How to Play the Bass Line for Can't Stand Losing You - 2
Okay, the last section that we’re gonna look at today for this tune is the sort of the bridge. Now, the first part of the bridge has got a kinda triplet rhythm, and what Sting actually plays on the record can be quite difficult for beginners to, to get a handle on. So, I teach you the little simpler than that. The notes, pretty much are the same as what I’m gonna show you, so if you wanna go to the original Police recording, and have a listen to what he does and try and copy the rhythms, then of course please do that. But if you wanna play something slightly simpler that would get you through the song, if you’re playing it in the band or a jam, that’s what I teach, my beginning students. Anyway, it goes like this. Okay, we’ll break that, that’s the first part of the bridge, we’ll break that section down. Starts off to B flat triad, if you don’t know what a B flat triad is don’t worry. Something you’ll cover later when you look at more theory of whoever’s teaching you, but it basically starts on B flat at the 6th fret of the E string, and then the second two notes are D and F and they are the 5th fret of the A string and the 8th fret of the A string. And you can vary the rhythm with how you play those. However you feel like, but if you get those three notes in, bit of rhythmic variety, you’re pretty much there. Then the second, the second part of that is again, is major triad, but up to C, now you can do it like this, which is just moving the pattern up from B flat to C and if you do that the frets would be C, 8th fret of the E string, E, 7th fret of the A string, and G, 10th fret of the A string. Now, however, I prefer to play it like this, and you’ve seen it if you watched the sections where I play along with the, the midi file accompaniment. So that’s B flat, then when you go to C, I prefer to go like this. So what I’m doing is I’m playing C on the 8th fret of the E string with my forefinger, and playing E the 7th fret of the A string with my third finger, and then G at the 5th fret of the D string with my first finger. It’s the same sound, but what you get is you don’t have to move out of position. It’s just my personal preference, if you wanna play it by sliding the shape up, if that’s easy for you, then, then do what’s easier. Now, you’ll notice in the second bar of the C, the last time it was played, it then went up and do the modulation or is really set you up for the next section. That’s just the A which is at the 7th fret of the D string, and then you go into the section under the lyric of I guess this is our last goodbye, and that’s just D, and you play that for 8 bars. Now, what I did on the, the play-alongs was in the, last bar, vary it slightly and also to slide back to put my hand back in position for the pre chorus, I did this. So, all I’m doing there is varying it by using some octaves. And of course the octave of D from the 5th fret of the A string is there, which is the 7th fret of the G string. Okay, that was Can’t Stand Losing You. I hope you enjoyed playing along with that. It’s great little tune. If you read any of the stuff from my website, you’ll know that I really like Sting. If you see any of my videos I’ve thought, have to play Message in a Bottle and Every Breath You Take as well. Sting’s really cool for people who’ve played for a short while looking for tunes to put under their belt. There’s a ton of great songs by the Police that you can learn or will help you both, bass playing and be fun to play with as well. As I said at the start of the lesson, there is gonna be a PDF that goes with this and just gives those sections notated out so you can actually see that. It’s not ready yet but if you go to my website and subscribe to the escene, you’ll find out where to get it as soon as it’s available. Okay, thanks for watching. Look out for the next one. I’m Paul Wolf from how to play bass, see you later.