Hi, and welcome back to week two of Bass Lessons in the music coach program. This week, we're going to get into playing the notes that make up the A section of our song. As the bass player, it's really important that you not only know the order that the notes go in, but rhythmically, where they sit. Now all the bass notes in this program are going to take up one bar, which means they're going to get four beats. Now if you're not sure about how that works, there's a rhythm video that starts before the course that explains how rhythm works, and different types of notes like whole notes and half notes and quarter notes. But it's important to understand that for this next part, because what we're going to be doing is playing the notes that make up the A section as whole notes and then as half notes So the order of the notes for this part are E, G, C, and D. So we're going to play e open as the E string, G is going to be played on the third fret of the E string with your number one finger.

C is going to be played on the third fret of the A string with your number one finger. And D is going to be played on the fifth fret of the A string with your number one finger, or if your hands are big enough, you can play it with your third finger. Let's go over those again. He is open on the E string, G is on the third fret of the E string. C is on the third fret of the A string, and d is on the fifth fret of the A string. Now in the beginning, when you're playing bass, you might find that it's harder to push down the string and hold it then you thought, it looks easy when you're watching somebody play from the front.

But the distance you actually have to push the string down to hold it is further than most people think. It's why your thumb is a really important part of the technique. Your thumb is the thing that's giving you the leverage to hold the string down. And when you hold a string down, on an instrument like this, what you're actually doing is shortening the length of the string. So you're pushing down so hard that the string is only this long. Now.

It's no longer going from here to here. It's coming from here to here. You have to push it and hold it. If you're getting buzzing. You might be too close to the frets or not holding quite hard enough. So in the practice video again, you're going to be working on playing whole notes which take up four beats, and half notes which take up two beats.

Great work and we'll see in the practice video