Hammer-Ons: Instead of plucking a note, slam your finger down on the string at the fret you want, sounding it out with just this hand.For example, C major will typically be played with C in the bass. Slides: Play a note and, without taking your hand off the string, slide down (or up) to the next note you want to play, fluidly transitioning down (or up). Chords are mostly played with the root in the bass, the lowest sounding note in the chord.You can also pull the string downward, too. You should hear the note's pitch change as you bend the string. Bends: With your finger on the fret, use 2-3 fingers to push the string up the neck.You should hear the note 'waving' based on how high or far you shake the string. Vibrato: Keeping your finger on the string, shake your hand up and down.Bass is a very physical instrument, and your ability to handle and manipulate the strings is how you wring emotion and power out of every note: Many bassists can play 10 notes and sound good, but only the best players can play one note and make it sound amazing. Use accenting techniques to make selected notes stand out. It is called 'flattened' as it is one semitone (one fret) lower than the seventh note of a major scale. An A7 chord consists of the notes A, C#, E, and the flatted seventh, G.

The is a major chord with a flatted seventh note. Another chord to learn is the dominant seventh chord.For example, in the key of C Major, two scale notes down from C is A minor. For any major key, you go two scale notes down from the root of the major scale and that gives you the relative minor. This relationship between major and relative minor holds up and down the fretboard, for all major scale keys.Notice the E and F, and B and C do NOT have a black note in between them. The F# minor scale is called the relative minor of A major. So 12 notes in total: A, A/Bb, B, C, C/Db, D, D/Eb, E, F, F/Gb, G, G/Ab. Otherwise put, a song in A-major can use either the A-major scale or the F#-minor scale.If you start a minor scale on the sixth note of the major scale, in this case the 2nd fret F# (on the E string), all of these notes will fit in your song as well! To find the notes, take the major scale in the key you're playing, for example, the A major shown above. This handy trick will double the number of notes at your disposal when playing songs, though it is important to note that they still have different feels. Learn how the major and minor scales are combined to play even further down the neck.

Bass guitar notes