The next thing we want to do, we want to press one finger on one fret. The next finger on the next fret. The next finger on the next fret. The third finger on the third fret and the fourth finger on the fourth fret. So once again, that is the first finger on the first fret, second finger on the second fret, third finger on the third fret, fourth finger on the fourth fret. And, what we are going to do is, we still not using our right hand, but what we want to do is an exercise that is just very basic and it is basic – one of your hand strafe build in things.
So, when we press here (Music Demo), I want to keep my hands, which is very important is to keep my hand in the middle of the neck in the back of the bass. Why this? Because if you grab your hand, this is the strongest way you can grab something. So, by keeping your hand and being able to let use it as lever, you should be able to make your bass, make a sound, as you hear here (Music Demo).
So basically, we are going to start off going one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, okay. Let us try that again, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, okay. So, once you start to do this with your hand, you will get more fluid with it and you will start to notice that your hand can do things that it had been done.
Now, when we talk about playing the bass, one of the things that is really important to playing the bass is right hand-left hand coordination. So, we are going to use – what I want you to do is that we are going to start off at the same exercise that we did already with just our left hand. We are going to introduce the right hand and we are going to do set the metronome at a tempo that you can play comfortable. So it does not matter how slow it is, the important thing is to get the note to ring. So, we are going to introduce our right hand to playing, we are going to alternate sort of like walking. So, if you can look our alternate between my first and second finger, it is kind of like walking one after the other.
What we are going to do is, I want you to do basically the same thing on all four strings with your right hand that we did with the left, except this would be the right hands warm up exercise. So, we are going to go, one, two, three, four on every string. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, let us do that last one again because I did not get that correctly. One, two, three, four, okay. Once again, that is one, two, three, four, on the E string. One, two, three, four, on the A string. One, two, three, four, on the D string. One, two, three, four, on the G string.
Once you have done all of these, this is a good warm up for you to do. It does not matter how slow you will go, it does matter that you make the notes ring out. So that is the important thing. The important thing we are learning here is how to make the notes ring out and how to first make contact with my bass.
The next step that we will move to is to getting the right and the left to play at the same time. So what we are going to do, we are going to back to our one, two, three, four with the left hand and we are going to implement that on each string with the right hand. So basically, we will be going one, two, three, four, and we will do when the first note that I strike with the left and the right hand, they will be simultaneous. So the first note would be one, second note would be two, the third note would be three, fourth would be four. The same thing that we did with the left hand before going to one, two, three, four, but only will be including our right hand. So we got one, two, three, four and let us try it on every string. (Music Demo) one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, okay. You are saying, “Alright, how can this help me get faster?” Well, the whole idea with this exercise, what you should build up to is to do the one, two, three, four, the entire 12 frets of the bass.
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