Thanks for this. At 49, after decades of dreaming about learning the bass, I'm finally getting one. This video is a godsend. Subbed. Thanks very much, wish me luck. Hopefully I'll be jamming along with Trevor Dunn in no time.
Music is infinite! And you're never to old to learn to play an instrument. I started learning the guitarlele harmonica , tenor ukulele and at 56 the baritone ukulele , at 58 the acoustic guitar and at 59 the bass guitar. Music is funtastic, it helps me be more creative, write songs be inspired and inspiring. Thank you for this awesome pattern. Bass, please! We be jamming all over the fret board ! Ps. It all started for me when I was 11 taking organ lessons and then playing organ and piano at a Baptist church when I was 15 until I was 25. Let the Music play! Let your music play! Always all ways 🎶
I’m 62, I was sent this clip by my son who is an awesome musician he can play everything, very well too….. I have played sax, but a medical episode which has the left side of my mouth partially paralyzed is temporarily preventing me from blowing in it effectively, anyways….. this clip is going to help me learn the fret board so much easier. It is a good step by step process to help memorize frets and fingers to use…. Thanks to my son and to you for this lesson on fret board memorization
Long time player, my bass has been collecting dust for a few years, now. Today this video made it so simple to memorize these notes. Can beleive I bever spent the time to learn my fretboard better 😂
Picked up the bass 2 months ago and was struggling the entire time to map out the fretboard. Saw this vid and had the first 4 frets mapped out in minutes. Thank you SO MUCH for this. It's time to become absolutely unstoppable at this instrument now xD
I don't play bass but I'm considering getting one, and despite being quite musically illiterate, this video surprisingly made some sense to me. If I ever do decide to start playing, I'll definitely be back. Great video!
Heyy! I'm so glad that I ran across this video. I'm a bass player, but I literally just "play around" with it. I'm here to LEARN more. My family and I are a Gospel Bluegrass group, and we're going to have our first album recorded pretty soon, so I'm having to learn a few new originals! I have a hunch that your videos are going to help me a lot. Thanks so much! I'm going to start practicing using this video today!!
Hope it's helpful! To make fast progress, book a 1-2-1 lesson with me here calendly.com/tom-w9a/one-hour-bass-lesson The fretboard diagram from this video as well as all my other Guitar Pros and TABs are now available in one bundle here tomjohns.gumroad.com/l/zukxv
Good luck to all, I started bass as well, next thing you know, you will be playing an acoustic or electric guitar or both. I just got an electric guitar and I swear it was an instrument made for me... I loved bass when I started out, and jamming with friends. Learning bass, definitely helps with lead guitar stuff. Just need to add the B string and the notes.
74+... just Re-learning the Bass since last fall (2022)... after having not played it since I was 18 yrs old (1967),,, and now self learning the Lap & Console Steel guitar, as well as the Mandolin, which I just bought (Loar 310BBF) in October (2023), have some Harmonica's as well, now... but haven't really gotten around to them, Yet! Lol Have fun, guys.
Ha. Self taught these patterns as a teen before youtube even existed. Never needed to know the notes. I didn't even knew bass had notes. I thought all this time it was just a bunch of woops. Learn everyday.
OK, the fretboard part that I'm struggling with is above 14th fret. I never knew my bass had frets 21 to 24. See bass line to Simon and Garfunkel's "America" for details.
ok i found the notefinder and love your videos. Im using the technique you showed C is on the third fret using the third finger, when i got to the next set i don't know if im doing it right. but i started on the 5th fret with the first finger and on the dots use the next dot third finger. I need help.
Awesome concepts and fingerboard cheats to learn as a beginner. Learning these tips really help get the "feel" of the bass. I've been trying to do that on my own for over a year now, and with instruction from other online bass instructors. Appreciate these concepts better than most lessons so far! I subscribed!
Just connected the octaves of a note to the knight on a chessboard!!!!! YAY!!!! Thanks for showing this to me. In public schools, this is called "differentiating". Students can relate other things in life to the objective to make learning easier and more accessible. If it weren't for your teaching of the octave placement of notes, 2 down and 2 over I wouldn't have connected it to chess (although for the knight it's 1 over 2 down or some variation). So, now, I understand completely! :) So, in the future, you (teachers) can mention this kind of thing to your students if you think they need it (visual learners). There are hundreds of other ways to differentiate, and this is one thing the internet is good for. We can find videos to suit our needs. Thanks for being in the right place at the right time!!!
Alright mate, i have been learning the ubass for about 2 months now, since watching your videos, a few days ago, i have advanced more in those few day than what i have in the last couple of months, i can actually play some tunes thanks to you, Al
thanks Alan. I really appreciate that. It's not often I get comments like this, but when I do, it really motivates me. Hope you continue enjoying learning the bass.
I dissagree, you should learn the natural notes first on the entire E-String to first get a feel for both the natural progression of the notes A-G and the BC and EF halfstep "anomaly" and then progress to the A-String, then D-String and G-String. Playing bass for years I can tell you it is a MYTH that you're gonna be playing primarily on the "money notes" (first four frets) because they are the most pronounced, differenciated, clear and best intonated frets (which btw. is all true). BUT the truth is also that they're a lot harder to grab than higher frets and if you're someone like me, who likes to keep notes in a "box" (especially on a 5-string and avoids to alter tunings to keep everything logical and perform things from rather muscle memory and not having to shift around and rethink a lot) you will eventually even avoid playing the money notes and even avoid playing open strings wherever it is convinient UNLESS it is really something that defines the sound in an original song for example the Alice In Chains - Rotten Apple bassline, which is played on the money notes but tuned a half-step down and is impossible to be played in that position on a standard tuned bass (4 or 5-string) so you need to go up the fretboard but it will not sound like the record. I would still play it starting on the 9th fret rather than detuning my bass or shift to another.
I now have a desire to want to learn how to play. I am 53 yrs old and I hope I can do this. I just recently purchased my first ever electric guitar and hope to learn to play that as well.
we have seen this movie before. cant we make a big diplomatic push? why not try a different way this time. militarism is our biggest export ... and we wonder why our citizens go right to a gun to resolve conflict
A print out would have helped though, only thing because I could hardly read my scribbled notes as i watched..If i ever figure out power point im gonna post the notes and credit you of course.
Hi. I'm a beginner and I want to change the whole set of 4 strings on my bass, but I keep breaking the E string as I try to tune it. It breaks when the tuner displays E flat. What am I doing wrong ?
Talking too fast typical that,e why i never learned a thing from a tutor But i now have a quite good grasp of notes just from my ear , not fast talkers 😂
Great beginner's lesson indeed. The octave game really helps master the fretboard indeed. I've used a metronome , starting with A, (play all the A's, move on to B, gets tricky if you don't have it mastered, lol) working up to G...
Great stuff but you showed the octaves 2 down, 2 over but you used different left hand fingers.....hard to follow looking straight on as a viewer.....maybe point out the fuddy duddy details for us 6 yr olds..much obliged.
Walking up a street, all the side streets on your left are sharps. Walking back down the same street, the same side streets, now on your right, are flats. That's how I teach it. Raymondo.
I wouldn't use this technique. As a beginner, learn the Open Strings, G and C on the 3rd fret, A,D,G,C on the fifth fret, and BEAD on the 7th fret. Then fill in the gaps.
This is singularly the most plain explanation and pattern association version of memorizing the bass fretboard that Ive ever seen. After watching your video and running through it a few times, Ive actually got it for the most part...even that last little L shape with DGCF I just think about how people downtune to that tuning and we are at the 12th fret so it works for me,,,thank you so much. AS soon as I get paid I am going to buy you a few cups of coffee bro!!!
wow it's in alphabetical order.... all the strings are in alphabetical order from the note they start on... totally know where all the notes are now... crazy...
Never memorize what you can solve more easily by writing it down. Save the effort of memorizing for what truly needs to be memorized. I marked every fret with the note it plays with a permanent marker. Best improvement I’ve ever enjoyed with an instrument. Now I have the ability someone who knows where every single note is without even thinking.
An excellent find, I bought my first bass yesterday as a retirement present for myself. There is no link in the description to the website of the note generator. The on screen showing gets obscured when pausing the video. As a type/write it down it is doable, but a copy and paste would be a lot easier. Thanks for posting.
Oh thank goodness, i needed that. As someone who's used to keyboards (I.E., nicely ordered notes going left to right) and just started the bass, the fretboard has been perplexing me.
I'm just putting in my two cents here, but I think it's better to allow the sense of spatial relationships develop instead of using a mnemonic to remember standard tuning. There are two natural notes between each one. BCause EFfort is required to do all the little things involved in learning music.
I was looking for a note randomizer to practice for a couple of days now, lucky that I've ran into your video. Thank you so much for all the information!
