Learn How To Play The Upright Bass: Lesson 1
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- In this introductory video, Jose will go over the basics of the upright bass. Even if you have never picked up the bass before, this lesson is a great start for you!
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For a true beginner, this is a great first video for me. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I play french horn in my school band, but have played violin for 7 years. My band teacher wanted me to learn upright bass for our jazz band. This is video was very helpful thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm going on 4 years of playing the bass guitar. And im finally getting to learn double bass.
Awesome. Definitely a challenge but we’ll worth it
@@PAFMCo I'm sure it will. It's already a lot of fun learning it
Picked up the double bass about four years ago after playing the electric bass since 1970. It makes me wish I had switched from trombone to the upright, like my high school band director suggested, circa 1967, when no one in the orchestra wanted to play it because it was so big and apparently unwieldy. Little did I know that fifty years later I would regret that refusal.
Damn.
Yeah you never know. Bass is so valuable with so many genres of music so it is a great instrument
Thank you Patrick and Friends!
I recently got an ELECTRIC upright bass and while some might argue that it is not the same instrument, this video (and the whole playlist it is in) was very helpful to get started.
Glad that it was helpful!
I can speak to the fact that it is painful. I'm getting some tendon pain in the left hand, starting off at the tender age of 45, but not new to the music realm. I think it would be that way for anyone who has never had to wield upright bass prior or hasn't grown up into the instrument.
Yes, it can definitely be a strenuous instrument especially when you are first beginning.
I’m wanting to learn to play the bass but I’m starting to have second thoughts if this is painful because I don’t want my fingers to have calluses
I'm a cellist, so my advice to take the strain off your wrist in the fingering hand (LH) is to raise the elbow to a place where the wrist is straight not bent; raise the elbow higher to finger the lowest strings.
@@BardTheDragonProductions Callouses are inevitable for bass players, sorry.
@@BardTheDragonProductions well, callouses are non negotiable with string instruments. You gotta have 'em if you even play just a little bit. Hurts at first but over time you crave the sensation it creates. This was how it was for me and the guitar.
Never played a string instrument, other than a very small amount of guitar. I've played trumpet for a bit more than 5 years, and A bit of piano before that. I decided I wanted to learn a secondary instrument, this is what my band teacher suggested.
WOW i loved the entrance when you played the bass where improvising or playing a song.
Thanks!
Thank you I just found you.
I played under instruction for 4 months then had to move overseas..You're going to be my guide
Awesome! Jose will be having some new videos coming out on our channel soon, so make sure you look out for those!
Good job, I thought when I looked this up it wasn't going to be this good. Bro I'm totally going to sub. Amazing job
Thanks!
Great video! I am new to the upright bass. I am planning on picking up an Ibanez UB804 to start learning. I look forward to more instructional videos from you!
Thanks! Jose will have some new videos out on the channel pretty soon
@@PAFMCo... Cool! I'm looking forward to them.
A very nice lesson.
Thanks!
Thanks Jose
Really good intro👍thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks! This was helpful while I’m reviewing for my String Methods course
Glad it could be helpful!
Instrument: Double Bass
Playing style: guitar
Skills: 2/10
thank you
“You will probably bleed…but it’s cool” 😂😂😂
The notes on the bass are a FOURTH interval apart going UP or DOWN: highest to lowest are G D A E. They are not FIFTHS like the violin strings, which are the same notes, G D A E, but violin strings are a firth apart going UP or DOWN: LOWEST to highest G D A E.
Yes, you are correct, Jose made a mistake. Thank you for correcting it.
very good
Thank you!
👏👏👏👏 AMAZING i'm only in 4th grade and I do orchestra this really helped thank you
Awesome! Glad it is helping
nice!
I play trumpet and clarinet so naturally the next instrument it makes sense for me to pick up is the double bass :b
In all seriousness thankyou this is very helpful, I played it for the first time this morning and can now play a horrible rendition of mary had a little lamb :DDD
Glad you enjoyed them!
I'm just starting to learn this instrument I know all my open strings but I do not know the other notes on it.
Can you show all positions and scales.♥️👍😁
good
Thanks for the video, do you have one for learning the major chords “ 1st position?
Not currently, but that can definitely be addressed in a future video. For clarification, By chords are you referring to arpeggios?
I’m not that familiar with the bass yet , an example; if a guitar is leading a song and is playing 3 finger major chords CFG. GCD etc and you as bassist want to play along how do you make the same chord on the bass , I assume that is an arpeggio, 2 notes Played to make the chord ? I understand this is probably basic playing but see folks in relaxed bluegrass and old timey music gatherings not playing individual melody notes so much but mostly match the chord change of the other instruments, and “it looks fun “ even though pretty basic playing and use of the bass
I have looked on TH-cam for a basic double bass “How to play along at Jam Sessions” but have not found much if anything useful ,
Thank You
@@marinevet7273 Ok, so you are talking about being the harmony and outlining chords. I am actually not Jose in the video, I am a guitar player, but it really depends on the genre of music. Always a good place to start is with the roots. Which means when the guitar is playing a C Major chord, then you play the note C, and so on... Then from there you can create bass lines. I am not too familiar with bluegrass, but I am sure they also use the fifth of a chord. So, for example, if they are playing a C major chord, you can play the notes C, and G.
As I mentioned, arpeggios do come in handy because you learn the 1st, 3rd and 5th of a chord which can all be used when creating baselines. There are also other notes you can use, but it gets in to a longer explanation. This is a very condensed version, and does take a longer explanation, but that is a great topic, and I will try to get Jose or another bass player to talk about that.
In general if you stay with the root and the 5th of a chord, those are a pretty safe place to start. I would just practice taking some songs that you really like that have common progressions and work on playing the root and 5th. Also, look for transcriptions of basslines, or figure out songs by ear to help you. Try to analyze what notes they choose over the chord they are playing. That would be where I would start.
More bass lessons please!
I am glad you are enjoying the videos. At the moment we are not releasing new bass videos but it is something we will look to do in the future. You can check out Jose’s other videos on the channel in the meantime
Hello sir, i am interested in trying to play upright bass. I haven't got one yet, but that is just a matter of time. I have some questions: 1)when you play i hear some sort of clicking noise coming from the strings. Is that a normal sound when playing the bass? Or should i try not to have that sound? 2)do you need to pluck the strings hard? 3)can the bass be electric? How?
The clicking sounds depend on the style of play and what you are going for. If you are playing classical music, that is most likely not the sound you are generally going to look for, unless indicated. The strings on an upright bass are very thick so it does take a lot of force to pluck the strings. There are electric upright basses, as well as regular upright basses that have mounted mic systems.
I’m a 5 year lefty electric bassist looking to pick ‘up’ the upright for college. What would you recommend? Learning righty to avoid trying to find a lefty bass or paying extra for a conversion?
From Jose " I always say what ever you're most comfortable with. The only thing with it is that you have to find one and you'll always have to travel with your personal lefty upright because unless requested and again trying to find one, you will be stuck with a standard 3/4 upright on most backlined gigs. Other than backline and finding one to buy, it's just like owning and playing any upright"
I’m a lefty also, I got an Engelhart bass. Suits me wonderfully.
Hi Jose, do You offer online lessons?
Hello, Jose is not offering online lessons at the moment.
Okay so I have been playing guitar for a while now and have really, and I mean REALLY, been getting into jazz lately. I especially like the sound of the upright bass. I wonder if it's incredibly hard to learn without lessons and I am hoping someone can tell me that. Besides that are there any recommendations for a fine bass without it costing a fortune?
Check out Musicians Friend. They offer a Chinese laminate starter bass kit, including bow and case for under a grand. I bought one about five years ago, added a Fishman Full Circle pickup, and use it for gigs. Still sounds as good today as it did then.
I would also see if you can go to a local store and rent one. Typically higher quality then a cheap purchase
Why is an upright bass plucked instead of bowed like a violin?
You can do both on a bass. Jose has more of a jazz background so he primarily uses his fingers, but a person with a classical background would mostly use a bow.
I’m an electric bassist, but really want an upright bass
It’s definitely a little different but we’ll worth the jump
I'm sorry, but when you go into the interval spacing at 1:20, you're giving out wrong information. The strings are stacked in fourths, *not* in fifths. It's also not fifths one way and fourths the other way.
Intervals work in both directions of pitch, there is an ascending version and a descending version. And going from E1-A1 is just as much of a perfect fourth as going from A1-E1 is. The interval doesn't just magically change, because you're going from a higher to a lower string. How would that even work?
Thank you for the comment. You are correct, I think Jose was thinking about it in terms of the relationships of the notes(not regarding the pitch), or in terms of cycling through keys, but as far as intervals go it is 4ths whether you are going up or down. I know he knows that, so it was probably just an error on his part. Thank you for the clarification. I will see if I can't make a note/text on the video.
You are wrong. The distance from A1 to D1 is a 4 up, D1 to A1 is 5 down
Lesson one starts in the deep end. Whats a 5th??
A 5th is the distance between notes. So if you look at a Scale in in the key of C major. The first five notes are C, D, E , F, G. The distance between the C and the G is called a fifth. There are also diminishes and augmented fifths which are a different discussion but C to G is what we call a perfect fifth. Also Jose did make a mistake and the distance between strings are actually 4ths. For example E to A is a fourth which you can follow the same pattern to figure that out
@@PAFMCo Thanks for taking the time to explain! More studies and dedication for me!!
Recommend learning your way around a keyboard. It will give you a better knowledge of intervals. That's not some accidental error you made. It's a lack of knowledge. No worries. That's common with a lot of string and horn players. Piano/keyboard will remedy that. That said, the instrument does seem to come natural to you, and you do seem to explain it well.
Wait was that the blues clues intro?!
I don’t think so
Was it?
Is this a 4/4 bass or 3/4 bass
If you are talking about the size of the bass, it is a full size bass
@@PAFMCo OK but actually the "full size" or, better said, standard size is the 3/4. The 4/4 (sometimes called jumbo, 110cm vibrating string length)is very rare, mainly found in symphonic orchestras, or if you are a giant. Any jazz, rockabilly etc upright is actually 3/4. Most bassists are not even aware of this…
Smaller sizes (1/2, 1/4) are for young players.
@@francoisbruel9163 Thank you for the clarification. Unlike Jose, I am not a bass player myself, but I can see what he says. Thanks!
I play guitar why am I here
Because you finally see the light? 🤣
@@bustabass9025 I now play jazz upright
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