Bass Guitar Fingerings Instrument
October 15th, 2007 | 
Author: Any good tips for learning Bass Guitar? Or where to buy one?
I’m learning how to play bass guitar for a garage band that my friends and I are starting. Before yesterday, I had never touched a bass guitar. Do you have any tips for a beginner? Preferably, where to buy a good, cheap guitar, or fingerings, instrument care, etc?
Buy a new one on musiciansfriend.com or buy it used from craigslist. I suggest that if you don’t already know how to find notes on the fretboard that you learn.
You don’t have to know every note you play, just how to find out by just looking at it. The guitar players will be playing certain chord progressions and the most prominent chord is what you want to figure out.
Let’s say it’s C, so now you can play all the notes in the C scale and you will be in harmony with the rest of the song. He might play other chords where it goes to a different key, but mostly you’ll want to stick around that C.
You’ll want to learn modes and scales. The minor pentatonic scale is the most common, while learning all of the modes will give your fingers a good muscle memory of the right notes. Once you learn scales and modes you can just move your hands up or down the fretboard up or down depending on what key you are in.
Keep it simple. There is absolutely no reason to be all over the place and especially with bass. You can make only a few notes sound really good with just how you play them.
Learning finger picking is pretty valuable if you plan to play for years. You’d want to practice that off the bat. Slapping the bass is fun but it takes some practice. You can always use a pick but I think using your fingers is actually easier after you get used to it.
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