Hi! It is Paul Wolfe for How-To-Play-Bass.com. This is the 7th lesson of my virtual DVD on how to play the bass for beginners. Before we get started, I want to recommend that you head over to my website. It is How-To-Play-Bass.com and sign up for the free use. It is free, features articles, real life based, lets you learn and play another cool stuff.
Okay, in today's lesson, we are going to carry on when we left off after Every Breathe You Take and learn another tune. For this lesson, I picked "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis as our second tune to look at. Again, we are not going to learn the exact line as played on the record but it is going to be pretty close. There is also a PDF on my website and that gives additional details including notation and tap on how to play this song.
Okay, after the introduction, which is a full bar and this is with John Lennon’s imagination. The bass comes in for the verse which is an 8th bar pattern. I am going to play with the metronome and then we will talk through it.
Okay, those of you with keen ears should have heard the 2/4 bass sections that make up that 8th bar pattern are almost identical. They are near the last two notes that change. So, look at the first four bar pattern first. It starts off with the bar which is comprised of C which is fretted at the 3rd fret of the A string and G and you play four notes of each. It sounds like this. Now, you notice there that rather than fretting the G, which is the same fret as this C but on different string with the same finger, I brought my first finger over. In my opinion, you get a clean sound doing now. I will show you again.
Okay, the second bar is three notes of A which is the 5th fret of the E string. The 4th note is a G again at the 3rd fret of the E string and then full notes on the open E string. Then the 3rd bar is four notes of F which is the 1st fret of the E string and three notes of G which is the 3rd fret of the E string and then up to B which is the second fret of the A string. So, that bass sounds like this. And then, the final bar of this full bar pattern is four notes of C, two notes of A which is 5th fret of the E string, and then G and B again, third fret of the E string and second fret of the A string. So, that bar sounds like this.
Okay, the second full bar of the same old pattern are almost identical. The only two notes that are different are the very last two notes. What you do is instead of going G and then B, you stay on the G so the whole full bar pattern sounds like this. And that is the difference there at that last beat.
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