Chords for How to find all the notes on the bass guitar in 5 minutes
Tempo:
56.45 bpm
Chords used:
E
G
Bm
A
C#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Bm] [E] [A] [E] You can divide the [G] bass guitar neck into squares.
Every square has its own note.
But instead of remembering all these notes, you only have to know a few of them in order
to fill in the rest of the squares.
Before we start there are a few things you need to know about this diagram.
This diagram represents the bass guitar neck.
The left side is the beginning of the neck, where you find the head of the bass.
The right side is the end of the neck, where you find the body of the bass.
The thicker string is the lowest string in this diagram.
If you have the bass guitar on your lap and you lay it down on the back with the strings
heading to the ceiling, you have the same image as this diagram.
The next thing you need to know is the musical alphabet.
This consists of the first 7 letters of the alphabet.
A B C D E F G.
That means that the same note exists on different places of the neck.
These are the names of the open strings.
For now we work with a standard tuned 4 string bass.
But all this information is directly usable for bass guitars with more or fewer strings.
I will tell more about that later.
But important!
The bass guitar needs to be tuned in the standard tuning.
The R4 tuning.
That means that you tune the strings in the interval of perfect forward.
At first we gonna have a look at the lowest 2 strings.
The E string and the A string.
In this diagram you see a couple of circles.
These are dots and will be almost always at the same place for each bass guitar.
The dots come in handy for remembering the notes.
I will now give you 3 groups of notes.
If you know these, then you can fill in all the other squares on the bass guitar.
This is the first set of notes you need to learn.
As you can see, these notes are situated on the first 3 dots.
Apart from the note F, you can now fill in all the natural notes at one place on the bass guitar neck.
This is the second set of notes you need to learn.
As you can see, these notes are situated around the last separate dot.
This is the last set of notes you need to learn.
These notes do not really have a recognition point, but these are only 2 notes.
Now we know all the notes on the E string and the A string.
But as you can see, there are still squares remain open.
The notes that we have notated are called natural notes and you can lower and raise them.
When you raise a natural note with a semitone, you slide one square to the right in the direction of the body.
This note receives a sharp symbol behind the natural note.
If I raise the note G, I get the note G sharp.
If I raise the note D, I get the note D sharp.
When you lower a natural note with a semitone, you slide one square to the left in the direction of the head.
This note receives a flat symbol behind the natural note.
If I lower the note G, I get the note G flat.
[C#] If I lower the note D, I get the note D flat.
Notes that occur in the same place may have different names.
If I lower the note B, I get the note B flat.
If I raise the note A, I get the note A sharp.
When each name is used will be explained in the action plan.
There is no open square between the notes B and [G] C and the notes E and F.
But that does not mean that these notes can't be lowered or raised.
If I raise the note B, I get the note B sharp.
If I lower the note F, I get the note F flat.
This is less common.
Now you can fill in all the open squares on the E string and the A string.
When you know the notes on the E string and the A string, you can octave up to find the notes on the D string and the G string.
With octaving you play the same note, but it sounds higher or lower.
To play the notes on the bass guitar one octave up, you do the following.
You slide two squares to the right, in the direction of the body,
and two strings upward, in the direction of the G string.
If I want to play the note A on the D string, I'll first search for the note A on the E string,
and then slide two squares to the right and two strings upward.
To play the notes one octave down works the same, but the other way around.
You slide two strings down, in the direction of the E string,
and two squares to the left, in the direction of the head.
When you octave down the notes on the A string, it allows you to find the notes on the low B string.
Now you can find all the notes on all the strings, up to the 12th fret.
On the 12th fret a double dot is drawn.
The neck starts again.
As you can see, these squares are the same notes as the loose strings.
If you look further, you see again single dots.
The same notes as we've seen before are situated on and around these dots.
By learning the three group of notes, you can find the other notes by,
1.
Lowering and raising the notes,
2.
Octaving the notes,
and 3.
Knowing the neck starts
Every square has its own note.
But instead of remembering all these notes, you only have to know a few of them in order
to fill in the rest of the squares.
Before we start there are a few things you need to know about this diagram.
This diagram represents the bass guitar neck.
The left side is the beginning of the neck, where you find the head of the bass.
The right side is the end of the neck, where you find the body of the bass.
The thicker string is the lowest string in this diagram.
If you have the bass guitar on your lap and you lay it down on the back with the strings
heading to the ceiling, you have the same image as this diagram.
The next thing you need to know is the musical alphabet.
This consists of the first 7 letters of the alphabet.
A B C D E F G.
That means that the same note exists on different places of the neck.
These are the names of the open strings.
For now we work with a standard tuned 4 string bass.
But all this information is directly usable for bass guitars with more or fewer strings.
I will tell more about that later.
But important!
The bass guitar needs to be tuned in the standard tuning.
The R4 tuning.
That means that you tune the strings in the interval of perfect forward.
At first we gonna have a look at the lowest 2 strings.
The E string and the A string.
In this diagram you see a couple of circles.
These are dots and will be almost always at the same place for each bass guitar.
The dots come in handy for remembering the notes.
I will now give you 3 groups of notes.
If you know these, then you can fill in all the other squares on the bass guitar.
This is the first set of notes you need to learn.
As you can see, these notes are situated on the first 3 dots.
Apart from the note F, you can now fill in all the natural notes at one place on the bass guitar neck.
This is the second set of notes you need to learn.
As you can see, these notes are situated around the last separate dot.
This is the last set of notes you need to learn.
These notes do not really have a recognition point, but these are only 2 notes.
Now we know all the notes on the E string and the A string.
But as you can see, there are still squares remain open.
The notes that we have notated are called natural notes and you can lower and raise them.
When you raise a natural note with a semitone, you slide one square to the right in the direction of the body.
This note receives a sharp symbol behind the natural note.
If I raise the note G, I get the note G sharp.
If I raise the note D, I get the note D sharp.
When you lower a natural note with a semitone, you slide one square to the left in the direction of the head.
This note receives a flat symbol behind the natural note.
If I lower the note G, I get the note G flat.
[C#] If I lower the note D, I get the note D flat.
Notes that occur in the same place may have different names.
If I lower the note B, I get the note B flat.
If I raise the note A, I get the note A sharp.
When each name is used will be explained in the action plan.
There is no open square between the notes B and [G] C and the notes E and F.
But that does not mean that these notes can't be lowered or raised.
If I raise the note B, I get the note B sharp.
If I lower the note F, I get the note F flat.
This is less common.
Now you can fill in all the open squares on the E string and the A string.
When you know the notes on the E string and the A string, you can octave up to find the notes on the D string and the G string.
With octaving you play the same note, but it sounds higher or lower.
To play the notes on the bass guitar one octave up, you do the following.
You slide two squares to the right, in the direction of the body,
and two strings upward, in the direction of the G string.
If I want to play the note A on the D string, I'll first search for the note A on the E string,
and then slide two squares to the right and two strings upward.
To play the notes one octave down works the same, but the other way around.
You slide two strings down, in the direction of the E string,
and two squares to the left, in the direction of the head.
When you octave down the notes on the A string, it allows you to find the notes on the low B string.
Now you can find all the notes on all the strings, up to the 12th fret.
On the 12th fret a double dot is drawn.
The neck starts again.
As you can see, these squares are the same notes as the loose strings.
If you look further, you see again single dots.
The same notes as we've seen before are situated on and around these dots.
By learning the three group of notes, you can find the other notes by,
1.
Lowering and raising the notes,
2.
Octaving the notes,
and 3.
Knowing the neck starts
Key:
E
G
Bm
A
C#
E
G
Bm
_ [Bm] _ [E] _ [A] _ [E] You can divide the [G] bass guitar neck into squares.
Every square has its own note.
But instead of remembering all these notes, you only have to know a few of them in order
to fill in the rest of the squares.
Before we start there are a few things you need to know about this diagram.
This diagram represents the bass guitar neck.
The left side is the beginning of the neck, where you find the head of the bass.
The right side is the end of the neck, where you find the body of the bass.
The thicker string is the lowest string in this diagram.
If you have the bass guitar on your lap and you lay it down on the back with the strings
heading to the ceiling, you have the same image as this diagram.
The next thing you need to know is the musical alphabet.
This consists of the first 7 letters of the alphabet.
A B C D E F G.
That means that the same note exists on different places of the neck.
These are the names of the open strings.
For now we work with a standard tuned 4 string bass.
But all this information is directly usable for bass guitars with more or fewer strings.
I will tell more about that later.
But important!
The bass guitar needs to be tuned in the standard tuning.
The R4 tuning.
That means that you tune the strings in the interval of perfect forward.
At first we gonna have a look at the lowest 2 strings.
The E string and the A string.
In this diagram you see a couple of circles.
These are dots and will be almost always at the same place for each bass guitar.
The dots come in handy for remembering the notes.
I will now give you 3 groups of notes.
If you know these, then you can fill in all the other squares on the bass guitar.
This is the first set of notes you need to learn.
As you can see, these notes are situated on the first 3 dots.
Apart from the note F, you can now fill in all the natural notes at one place on the bass guitar neck.
This is the second set of notes you need to learn.
As you can see, these notes are situated around the last separate dot.
This is the last set of notes you need to learn.
These notes do not really have a recognition point, but these are only 2 notes.
Now we know all the notes on the E string and the A string.
But as you can see, there are still squares remain open.
The notes that we have notated are called natural notes and you can lower and raise them.
When you raise a natural note with a semitone, you slide one square to the right in the direction of the body.
This note receives a sharp symbol behind the natural note.
If I raise the note G, I get the note G sharp.
If I raise the note D, I get the note D sharp.
When you lower a natural note with a semitone, you slide one square to the left in the direction of the head.
This note receives a flat symbol behind the natural note.
If I lower the note G, I get the note G flat.
[C#] If I lower the note D, I get the note D flat.
Notes that occur in the same place may have different names.
If I lower the note B, I get the note B flat.
If I raise the note A, I get the note A sharp.
When each name is used will be explained in the action plan.
There is no open square between the notes B and [G] C and the notes E and F.
But that does not mean that these notes can't be lowered or raised.
If I raise the note B, I get the note B sharp.
If I lower the note F, I get the note F flat.
This is less common.
Now you can fill in all the open squares on the E string and the A string.
When you know the notes on the E string and the A string, you can octave up to find the notes on the D string and the G string.
With octaving you play the same note, but it sounds higher or lower.
To play the notes on the bass guitar one octave up, you do the following.
You slide two squares to the right, in the direction of the body,
and two strings upward, in the direction of the G string.
If I want to play the note A on the D string, I'll first search for the note A on the E string,
and then slide two squares to the right and two strings upward.
To play the notes one octave down works the same, but the other way around.
You slide two strings down, in the direction of the E string,
and two squares to the left, in the direction of the head.
When you octave down the notes on the A string, it allows you to find the notes on the low B string.
Now you can find all the notes on all the strings, up to the 12th fret.
On the 12th fret a double dot is drawn.
The neck starts again.
As you can see, these squares are the same notes as the loose strings.
If you look further, you see again single dots.
The same notes as we've seen before are situated on and around these dots.
By learning the three group of notes, you can find the other notes by,
1.
Lowering and raising the notes,
2.
Octaving the notes,
and 3.
Knowing the neck starts
Every square has its own note.
But instead of remembering all these notes, you only have to know a few of them in order
to fill in the rest of the squares.
Before we start there are a few things you need to know about this diagram.
This diagram represents the bass guitar neck.
The left side is the beginning of the neck, where you find the head of the bass.
The right side is the end of the neck, where you find the body of the bass.
The thicker string is the lowest string in this diagram.
If you have the bass guitar on your lap and you lay it down on the back with the strings
heading to the ceiling, you have the same image as this diagram.
The next thing you need to know is the musical alphabet.
This consists of the first 7 letters of the alphabet.
A B C D E F G.
That means that the same note exists on different places of the neck.
These are the names of the open strings.
For now we work with a standard tuned 4 string bass.
But all this information is directly usable for bass guitars with more or fewer strings.
I will tell more about that later.
But important!
The bass guitar needs to be tuned in the standard tuning.
The R4 tuning.
That means that you tune the strings in the interval of perfect forward.
At first we gonna have a look at the lowest 2 strings.
The E string and the A string.
In this diagram you see a couple of circles.
These are dots and will be almost always at the same place for each bass guitar.
The dots come in handy for remembering the notes.
I will now give you 3 groups of notes.
If you know these, then you can fill in all the other squares on the bass guitar.
This is the first set of notes you need to learn.
As you can see, these notes are situated on the first 3 dots.
Apart from the note F, you can now fill in all the natural notes at one place on the bass guitar neck.
This is the second set of notes you need to learn.
As you can see, these notes are situated around the last separate dot.
This is the last set of notes you need to learn.
These notes do not really have a recognition point, but these are only 2 notes.
Now we know all the notes on the E string and the A string.
But as you can see, there are still squares remain open.
The notes that we have notated are called natural notes and you can lower and raise them.
When you raise a natural note with a semitone, you slide one square to the right in the direction of the body.
This note receives a sharp symbol behind the natural note.
If I raise the note G, I get the note G sharp.
If I raise the note D, I get the note D sharp.
When you lower a natural note with a semitone, you slide one square to the left in the direction of the head.
This note receives a flat symbol behind the natural note.
If I lower the note G, I get the note G flat.
[C#] If I lower the note D, I get the note D flat.
Notes that occur in the same place may have different names.
If I lower the note B, I get the note B flat.
If I raise the note A, I get the note A sharp.
When each name is used will be explained in the action plan.
There is no open square between the notes B and [G] C and the notes E and F.
But that does not mean that these notes can't be lowered or raised.
If I raise the note B, I get the note B sharp.
If I lower the note F, I get the note F flat.
This is less common.
Now you can fill in all the open squares on the E string and the A string.
When you know the notes on the E string and the A string, you can octave up to find the notes on the D string and the G string.
With octaving you play the same note, but it sounds higher or lower.
To play the notes on the bass guitar one octave up, you do the following.
You slide two squares to the right, in the direction of the body,
and two strings upward, in the direction of the G string.
If I want to play the note A on the D string, I'll first search for the note A on the E string,
and then slide two squares to the right and two strings upward.
To play the notes one octave down works the same, but the other way around.
You slide two strings down, in the direction of the E string,
and two squares to the left, in the direction of the head.
When you octave down the notes on the A string, it allows you to find the notes on the low B string.
Now you can find all the notes on all the strings, up to the 12th fret.
On the 12th fret a double dot is drawn.
The neck starts again.
As you can see, these squares are the same notes as the loose strings.
If you look further, you see again single dots.
The same notes as we've seen before are situated on and around these dots.
By learning the three group of notes, you can find the other notes by,
1.
Lowering and raising the notes,
2.
Octaving the notes,
and 3.
Knowing the neck starts