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BASS

In this section, there will be information to help you get started with playing the bass guitar part of Falling's verse.

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Bass Guitar Basics

First we need to know about the different parts of a bass guitar:

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Bass Guitar Basics

To hold a bass guitar, put the guitar on your right thigh, and the neck of the guitar should be in your left hand.

Now we know what the different part of the bass guitar are, locate the fingerboard on your guitar.

To play the bass, you press down on the space between frets with your left hand, and pluck the string with your hand hand.

TAB is like the guitar upside down.

The lines show which string to pluck. The numbers correspond to the fret you need to press.

Bass Notated Part

Notated Part

Break-down of Bass Part

Intro: Don't play.
Verse:

In the Verse, the bass has an 8 bar pattern, which repeats twice

Refer to the diagrams below to correctly play a note with your finger on the fret.

The notes circled in red are the notes needed to be played in the first and second parts of the Bass Pattern.

Break-down
Bass Part 1.
Bass Part 2
Instructional video:
Bass Play-along!

Tutorial Videos

Tutorial Videos
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