Bass Guitar Introduction

[quomanuk]

Hello and welcome to this new section. To be honest I have a very basic concept of bass playing.

The aim is to introduce anyone that has no music knowledge or at 1st time Bass player.

Today we will look at how read a TAB , tune a 4 Stringed Bass and find all the notes on the Bass Guitar.


Please feel at anytime to add threads or discussions as this site was set up to pass on info that helps everyone.

 




 

[quomanuk]

HOW TO READ A BASS TAB

A Bass Tab will have 4 lines on it.

The top line represent the 1st sting that is tuned to G
The line below the G note is tuned to D
The line below the D note is tuned to A
Final line( bottom line of the 4 lines) is tuned to E

See the attached file for the tuning notes

[quomanuk]

Lets now look at the 4th string E.

There is 12 notes in any from of music

This tab will help us to find all the 12 notes on the E string.

The metal strips on the Bass are know as frets. Try and find the 1st fret (closet to the nut i.e. all the 4 string will run on top of the NUT( they like 4 slots) now try any finger to begin with and place it behind the fret( finger | (|=fret) (and press it down and the with right hand hit that 4th string and clear sound should happen and don`t worry it it buzzes as it does take some time to practice a clean sound)

I may try a video for this to help you along with texts. Tab below with all the 12 frets. As a bonus I have left each open string (A D G) so that we can see that that open string can be found on the E sting.

[quomanuk]

Final part
This tabs is help you find each note on all 4 string. We only play one note not all 4 as you have might have guessed at that would be impossible.

Like for example we want to play an E note

From the tab we can see that
E string is Open
A string 7th fret
D string 2nd fret
G string 9th fret

Hence in your own time you can find any note on any string

Again if needed we could do a video to demonstrate this idea.