Okay, the pre chorus as with the verse. There are hundreds of ways to play this, a nice easy, what I’m gonna show you is a nice easy way and even just using the notes I’m showing you in the fingering I’m showing you, you can make it sound different by throwing in some rhythmic variations. Basically it’s a two bar pattern and it starts off with the chord of D minor and then it goes up to the chord of A minor. So here’s how you can start it… okay. So, those notes are, for the first bar in D minor, you’ve got, D, which is the 5th fret of the A string, and E, 7th fret of the A string, F at the 8th fret of the A string, G, 5th fret of the D string, that’s the first bar. Then the second bar, you go up to A, at the 7th fret of the G string, then you drop down to the open A string, which allows your hand to slide, and you can play B, 2nd fret of the A string, and C the 3rd fret of the A string, and that leads you set up to then repeat that pattern starting on the D again. But, as I say there’s hundreds of ways that you can play it and give it rhythmic variety. Then at the end of the pattern, you’ve got those two hits or stabs. They are D, which is the 5th fret of the A string and E, which is the 7th fret of the A string. Chorus is the one section of the tune where you don’t vary it, there’s no, you really got to stick to what you’re playing, because it’s kinda like a riff and other instruments in the band will be playing this riff. Play it to you really slowly, and then we’ll through the notes. Okay, that’s the main pattern. The first three notes are… which is the open E string, then G, 3rd fret on the D string, and then A, which is 5th fret on the E string. So it’s… okay, then those second three notes are A, 5th fret of the E string again, C, 3rd fret of the A string, and D, which is the 5th fret of the A string. And then basically you shift the pattern up two frets and then you’re playing the same thing again. Which is the same notes but up a notch, so you got E, which is the 7th fret of the A string, G, which is the 5th fret of the D string, and A the 7th fret of the D string. And the last three notes are A, 7th fret of the D string, C, the 5th fret of the G string, and E, the 7th fret of the G string. So, the pattern goes, shift up… back to the start… shift up… back to the start… shift up… and last time… instead of playing the last three notes, it goes back down to E, which is the 7th fret of the A string, and hold that note before you go back to the verse. Okay, so that was Moondance by Van Morrison, gave you some ideas on how to play through that. They’re more appropriate for a band setting than playing along with the record. As I discuss in the intro, the record, the bass line is, is very much jazzier, very much all over the place a bit. So these are more for, someone says it’s a jam or let’s play Moondasnce on a gig on Saturday. These lines will help you get going, get you through that. Don’t be afraid to try some rhythmic variations. Feel free to try some other note variations too. Now don’t forget, there’s a sketch PDF that goes with this, but to receive it, you need to subscribe to my escene. And when my escene comes out on Friday, there’ll be a link to where you can find the PDF for this and for some of the previous lessons too. Okay, I’m Paul from how-to-play-bass.com, I’ll see you in the next lesson.
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