How to Play Along on Bass Guitar Video Lecture - Guitar Become a Pro (English)

as guitar player is one of the most fun
and rewarding things we can do is pray
on the insecurities of bass players so
today I want to talk a little bit about
how you can fundamentally use some
principles of playing bass guitar to
match maybe like a chord progression on
guitar or something like that
now it might actually be a more useful
video to talk about the relationship
between bass and drums or percussion but
that might be a different video right
now we're just going to kind of talk
about how we can use the principles of a
root note a fifth and an octave to
follow what a guitar thing is doing if
maybe you have to like sit in a gig or
something like that right now all joking
aside bass is actually a very nuanced
instrument and to really master it takes
just as much precision as anything else
but we're going to kind of simplify it
and just bring it down to a couple notes
and the bare minimum of what you need to
do to just fill a certain sonic space
and kind of mesh with another instrument
right so again what I mean by a root
note and a fifth basically if we look at
oh and like if you don't know most bass
guitars have four or five strings and on
a fourth string like this one is tuned
to most of the time to the exact same
thing a regular standard guitar student
so e a D and G right so what we're going
to do is we're going to pretend there is
a guitar player playing just a g chord
right a G major chord and a G on a bass
is going to be the third fret of the low
E string right so just like a guitar so
far in fact a lot of the same riffs you
can do on a guitar you can play in the
exact same way on a bass so right now
we're gonna follow a G major chord with
a root note so the bare minimum that you
can do if somebody's playing a G chord
is just play the pulse of a G note just
like that right now to kind of step it
up a little bit you're gonna add the v
so if you don't know what a v is i did
another video on power chords to kind of
explain that a little more detail but
we're gonna sue mute you know the fifth
note of any key or any note is gonna be
an down a string back two frets right so
this is my root note on g v g a b c d is
going to be the fifth fret of the a
string so root note and it's v one v and
gonna get that from the major scale one
two three four five
six seven eight so the eight is
something I want to talk about - this is
an octave right if you really want to
just kind of do the bare minimum amount
of bass just follow along with the
chords playing the root the fifth and
the octave but you can kind of do some
cool stuff just kind of by manipulating
the Pulsifer right so I'm gonna do a
guitar loop in a second to kind of
demonstrate this but let's just say
there is some kind of music going on the
background that has a progression of G
major D major B minor you just start out
finding those notes right there's a G -
a D - a B which is the seventh fret on
the low E string right so the minimum
you can do is just one two three four -
D to the B right now the next addition
you could make would be to add v d-v
okay and then after that you could add
the octave okay all I'm doing is kind of
jumping around and pulsing those
different notes and playing them in kind
of like a rhythmic percussive way right
so we're going to do now is we're going
to do a different example where I'm
going to set up a guitar loop and I'm
going to demonstrate how you can use
simple methods to follow along with so
I'm going to lay down a kind of busy
guitar part depression is going to be a
prickly in FM 87 I'm going to go to E
flat major seven - so we're thinking of
this in the key of B flat so the loop is
going to sound like thanks
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all right so let's find the root note
for each of those we can start with this
F right here which is the eighth fret on
the a-string right and then so we have
this app and it's v now another cool
thing about bass is you can actually if
you're rooting on the a string you can
pay it play v below which is just up a
string right so here's an F it's v is a
seed you can play it here be a buddy
here we're going to go back to frats to
the E flat and then we're going to go up
a string to the B flat right so I'm
going to be using is a root a fifth
below or an octave so with the loop I'm
going to start by playing just the root
note over and over again right so
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and the five
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and now the cool thing is if you notice
this we kind of have this little pattern
of 1 5 8 just in this area now this is
all going to be kind of staying in the
same key for the most part we can use it
the fifth and the actives of previous
cords right so let's sit let's kind of
focus on use the app is a Steven stone
right here if I get to the second
quarter I can play the 1 and the 5 and
kind of go back into the prior chords
that's right so you could be like so I'm
offering 1 2 a 5
into another chords 5th right so if we
kind of start adding notes from other
chords in the same riff we can get a
little busier
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so really as long as you know the root
note of the chord you always have
something that you can do on basis by
getting to the root and adding the fifth
doesn't even matter if it's major minor
because major minor chords have the same
v it's the third that separates them so
I'll probably do maybe another video
kind of like getting more into playing a
little more melodically and like using
modes and stuff like that too but for
just an intro and kind of moving around
the neck just follow those root notes
add the five and add the eight and it's
going to sound great