Video: Playing Staccato Lines on Bass Guitar

Play staccato to abbreviate or cut-off notes, rather than letting them ring when playing bass guitar; learn how from our expert bass guitar player and teach in this free music instructional video.

Video Transcript

CASEY CORMIER: Okay. So we have discussed all of this reading rhythm and reading time signatures but we have been playing things just in the typical way we played with plucking our fingers but we're going to do this but we're going to add something rhythmic aspect to our play. Basically this is called the staccato play, what we've been playing we could call legato basically where we let the note ring until we play the next note. Staccato is where we play the notes but in a punctuated fashion. So if we played single notes let us say A, one, two, three, four, one, two, these are legato notes. Now staccato one, two, three, four, are cut off; one, two, three four. If we alternate staccato and legato it would be one, two three, four. So we use our hand here if we are playing an open note to mute the note after we play it, just come down on it, do not put any pressure just stop the note from ringing. Now if we are playing a note let us say C we just release the pressure but we do not take our finger off the note if we are going back to it.

Playing Staccato Lines on Bass Guitar

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