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Hi, my name is Dalton and we’re going to be going over some technique with your hands. We got uh… picking, we got uh… just regular old finger… finger playing, and popping and slapping.

We’re going to be using this riff. On that one I did finger picking, and uh… it has a smooth sound to it. All the notes kind of blend together and it doesn’t sound too harsh and doesn’t sound too like… put together too well. It has a quality to it that certain bass players want in say a jazzy song or a slow poppy song. It doesn’t have… it’s not too… it’s not in-your-face.

Playing Bass is quite different from playing a normal 6-string guitar. There are certain techniques bass players use. This video demonstrates some of the hand techniques used by bass players. Check it out.

So there are 3 techniques- Finger picking, using a pick and slapping. If you’re looking to be a bass player, this is essential.

Ok now we are going to take a look at the names of the notes in first position. Now what I mean by first position is any four-fret area that you can play with your four fingers.

It basically means one finger per fret. So that means from all this position you can play without shifting. So we’ll, take a look at these notes starting with an open string. The big string the one that is closest to you is called the E string. So that’s an E.

Alright now that I’ve got your attention, what exactly is the ‘floating thumb’? Well floating thumb is this; this is the God’s perfectly designed muting system for us to play the bass.

Hi. What we’re going to do here in this lesson is just a very basic beginner’s intro into slapping on the bass.

Hi my name is Darth and I’m going to tell you something about tapped slapped harmonic. It’s different than a normal tap harmonic, ‘cos you slap the note instead of you tap it – having like this finger or this finger (*****).