From the course: Bass: Teach Yourself
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Playing notes on the G and D strings
From the course: Bass: Teach Yourself
Playing notes on the G and D strings
- All right, we've learned notes on the G string and on the D string. Now let's practice crossing those strings. When you pick with your right hand, you want to land on the string above it. If I'm playing the D string it looks like this. When I play the G string it looks like this. You might want to practice just going between those notes until that feels really comfortable to where you don't even have to look at your right hand. You can just look at anywhere in the room and your hands can just do that naturally, and then you can start adding your fretting hand to that. Let's check out this next example which moves between notes on the D string and the G string. Are you ready? Here we go. (drumsticks tapping) (alow rock guitar music) All right, now we're going to move on to some real music in that you're playing a Blues form, and so much of Rock and Roll and a lot of other styles of music are based on the Blues. This is a 12 bar Blues form and it just gets you used to playing notes on…
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