I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down Bass Lesson

I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down Bass Lesson The chorus is an 8-bar pattern. Let’s play with the metronome and then talk through the notes. One, two, three, four— [Demonstration] So this 8-bar section of the chorus is made up of two 4-bar patterns. First—and they’re identical. The first 4-bar pattern very similar to what we’ve already played earlier on C, C, G, A, C, A. Now, on that last A, the first A I play it at fifth fret so fifth of D string but the last A or the second A in that bar I play on the open string which allows my hand to shift for the second bar which is in F. So C, G, A, C, A there’s an open A. Then the second bar is F, open A, A sharp, B, A natural where A open string. And then you’re back into the pattern. The next chorus is the same as the first part then down to F again. So F, A, A sharp, B so pretty straight forward I play it really slowly and you can see and hear what I’m doing. And if you write those notes down and correlate into this you should be able to pick it up. [Demonstration] And the second 4-bars direct repeats of the first 4-bars. Now, only leaves the bridge. [Demonstration] The bridge is 9-bar section. Let’s play with the metronome, talk through the notes. One, two, three, four— [Demonstration] So first two bars on F, F here the third fret of D string so you’ve got F, F, C, third fret of the A string, E, second fret of the D string F, third fret of D string back to C. Then the second bar is identical except the last note instead of being a C is the open A string. So first two bars— [Demonstration] And the second two bars are in C so that’s C, C, G, A, C, A, all those location same as we’ve used before. The second bar in C, the fourth bar in the bridge slightly different. So you’ve got C, C, D, D, E, E, D, fifth fret of the A string or open D string, E second fret of the D string. Then, you’ve got another bar in F similar to what we played previously but slightly different. So it’s F, F, C, D, D, C. And the next bars in D so that notes are D, D, A, C, D, D. And the last two bars in G is kind of a fill. [Demonstration] So the first bar and the first note was on the low G which is the third fret of the E string. Then the next seventh notes or seventh or eight so this bar are at the octave of G at the fifth fret of the D string so— [Demonstration] And then the very last bar is which is three notes on the G, open A, open A and two 8th notes of B to finish that section off. Play that section too slowly. [Demonstration] And then you’re back into the course then repeats and fades. So that was I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down, the Elvis Costello version, a great driving baseline and great fun to play. You should have enough info to get through it because if you’re a member you’ve got the notation to PDF. If you’re a beginner, the best way for you to make forward progress is to take lessons with a good teacher. If you can’t find a teacher where you live, I do, do interactive online lessons for beginners. There’s a link in the description box just to the left of this video. If you’re interested use the link and hop over to my website and have a look. It’s not of interest and I hope this video helps you learn this song so really, really good fun, great tunes play so please learn it. Enjoy. I’ll catch you in my next video lesson.