Paul Wolfe: It's Paul Wolfe from How-To-Play-Bass.Com. Quick lesson for beginners on how to play great bassline on Time is Tight by Booker T & The MG's. It's pretty easy tune for beginners to pick up. It's a type of 3 code wonder and the main patten which is at C, for most of the tune repeat it's either in C or in F and there is only the courses which is slightly different. You just simply move that pattern up. So that makes you quite easy to learn. Quick note before we get on, if you are beginner, the quickest way for you to make progress in your playing is to get lessons with the teacher. If for whatever reason, you can't get to a teacher near by and you can't find a teacher, I do you have a system online bass lessons. There will be a link in the side of this video which you can click on and I will give you some more details. Don't hesitate to go to my website, have a look and use the contact form and give me a shout if that something that something that might be of interest to you. Anyway let's go and look at Time Is Tight.
Okay, Time is Tight intro. We'll play with metronome first and we'll talk through the notes; one, two, three. Okay, so those notes are fairly simple. It's just C, which is the third fret of the A string, A at the fifth fret of the E string and G at the third fret of the E string. And you have got C, C, A, C, A, G, C, A, G, C, A, G, A and it's played in this kind of rhythm. In that pattern when you played it, when it moves to the F in the song, is identical but you just move it down the string or down the string physically, upper string tonally to F. So those notes are F at the third fret of the D string, D at the fifth fret of the A string and C third fret of the A string and the sequence is F, F, D, F, D, C, F, D, C, F, D, C, D.
So, I'll play eight bars going from two times through C, two times through F; two, three, four and up to F. Now obviously that's played slightly slower than the original, so you can hear the notes and the rhythms. And if you write out the notes, make yourself a little chart if you can't remember all that. It should fairly straight forward for you to pickup, and enlists with the chorus. So let's go, look at the chorus. Okay chorus, 3, 2, 1. Okay, I play the chorus to the metronome and then we will talk through the notes. One, Two, Three, Four. Okay, there is eight bars in the chorus, but the second two bars are identical to the, the second four bars are identical to the first four bars except for the last bar. So, once you have learnt the first four bars, you can get it down.
Okay, the first couple of bars are, so you got G which is the fifth fret of the D string. Just bring the note in so you can see it. So you can see where we are in the bass. So that's G and then that second note or that last note rather was D which is the fifth fret of the A string although you could play with the open string. Okay the third and fourth bars are, so you have got G again, then down to B which is the second fret of the A string, then D which is the fifth fret of the A string, E second fret of the D string back to D fifth fret of the A string. And that third bar again is.
Okay then the fourth bar is, which is G again fifth fret of the D string and then D fifth fret of the A string and those last two notes are F and F sharp which is the third and the fourth fret of the D strings. Then you are back to G in the second four bars of the chorus. As I said, the fifth, sixth and eighth and seventh bars are identical to the first, second and third. I will just play those three bars. Then the variation is in the eighth bar, which is a simple walk down from the G to the C. So you got G fifth fret D string, third fret to D string, E second fret D string and D fifth fret A String. And then you are back in to the main riff again. and that's basically the song.
Okay so that was Time Is Tight. Its fairly simple song. The thing that's good for beginners. Although its obviously fairly simple and that's good because get another song under your belt is with the first and this is thing to watch during the verse, the bassline is doubled either by a guitar or after the first chorus, the guitar plays, I won't call it a melody, but it plays something more melodic and the basslines then doubled with the organ.
So it's very important to get the bassline. To get it really nice and solid, and be able to deliver it consistently throughout the song. it's great when we get basslines where we can play around a bit and throw in some fills and stuff like that. But you'll find when you get out in the real world and you gig, that there are some songs where you are just going to nail the bassline and you just go to deliver it consistently through the song and give it a nice groove. If you listen to the original, you'll hear that Duck Dong that's exactly there. It delivers it consistently and that has a really great bouncy feel to you. It's a really good feel good song.
So when you got the song down and you got the different parts on the song on to your fingers, play along with the song, do it on a regular basis, trying and imitate Duck Dong groove and his feel, and that will really help you bass playing. Hope you enjoyed that lesson and I hope it's helpful for you. If you got any questions, head over to my website and use the comments form. Otherwise I'll see you in the next video.
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