Paul Wolfe: Hi, this is Paul Wolfe from How-To-Play-Bass.com here with a lesson on how to play the basslines to the Bob Marley tune "Get up, stand up" fun song to play. It's pretty easy, it's good for beginners. There is only three parts to it. The intro, the verse and the chorus and the intro has only got two notes that's very straight forward. And before we get started on the intro, if you are not already signed up for my free monthly ezine, I recommend you head over to my website, howtoplaybase.com. Don't fill in hyphens. This will link just to the, how are you looking at it, just to the left to the video, click on it and just about any page on the websites has got the subscriber in to the top right hand corner.
Okay, the intro now if you are going to bother doing with the metronome and just can play. Okay, so it's basically, those notes are B flats, sixth fret of the E string. And then does that it goes up to from the B flat to C which is the third fret of the A string. And then that's pretty much the intro and then the very last state to know of the intro, there is a B flat pick up note to the first notes of the course. So just remember to slot that pick up note in. And literally that's the intro.
Should have seen me two hands real time play along of that with the Bob Marley original. Going to play it slowly with the metronome. To provide my metronome I am using this task cum bass trainer, a very handy piece of kit you can see, fits in your hand in size of an iPod, slightly bigger than an iPod, but just about the same size. I set the tempo to 110, original is around 150. Stop that. Okay so the first note the chorus is to C, but you don't forget you've got the pick up note of B flat, which is the sixth fret of E string.
Now C, the location I am playing is here. That's the third fret of the A string, so you got C and you got its phrase. Those notes are G and E flat and then D, E flat, D, back to C. Those locations are G is the fifth fret of the D string, E flat sixth fret of the A string, D fifth fret of the A string, back to E flat of the sixth fret back down to C which is the third fret of the A string. So that phrase is, so these are the notes. Then the next phrase is, and those notes are D fifth fret again of the A string up to G, which is the fifth fret of the D string, down to the lower order of G third fret to the A string, and then the pick up note is B flat, which is the sixth fret of the E string again and then you enter the second four bars of the pattern.
The first two bars are identical to us before. And then the second two bars of the that pattern are slightly different. You got C, third fret of the A string, two eighth notes on C again, then you've got D, the fifth fret of the A string, G which is the fifth fret of the D string, F third fret of the D string and the pick up note, B flat sixth fret of the E string. So I am going to play that whole part again very slowly. Two, three, four. Then you are back into the start of the pattern and then it just repeats. One variation just to know when you play the whole pattern through the second time through, the very last pick up note, the second time around is not a B flat, it's a C which takes you into the verse. So we will do the verse next.
Okay the verse is pretty straight forward, but it features, the first sort of three notes of the pattern, it's a four bar pattern that repeats four times. The first three notes in the first and the third bars are quarter note triplets. So over the first two beats of the bar, you've got three evenly spaced notes. Now if you are beginner, counting something like that is quite tricky. So, what I recommend is that you play along to the original you can clearly hear the line being played on the original. So, just play through that section or listen to that section a bunch of times, sing along to the bassline and that will give you the rhythm that you need to play your notes through. One of the great features of the bass trainer if you got one when you are learning something like this, is that you can slow the track right down and play along with the it really slowly to get the hang of it and then gradually speed it up. Anyway let's set the metronome going and we will play through the full bar pattern, three, four, play it again. Okay stop the metronome.
So note wise, it's pretty simple. The three notes of the triplet are always E flat, F and G and I am playing them E flat at the sixth fret of the A string, F at the eighth fret of the A string and G at the fifth fret of the D string. So the first time through, it goes the sustained note there is E flat which is the eighth fret of the G string. Then you got the pick up note back into it and that pick up note is B flat, the eighth fret of the D string. So, it's the same three notes E flat, F, G then down to B flat of the sixth fret of the E string and C at the eighth fret of the E string, and then you use C as the pick up note back into the pattern.
So it's fairly straight forward. Just get the notes first and then get the rhythm. The other thing to know is the last time through, when you are going back to the verse sorry going back to the chorus, is that playing C is the pick up note, then move your hand back down to the this position and the pick up note is a B flat to go back in to the chorus. So, that was "Get up, stand up" and good way to learn it is to isolate the parts, work on each sequentially, so you do the intro which is fairly straightforward, just pick that up pretty quickly, then do the verse, play through it slowly, make sure you've got it down and under your fingers before you move on.
As I said, if you got test cum bass trainer, great tool, you can slowly it down, you can even get it down to half speed without appreciably changing the pitch and then gradually work it up and then when you done the chorus, move on the verse and then start try putting them all together and playing through the song.
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