Hi, welcome back. This is week seven of Bass Lessons in the music coach program. This week, you're gonna be learning how to play the melody to the A section of our song. When you play bass, you don't always end up in a situation where you have to play the melody. But I really believe no matter what instrument you're on, you should always have a really good understanding of the chords and harmony and the bass part as well as the melody no matter what instrument you're on. This allows you to change up the roll that you're doing inside the band.
Or if you're playing a duet with someone else, it allows you to trade off, you can play the melody and then you could be playing the bass part and the other person can be switching back and forth with you. And also it helps you to keep track of where you are inside the song when you really know the melody well. And knowing the melody is also the beginning stages. of getting into improvising, which is a really fun and inspiring part of playing music. So here are the notes for the melody in the A section, we're going to start by playing B. I'm going to play B again, C, then the D string open. Then we're going to go up and play the fifth fret of the D string, which is G, G, F sharp, E, on the D string.
Then E, ci, F sharp, F sharp G, F sharp, E, D, which is the part we learned earlier on that we added in our bass part. So here are the notes again. B, B, C, D, G, F sharp, e, x. G, F sharp, F sharp G, F sharp, E, D. So in the practice video, you're going to first work on playing the notes slowly out of time, and then along with the click track, and then eventually along with the play along video. Like I said before, learning to play the melody is a great way to get deeper into knowing your song, it's eventually going to lead you into becoming a much more versatile musician. And also the knowledge that you gain learning the melody and the bass will apply to the any other instrument that you play like a guitar if you pick up a saxophone or a flute or a piano, whatever you learn, you take it with you wherever you go.
Keep up the great work and we'll see in the practice video