How to Play Jamming for Bass Beginners

Question: How to Play Jamming for Bass Beginners? Paul Wolfe: Hi, it's Paul Wolfe from how-to-play-bass.com here. I am with another series of video lessons looking how to play simple bass lines, for people who are just starting out or been playing for a few months and looking for tunes to play. And today's tune we are going to look at this Jamming by Bob Marley and this is Plankton's play, a big fan of Bob Marley. He first played songs in the great band, based on originally played by a guy called Austin, family man Barrette, if you don't know. Before we get started I just want to recommend that you head over with my website how-to-play-bass.com don't forget all the hyphens and sign up from my easy, its free, its monthly. Each month we look at a lesson or a base line on how to play through tune. So you have to head over and sign off for that if you haven't already signed up. And we will get cracking with the tune. This is quiet an easy tune, this there is only three parts in the tune that you go to learn to play. There is the chorus, the verse, and there is the like of bridge section on to the lyric Holy man Zion. So the chorus is also serves as the intro so that's the good places and need to get started to. So let's get looking at it. Okay, the verse is a very simple four bar pattern play through the metronome. And the metronome sets in 90 so it's a bit slower than the original. One, two three, four. Okay, just turn the metronome off. Very simple note-wise, I will talk through the notes. The first bar is just B which is the seventh fret of the E string. Now, it's the rhythm you are playing with begin record this is a twelve A or shuffle field underlying this, so you play that bar again and. If you have listened to the original, the Bob Marley original, you'll get an idea of have that rhythmic feels. And second bar and I will count through it, because it actually doesn't play on the down base, so, it will be, one, two three, four one. So, again, so just one note, which is A the seventh fret of the A string. So one, two, three, four, one two, three, four. Again if you listen closer to the original you get that rhythm. The third and the fourth notes, I will do it together. One, two three, four. So you have only got two notes there, you have got J just the fifth frets of the D string and F sharp which is the fourth fret of the D string. Okay, so that should be very straight forward. If you play through the whole pattern with the record you should be able to get that rhythm. I will play the whole four bars again two, three, four. Okay the verse, is also a four bar pattern. Again its fairly straight forward, fairly similar notes, to the last patterns and you want different notes, but it is certainly different. So I will play-through the metronome three, four. Okay, I will turn the metronome off. So have a look at those notes. It starts of in bay, with bay, which is seventh fret of the E string again. Okay, and then it goes up to eight, but there is a passing note which is D, which is the fifth fret of the A string and then you go up to E at the seventh fret of the A string, so you have to go. And it repeats that and when you go down, use the D before you go to the B again, so do it slowly. And the second two bars are this. So starts off in G, which is the fifth fret of the D string. So you go G, G, G, D, open D, back to G, F sharp which is the fourth fret of the D string. And then the next part is its all F sharps fourth fret of the D string set for that note that, which is C sharp four fret of the A string. So I will play those two bars slowly in G, so you could really see what's going on and again, so that should, You've got all the notes, so you should be able to pick the rhythm up from that, that's the verse pattern. The only pattern to go left is the bridge. Okay, the bridge. This is the section under the lyric Holy Man Zion; it's a neat pop pattern. Play with the metronome three, four. Then you be back into the verse, etcetera. Okay, let's look at the notes. So this is a very simple pattern the first four bars is two bar section that repeats. That's the two bar so the notes you have got are A and B. To start with a fifth frets for the E string, B seven frets to the E string. Okay and then the next two notes of D and A. On the A string, fifth, seventh frets respectively so that two bar pattern, which repeats becomes a four bar pattern. It is this two, three, four. And then you just got some steps on the bay which is seventh fret of the E string and then from there you go back to verse three, four etcetera. So that was jamming by Bob Marley. It is very straight, if you watch each section carefully, may be make some notes, jot down the fret locations, while you are playing it. Anyway, don't forget to head over to my websites and sign up, its easy, if you didn't already, and I'll see you in the next lesson that I do.