How to Play Bass: Basic Fingering - Practice
Okay, so we want to go up here to the fret. On the twelfth fret is marked by usually two dots. And so we are going to go from zero fret which is the open string up to the twelfth fret, okay. So, follow me on this exercise. What I want you to do is, we are going to move our hand down in position every time we complete one of the cycles. We move to the next fret okay. So we are going to start on the first fret. 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4 okay and the next time we will start it from the second fret 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4. Then next time we will start it from the third fret 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4. Then next time we will start it from the fourth fret 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4. Then next time we will start it from the fifth fret 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4. Now remember when you are doing this. I want to hear the metronome, so that we can play all of our notes evenly. Okay and we are going to continue this pattern up to the twelfth fret. Okay, so I am going to do it a little faster, then you should do it. But you will see how the concept works 1-2-3-4. Okay, then we will have it all the way it all the way up to twelfth fret. Now you say like “what is that going to do?” well, everything that you play is some type of fingering. Okay, so if I was playing, we are actually doing 4-1-2-4-1-2-4-1-2-4-1 -2 or. That is actually 3-1-4-2 okay, so it is important even before we learn the notes. You know what you like and how it sounds. So all of this different fingerings will help you move forward. So if you look at my finger in chart and look at it, it has every possible fingering. The 1-2-3-4 is just the basic one that we are starting with. That is the most simplest one that we can do. It is not very difficult and there are ones that are very difficult because your hands are not used to them. Like 3-1-4—2 it is very awkward for your hand. But if you practice it every day, it will be very fluent. But we want to remember that we want to stay simple and, stay simple and stay within your self. So that you can get better as you improve. Now I tell you one of the things that we are going to learn also at the same time is about time, how to play in time. Because that is the one of the important things, and you want to have some fun while you do things. So, the reason I told you to start of with a certain bit on the metronome is because not only do we want to do this as. If you did this, just like this with the bit of the metronome, and you had the click at 80 bits. You would be playing quarter notes, okay. So to build up left hand dexterity, we are doing the fingering. With the charts okay. To build up the right hand, we need to do things that are fast. So at 80 bits per minute, not only do I want you to do the 1-2-3-4. I want you to subdivide that in half. And so that after you do it all the way to twelfth fret. Then we want to come back and do that same exercise 1-2-3-4. Playing with the right hand twice as fast