Video: Upright Bass With Guitar Style Fingering

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Use four individual fingers to play four notes in succession. Learn upright bass guitar style fingering in this free stringed instrument video lesson from a music teacher.

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evuser13476 Aug 02, 2008
Branson, I was thrilled to find your video clip on bowing the string bass. How about expanding it demonstrate different style of notes. As a beginner I need to see and hear various types of notes. Really good stuff, thanks , grm

Video Transcript

OK, let's talk about a different way of using our left hand. We're going to do what's called guitar styled fingering. Basically right now we've been using our whole hand, sometimes four fingers to do a span of just three notes. But as especially as we move up the neck to where the notes are not as far apart, we find that we can play the notes four notes in succession, using four individual fingers. Now you're going to want make sure your bass is set up correctly. If the action is very high you're going to have a hard time playing that way. So if you find that's the case, disregard this for now until you can maybe get your bass set up. But let's go up to where we're playing that D note on that string. And what we can do is just move right up there so you're all the way, your hand can kind of rest here on the heel of the neck. And just play the D, E-flat, E, F. If your hands are a little bigger you might be able to move down to where you're playing the C, C-sharp, D, D-sharp. And remember when you get them all down, all your fingers are down, and you're not going to lift them up an inordinate amount. But keep them right there so they're ready to use.

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Upright Bass With Guitar Style Fingering

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