From the course: Bass: Teach Yourself
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Eighth notes
- Alright, moving on to eighth notes. So far our fastest time has been doing quarter notes, that is where you're playing one note each beat. Eighth notes go exactly twice as fast, so you are playing two notes each beat. The reason why it's called eighth notes is because if you're in four four time, then there are eight notes each measure. So, also getting use to playing this, I'd like to suggest you guys use two different fingers, so both the index and middle finger in alternation. So, the quarter note would still be doing the strong beat on like one, two, three, four, and then the middle finger will be doing every note in between that on the and, so it would be, one, and, two, and, three, and, four, and. Let's check out this next example which uses quarter notes and eighth notes. (rhythmic tapping) (guitar music) Excellent, now let's move between a few different strings using these new eighth note rhythms. Here we go. (rhythmic tapping) (guitar music) Excellent, so keep in mind as…
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