Learning to Play Bass Guitar

A bass guitar is a four-stringed instrument that usually accompanies a lead guitar. Some guitars have additional strings adding up to a 5 or 6 strings.  They have lower tones. An electric guitar is plugged into an amplifier for a better sound experience.

In learning to play one, you have to know that this is played by plucking the strings with your finger or your thumb. Plucking refers to the action of pulling or tugging the string. The more experienced guitar players usually use a "pick" in plucking. For beginners like you, it's okay to use your fingers. Some bassist even use "slapping" in playing a tune to add that percussive effect to it. Fretting is also done and as well as the "mute technique."

Another thing to note when you are learning to play bass guitar is that bass guitars have different notes than a standard guitar, basically because of the structure of the bass guitar itself (4-stringed). A bass guitar only plays one note at a time and no chords. When learning to play bass guitar, be familiar with the following notes: A,A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#. Take note that B and E has no sharp equivalents. As you move higher on the fret board, notes increase in value therefore you simply have to move up or down to find the note you are trying to play, going down you get to play flat notes while moving up means sharps.

Assuming you're a right handed person holding the bass guitar, the guitar neck would be on your left side. Using a chromatic scale, the top string would be the E-string.

The E-string is composed of the following notes in ascending order: E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E.
The following string is the A-string A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A
Next is the D-string composed of: D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B, C, C#, D.
Last one is the G-string with G, G#, A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G.

In doing the flats, just do this in reverse order and change the sharps to flats.

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