eastern. You know that we played before, right? So f after I go from g A B c d e Then. So I am now. I I've done all of the three tones that I can do on my third string. I now move over to my second string and that no is f g a B c D E f. Then there's G and I finally finish up with a this and, um now so I have on the fourth string G A B on the third string. I have see de here and then I have on the second string F g and A. So as long as I can do my alphabet G A B C D e f g a. Then we know and can memorize certain parts of our neck on our base. So take some time, really try to memorize those notes. And if all you can do is just say those bass players alphabet for no, that's OK. Soon enough, you'll have memorized them. And if you need to write them down for those of us who are learners of moving and those of us were learners of vision versus just hearing, it's a really great way to learn is by just writing those down. G A B C D E. Effigy A. All right, Do some practice with that and we'll see you in the next lesson.
29. Example - Open 1 - 4 and 5 In the Key of C - Bass Guitar: welcome back and all of the cords that we're gonna be playing are based off that bass guitar players scale that we've just learned The G A B c D e f g today, the 1st 1 that we're gonna work on is this seat own the third fret of the third string, and we're still doing, uh, open sounding chords. So my primary is the sea tone there in front, but with your index finger and make sure that your finger is all the way up to the front and touching. All right, so now we have the primary tone and then the secondary tone, which is on my fourth string. Same fret, same finger. So I have that C chord. Now that's my one court out of the key of C. If I go to this next note way could find out what that note is if we go G a b, c d e f or if I want to say, well, if C is my one. Tone D is my two tone. He is my four tone F is that four tone and then I have GS, my five tone. So if I have play out of a one for five position like we did before, which most common music is most music that you hear on the radio today. We'll have a one chord, four chord and a five chord, just like we've discovered here and we've played with. But some ancillary records are some minor chords, but we'll discover all of them. By the end of this course. Just know that most of the songs, let's say 70% of the songs that are out there on the radio on Lee consists of three chords , the one Before and the five. It's good thing we're starting there so that we can play most of the songs on the radio. Okay, so if this is my C chord, that third fret of the third string and here's my primary tone on my secondary tone. And then I have this F note, which is the third fret of the second string, and I play my primary tone, and then my secondary tone is just that. See, Tony, we just got done playing on the third string. Third fret First finger. It'll look like this. I'm gonna start with C first, do one measure, so I have middle, and then my finger comes up for that mute. And then I move on to that secondary tone and in the mute middle finger, you'd index finger, middle finger. I'm gonna move on to that F tone deaf primary secondary, F C F c. What's happening now? As I have my one tone, I find that my four tone is directly underneath the one that I just played. So one, almost all the time on our guitar debating where If unless you're on the first string, of course, if I have my one, my forecourt is gonna go directly down towards the ground on the same front. I just draw a straight line down. So one chord for chord one Gord for corn and just a zai found that four chord The easy way to find the five court is from the four chord and go up two fronts. So for corn, I go up one to France. So from the dot to the doctor one, four, five, and then back to one. So I'm making a straight motion motion here. One string away from my one to my four and then a straight motion from my four to my five. Here's my one again, my C court, my C chord. But I'm gonna move to F, which is my third front of my second string. Here's my five court. I am on the same string as my four corn, but I'm going to go up 12 fronts and that will be my G corn, right? And then when I go back to my one chord, I've just got done playing a five of the five, and that's simply the third string and I go. One fret two frets down and known back to my one chord C Okay, in the next lesson, we're gonna be playing with a backing track. Justus. We did before, with four measures on each chord, the first corn being seen, the next court being f, the next court being Gene. And then we'll do that over and over just to get comfortable playing in the key of C with open position chords, and we'll see there
30. Practice Session - Open - 1 - 4 - 5 In the Key of C - Bass Guitar: Okay, we're ready to play. Are open sea cords to our backing track on. Let's get to it. Here we go. Get ready to play. Seeing middle finger Index finger, Middle Finger Index finger. Fourth measure moving S Get ready. Oh, straight down to see. Here's the move. See you. Go on. Here's Jeanne way. Great work. The next video is simply the backing track that you heard in this video at 85 beats per minute. As always, if you find that 85 beats per minute is too fast for you, simply choose a slower tempo at the bottom of this course. And it's too slow for you. You want to challenge yourself. I've included faster tempos there as well. So what, you're done with that practice session and you're ready for the next lesson. We'll see you there.
31. Practice with a Band Open C 85 BPM Bass Guitar: 85 beats per minute. Nice. If food choices. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Thank you. Okay.
32. Example - Closed C - F - G - Bass Guitar: welcome back. And now that we can play see in a open position, we're now gonna learn our next steps as bass players. So far, we've Onley experienced playing out of the open position Next out of the key of C The thinking that we were just playing open, we're not gonna use a closed position and less described the closed position as this. We're still gonna use the same primary tone, works the 11 and then the five and then the one of the five we're just gonna choose a different five than we previously used before. And the five that we're gonna use is on the next ring down. So my primary tone or my one of see Issa see, tone is the one to third fret on the third string, and now my five tone is going to be one string down. So now it's gonna be on the second string and it's gonna be two frets above where I waas So instead of the third fret, it's now gonna be on the fourth front. So if I play my primary telling with my index finger and then I'm gonna reach with my fourth finger some of us might have really long fingers and you can reach with the third finger. But for most of us, probably gonna be that fourth finger reach for you're five tone. Okay, so it's gonna sound like this we're gonna have on index finger on the primary tone followed by a middle finger down on the secondary tone, the five index finger middle index Finger Middle. That's a little different than we did before where it was middle index middle index. Now it's index middle Index Middle. That says these air closed the mute that we're going to use, at least at the beginning. There's always more mutes. There's finger meets. There's thes finger meats that you could have here. But we're just simply going toe, take the pressure off slightly with their fingers here with their index finger or RPG and just take that pressure off and then we'll mute it like we have been. And this is gonna be for every single chord. So we have our C chord. And when we're doing this practice session, um, if you're having trouble at any time muting at the same time as we're playing, just play along big notes. You can always go back and do the muting later Once you feel comfortable. One, we're playing with backing tracks. Our structure is going to be index finger mute, middle finger meat index finger mute, middle finger mute. Okay, now, the next core that we're gonna do is f And we already know it because our four chord was straight down and we ended up playing just one set of strings down. Same fret and is going to be the F tone and then the five of the F. So the same thing happens with the closed part of the form. We have our index finger playing the F tone, and then we reach up with our pinky at this 45 degree angle, and we're going to get the head end of our pinky of flattened part of our pinky. So it's not curl over and touching, but it's gonna be flattened on the string, and we're gonna put a fair amount of pressure there to get her pinky working, and it's going to come up and touch the fret, so there's not any fret distance in between the front and it comes up and touches not on top of it but burn, but right behind. And when we do that, we're done playing that closed position F So we have primary secondary primary secondary with the mutes primary mute secondary mute primary need secondary mute. Something to think about mutes. Is there sometimes that mutes are appropriate? And sometimes we just want a big long note. Since we're in a practice setting, we're gonna practice our mutes, and you should be practicing your big lung notes to so which whichever way you decide to do it is gonna be fine. Just make sure that you practice the mutes because it's gonna be important moving forward that we know how to do our mutes. The next scored that we're gonna play is the G chord or the five chord of C 14 five. Remember, the one was Adah. See, we went straight down for a four, and then now we're going up that same string two frets for a five chord. So what's happening now is I'm doing my index finger on the G tone and and for the five were doing a pinky. So it's gonna be a index than middle for these two fingers index than middle than index than middle. So as we're doing their practice, it looks like this Index middle Index Middle. We're moving over to the F court index Middle, this is the forecourt Index middle. Now we're gonna go up to the five court index middle index middle and or back to the one. So when you're ready, when you feel comfortable playing this close position with the mutes worth out the mutes, we'll see you in the next lesson.
33. Practice Session - Closed Form C, F and G - Bass Guitar: welcome to our practice session where we're doing closed forms in the key of C. In our practice, were we going to be doing a C just like we did in our exercise. Then we're F court, then a g chord, which is our five 145 in the five of each chord is gonna be that pinky one set of frets, one set of strings down and two sets of fronts up. Okay. When you ready to play along with this practice session, get your base ready and let's go. Cheerio. No way. Corn. Five chord way, way. Go back to see. Wait for court. Wait. Five Last measure. Last time on star dorm use. Here's the way. No way, Forecourt five chord use wears the last quarter. Okay, The next video is gonna be simply a backing track at 85 beats per minute, and you'll want to try to play along with this backing track without me trying to say words and stuff. So you get a good, good, good amount of practice, really get used to that closed position, See? And when you're ready and you feel like you got it, we'll move on to the next lesson with you.
34. Practice with a Band Closed C 85 BPM Bass Guitar: 85 beats per minute. Nice. If food choices. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Thank you. Okay.
35. Trick - Bass Guitar: welcome back. And this is the first time we're gonna learn a trick, something fun for years to hear and for us to play along with these chord forms that were playing. Now we already know how to play in the key of C using closed position. Now, what we're going to do is we're gonna start out just like we did before. Now, these are gonna be notes that don't actually exist in the scale, but they're just interesting notes, and we call them passing tones that lead into the tone that were about to play. We're gonna start on this one chord C in a closed position, and we would normally go to this f tone. But what we're gonna do is we're gonna go one fret lower. That's the second fret of the second string and and then we're gonna slide it up. So constant pressure, because if I don't have constant pressure, it's gonna either buzz out on me and not make a sound. Or, um, it's going to go away as I slide. This tone will actually go away if I don't have constant pressure. So I'm putting pressure down. Not a whole lot of pressure, just enough pressure to hear the tone. And then once I hear that tone, I'm going to just slide it up and then you can hear that shift in tone. So look like this. I want to go my primary secondary, primary, secondary, primary, secondary. And then I'm gonna use that second friend and then slide it up without plucking the tone. So I didn't do any plucking. I just did it with my fingers. I plucked once. So this is what it's gonna sound like He wears a second friend way. Heard it. So what's happening is we have that last time that we do it that fourth time in the fourth measure and it sounds like this primary secondary second friend, and then I bring it up. So let's do it really slow. Primary secondary to three on the two threes is the fronts. Primary secondary to 31 more time. Primary secondary to three. Yeah, there we go. Primary secondary to three. Yeah, the five second friends third Fret it with a slide. Stood a few more times the primary secondary to slide Primary, secondary. Now it's gonna be within a lot of us really unnerved to try to pluck that next note. Make sure it's slid without a pluck. Stood a few more times before I move on. If you can't do it that fast, it just do. It's nice and slow and and try to work up your speed and when you work up your speed to a really small increments at a time until you can get it up to speed the speed of 85 beats per minute for our practice session in the next video. Okay, so that the next that's gonna happen is we have we're gonna play are four corgis like normal when way go from. The four were actually going to slide to the five now per secondary. So I'm going to come out of my four chord primary secondary primary so it looks like this primary Secondary primary slide one more time. Really slow primary secondary primary slide up to the five. The G tone primary secondary primary slide of the five primary secondary primary slide up to the five one last time A little faster primary secondary primary slide up to the five. Here we go Now we're playing this five. Now we get there so I finally get back to this five tone the primary of the five town and then as if I was playing that f and I went from the second front of the third fret. I'm gonna go the second front of the third friend. But now it's gonna be on the third string so I can go back to my one. So it'll look like this. So it'll look like that's amore time. Uh, primary of five. Secondary of five. All right, I want to give you a breakdown. Is going to show you how this works. Uh, and I'm gonna take this at the 85 beats per minute. Here's your 85 beats per minute and just listen. Second measure, third measure for measure Way, way. Remember, sex is just slide up five ways. Five blocks line five blocks. Just watching a little bit longer. Find smooth. E. Once we have our little ants, Larry notes are second front of the first friend for our one chord, our second Fred to the third fret for our four chord and then the slide from the four to the five. And make sure that one were in those transitions were playing the five of the previous cord before the move. Here's a primary and then the secondary. That's what we're calling the five. There's a primary secondary and the move happens. Secondary primary secondary than the slide secondary primary secondary then the moves was always right after that secondary being played. All right, Once you have that down practice that a bunch, we'll see you in the next practice session.
36. Slides Practice with Backing Tracks - Bass Guitar: Welcome back or we're doing slides up to our notes and these notes again aren't actually in our scale. We're going to start playing at 85 beats per minute, and we're gonna make sure that at the beginning, we're not going to use our meats. And But when we get more comfortable with it, whenever you feel like it, whenever you feel comfortable adding those mutant after we get our slides and then go ahead and start to add in your mutes, it's gonna be important that we're gonna player meets along with our slides before we move on to the next section. So here's our practice session. Here we go. Here it is. Slide up to five. Wait, secondary way. Here it is. - Last time around Secondary. The next video is a backing track again at 85 beats per minute for you to practice along with if it any time, this is too slow for you. Just go down to the bottom of this course. You find faster ones and slower ones. Um, depending on your speed, just make sure you do a lot of practice and get comfortable out of before moving on. We will see you in the next lesson
37. Practice with a Band Closed C 85 BPM With Slide Bass Guitar: 85 beats per minute. Nice. If food choices. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Thank you. Okay.
38. Example - Combining Open and Closed Forms - Key of C - Bass Guitar: welcome back and we're gonna be talking about combining are open and are closed forms in the key of C like we just got done playing our closed form is primary secondary or 15 and our open position, see, was one in five for this exercise, we're first going to start with a closed position. Primary secondary one followed by the five. Then what we're gonna do is we're gonna switch our fingers instead of being index middle. We're gonna go back to middle index like we did before for an open position scene, Primary secondary. So look like this. I have my primary secondary. My finger, after it had gotten done, sliding through the strings is now sitting on the correct string and I'm ready to do my open position. See Primary Secondary Middle Index. So I put it all together. It looks like this closed over, closed, open, closed, open. Oh, closed, open. And we're going to do that with every single chord that we could do. And so far, every every song that we've done, every backing track that we've done goes from the one to the four to the five, and that's not gonna be any different here. So the pattern is just the same. We're just playing it in different places. Okay, We're gonna put it all together, and we're going to use that closed, followed by open all of my course. 1st 1 court before court, and then the five chord. All right, let's do it really slow. We're gonna do the closed C chord followed by the closed F court and then open. No. Now we're gonna move over to our G chord closed than open for extra credit. And again you don't have in this. This is just if you feel comfortable moving forward doing it as a variation, you conduce your closed like normal middle index. And instead of getting your index backwards, we're just going to do a index finger for both notes for the open, and then the one comes back again. It looks like this index middle index index index is just to get our agility with our right hand a little better. So we're gonna do it like normal. And if you feel like you're moving along and you want to push yourself trying to do that new right hand finger technique along with this too So again, this is gonna look like this. So listen, huh? And go way . Okay. That example included a couple of different variations with my right hand. Um, for example. Now practice that using our closed and open, combining them. Once you feel comfortable, we'll see you in the practice session.
39. Combining Open and Closed Practice with Backing Tracks: Welcome to the practice session where we're combining our closed form and our open form. Here we go in 85 beats per minute way you're gone last time through way E. All right, make sure you do a lot of practice again. This is a little too slow for you. There's always at the bottom of this course faster backing tracks and slower backing tracks . If it's too fast for you, get a lot of practice done. Once you feel comfortable for the next part, we'll see there.
40. Practice with a Band Closed C 85 BPM Open and Closed Bass Guitar: 85 beats per minute. Nice. If food choices. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Thank you. Okay.
41. Example - Change Genre Country Effect Taps Dead Tones - Bass Guitar: welcome back, and we're gonna be learning a new effect. So what's gonna happen is we're gonna change genres of music, and it's not important. That is the genre of music. The changes. I'm choosing this show honor because it fits this effect really well, even though you can do this effect on many other different kinds of music and genres. Okay, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna do some taps to create a percussive feel, and we're also gonna do some dead tones for a percussive field. And the whole thing was gonna sound like this. I'm gonna show you how it goes first, and then I'm gonna break it down. So this is do a country drag. So in that particular feel of bass playing, there's a really hard, um, sneer, drum bo about a
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