FIRST TUNE WITH BASS

[PaulS]

This bloke on youtube helped me get started on controlling left and right hand movements;

https://www.youtube.com/user/TonyGuitar1/videos

 

[DonnieDubh]

Good Vid Paul thankyou have trolled through youtube and still find new people everytime .There's always plenty of people doing fancy thing but I always like the back to basics sawdust on the floor vids :tup:

 

[PaulS]

Yes indeedy, the way he explains it helped me a lot. From the bass of 'School's out' I almost got to 'Captain Pugwash'! It's in there somewhere heh heh...

 

[george garside]

good stuff! and well worth using by anyone in the very early stages of struggling to get both ends working together.

Note that he is advocating ''staccatto'' bass to go along with legato treble. This is a most important bit of technique to get the hang of early on and worth persevering with .

The 'lesson'' is greatly simplified by using a tune with presumably one long note per bar which equates to 4 'beats' on the bass. What he is doing is a variation on um pa, um pa,etc . He is playing UM<PA<PA<PA so its the same 4 beats to a bar but sounds a bit different. On this example you can vary it by playin UM PA - UM PA for some bars.

The tune daisy daily (daily bell) can be used in a similar way to bet the hang of a waltz rhythm on the bass. The first 4 bars contain only one long note which in bass terms equates to UM PA PA, so just keep playing the first 4 bars of daisy daisy until the 2 ends work together and then try progressing further into the tune retaining a steady UM PA PA rhythm

As to which bass to use learn to busk in the 3 chord trick using bass and major chord thus.--- start off with on the diagonal row of the key you are ;playing the melody in so if in C put fingers on C bass and C major chord. Play the appropriate um pa or um pa pa rhythm on those 2 buttons in time with what you are doing on the treble. When the bass sounds out of tune try the row above i.e. G or the row below i.e. F. when one of these sound wrong try C again. One of the 3 diagonal rows will sound right! The more you do this the more it becomes intuitive . The 3 chord trick is absolutely fine as is but of course once you get the hang of it you have the choice of doing all sorts of ohther things on the bass should you feel the need!


george

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