How to Read a Bass Chart in G

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to go take a look at G major, and we'll look at it on our chart first, and then we'll bring it to the bass. So if you look at our handy dandy chart here, and you can print this out if you click at the link at the top of the screen. We have G major, and here it is on our third fret that we've marked off, these being the open strings, right, and you have your low string, middle string, going up to your high string, so we have here, G, A, B, C, D, E, F sharp, G, and that's how we go up. We're going up, up, up, up, up, up, up. And then we also have F, E, and A, and B doubled over here, and, we're just going from G to G right now, and walking that goes up the scale. So we have here, right, we have third, open, second, third, open, second, fourth, open. And then you got second and fourth. And that's your G major scale, and what you want to do for fingering is make sure you have two, open, one, two, open, one, four, open, one, four. And by doing this, you'll always be right on the right frets. And notice you don't have to move your hand out around at all, because we're playing all in first position."