How to play bass for beginners

Hellow all, in this post I will discuss about how to play bass for starters, let's be listened!

The bass guitar is a musical instrument that is a very important role in giving the feel of the music with a lower tone as fillers and giver tempo tone.

Before we learn bass guitar, it's good if we can play the guitar first. To learn guitar you can click here.

Techniques in gitas play bass guitar is actually the same as usual, namely:

1. Strumming Technique is picking guitar technique.

2. Scale Technique is a map of tone between the first fret to fret more

3. Chord Technique which is a combination of two or more notes in one voice

Yes I do not have to stay long. Jump to the way the game wrote it. let!

This is a bass guitar image

As we can see, the bass guitar has four (4) strings.

loss strings 1 is the tone G

loss string 2 is the tone D

A tone strings loss 3

loss string of four tones E

Well below is the beginning not the minor key

If this is the full bass guitar chord

Instrument bass

Like the guitar, the bass is a musical instrument that uses strings ato strings as sound source. Only bass wear 4 (strings if there is on the top guitar), the lowest E string, string A string D and G strings are highest. The composition of the strings on the bass (4 strings) also starts from the string 6 = E, 5 = A, 4 = D, and 3 = G. Similarly, in writing in tablature, bass only using four lines representing the strings.

Although the acoustic bass there, but the majority of the bass is more often encountered operated electronically or electricity and require amps to amplify his voice.

Well if you already know his bass guitar chord, you need to know is the technique of play. Listen!

1. Alternate Picking

This technique is most often used by the bassist, since alternate picking is actually the basic techniques in playing bass. How: pluck bass by using two fingers alternately, generally does use the index finger and middle finger.

2. Up Down ThumbDalam this technique we use our thumb as a pick, while the four other jari2 we use for strumming, like kayak playing guitar lah ... So if we usually use the index and middle fingers for picking bass (alternate picking) then in this technique we replace it with the thumb.

3. SlappingTeknik slap on bass. So play bass by hitting bass with the thumb or palm of the hand, and the sound is generated to be like percussion that. Om the bassistnya Flea of ​​Red Hot Chilli Peppers are usually like use this technique ..

4. PoppingTeknik pulling the strings with the fingers and then released again to compete with fret, so a loud voice like that pitted the two objects. Usually we can gabungin slapping and popping techniques, ntar combination voice so unique. There is also a technique of popping by pulling two strings at once is called double Pluck.

5. TappingTeknik is commonly used on the guitar, but ngebasspun can use this technique. How: press the strings with the fingertips to fret bass and slide a little bit more like a finger poke.

6. Neck Bending If the guitar we know the technique of bending that is lifting the strings with his fingertips, but this time we lakukuin was on bass. The trick: when we pluck, press the strings that exist on the headstock (the bass end is usually where we tuned), later produced as a buzzing sound. Mr. Pak Billy Sheehan bassistnya Big often use this technique.

In playing the techniques above we need people who understand for guiding it to be done well. Often practiced and studied the experts will help enhance our game. Because if wrong in applying the technique then the sound will be different.

Note also the position of the hands, use the power in the wrist, not the arm. Remember, frequently doing finger exercises for relaxation and fingering that do not occur on a finger injury.

Well what about guys? Already know?

Tips from me; often to listen to the sound of the bass in a musical, and try to understand the technique into practice.

GOOD WORK !!! :)