Bass Ukulele Lesson - Octaves & Fifths - Beginner U Bass Tutorial
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- Bass Ukulele Lesson - Octaves & Fifths - Beginner U Bass Tutorial
Bass Ukulele Tutorials For Beginners
Bass Ukulele Lesson - Octaves and fifths in your bass playing using an electro acoustic ukulele.
Bass Uke Lesson - Learning about 8ves and 5ths as intervals
A different way of learning your bass fretboard! Different to learning bass guitar tabs - great for playing your bass ukes in a ukulele group or uke club.
U-basses featured:
Kala - Nik West Signature Model California U Bass
Kala Solid Mahogany Fretless U-Bass
This is roughly the bass lesson that I teach our students in school about using octaves. It is aimed at absolute beginners and keeps things VERY simple and straight forward.
Bass ukuele lesson - Using Octaves and Fifths:
00:00 Intro to bass uke lesson on octaves and fifths
00:45 What is an interval?
02:21 Keep bass lines simple
03:13 Main Chords - Tonic, Dominant and Sub-Dominant
04:06 Octaves for C, F and G and hand shape
06:14 Octave hand shape on different strings on your bass uke
07:01 First look at fifths
07:53 Practice your 5ths on bass then octaves
09:35 Using octaves and 5ths in a bass line using a looper
13.14 Bass ukulele lesson recap
Links to videos that are mentioned:
Bass Ukulele Lesson #1 - • Bass Ukulele Lesson 1 ...
Bass Ukulele Lesson #2 - • Bass Ukulele Lesson 2 ...
Bass Ukulele Lesson #3 - • Bass Ukulele Lesson 3 ...
Bass Ukulele Lesson #4 - • Bass Ukulele Lesson 4 ...
Bass Ukulele Lesson #5 - • Bass Ukulele Lesson 5 ...
Bass Ukulele Basics - • Bass Ukulele Basics - ...
Ukulaliens Play Along Channel: / ukulaliensukuleleclub
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This video is meant for educational purposes.
Rachel you are a wonderful teacher - so clear and sensible! I love your Bass lessons. Thank you so much for sharing. I can't wait to start practicing!
You are so welcome Holly, Thank You for your lovely comment, much appreciated.
Rachel, my husband gave me a U-Bass for my 74th birthday. Your lessons have been wonderful. I have played ukulele for years but my CMC joints in my hand are too painful to play now so the U-Bass has kept me in the ukulele music. Thank you.
Nancee
That is awesome to hear Nancee, your husband is a star and I am so glad you can continue your musical journey! 😊
Thank you for these fantastic lessons. Have struggled with my bass but you have made the light go on.
So glad to be helping Ann, please feel free to ask any questions. Keep rocking!
As always great lesson & your version of the bass player joke was a hoot. In these trying times always good to have a spontaneous laugh out loud. Ta muchly.
LOL Thanks Titi :-)
Thanks again Rachel. You are an enormous help in moving me on with my new Ubass. Really useful.
So glad I can help and that you are enjoying playing - that's what it is all about!
Wow, this makes me so excited and keen to learn more, sounded great. Thank you, just got my very first bass, it’s a Ubass. So, I am starting with the beginners number one class and that’s so interesting, thank you. I’m 63 years old and always wanted to learn bass, I can played a few chords on a ukulele already. Wish me luck. ❤
You don’t need luck Jackie, sounds as if you are already making great progress. Give me a shout if you have any questions. 😊
@@UkuleleWales thank you very much. I'd like that. 👌❤️
Thanks tons Rachel, these lessons make it so clear. Cannot wait for more!!!
You're so welcome!
You are a wonderful person, one willing to pass on their knowledge for which I thank you.
You are very welcome Larry, glad you enjoyed.
Absolutely amazing! Thank you so much!
My pleasure Stephanie and can I also say a massive Thank You for becoming a Patron, much appreciated. 😊😊
Thank you, Rachel for another great lesson! Love the easy explanations. Again, I can hardly wait for more!! Hoping you are doing well.😄💖🎶
Thanks Julie, so glad you are enjoying. yes all good here except we go back to school next week.
Adorable teacher Rachel!..Thanks.
Thanks, so glad you enjoy.
Thanks, this is really helping me. Never thought I could play bass, now I see it's possible.
Fantastic to hear Marc, glad to be helping.
Great lesson, love the purple u bass!
Thanks! 😊
Another fun lesson for Jules & Ruby provided by the wonderful Rachel & Nik! Thanks so much. 8^)
Our pleasure! Loving the gang names. LOL!
Excellent lessons-really good 🎉
Thank you! 😃
Wonderfully explained. For me, by far the best bass tutorial I've seen as a one year u Bass beginner. Something I can now get to grips with. Your relaxed style and soothing accent takes all the pain away. Keep it up. Peter Meleg Ontario Canada.
Awesome, thank you Peter, a really lovely comment. Hopefully many more bass videos to come. PS Love Canada
You're a great teacher! You mention that using root and octave will always work but using root and 5th doesn't always work. Can you please explain easily when it doesn't work?
Great question. Very often the root chord is followed by the 5th and you have played your 5th already (following your root in the bass line) so it sounds in effect like you have moved too early. Also it does wokr for some songs but if you do it too much, all the bass lines / songs sound the same.
Great lesson! Much fun! Instant success! Thanks a lot!
You're very welcome Jens, very gladto have helped.
Thank you Rachel for a fantastic lesson. I now know the roll of the Uke bass in the group. Definitely a lightbulb moment. But I don't think I 'll be doing any gigs sometime soon. 😂😂😁🤟♨️🛸 Time to practise now, big diolchs from Anglesey xx
Diolch yn fawr iawn Lois. Hope you are keeping well and didn't get too much damage in the storms.
Hello Rachel! I found your bass ukulele lessons a few months ago and they have been wonderful in helping me learn to play the bass uke! As a retired music/piano teacher, although I understand all the musical concepts of your lessons, I am happy to be learning on a new instrument! Thank you so much for these brilliant lessons and play alongs. I do have one question: after decades of playing the piano/keyboard with curved fingers, I am finding that the fingers of my left hand want to stay curved above the fretboard. Sometimes the fingers will be too high above the strings! Any suggestions to help me flatten my fingers? I do try to keep my thumb in the middle of the back of the neck! Best wishes from Down Under (with Welsh great great grandparents!!)
Hi Jenifer, so glad to be helping and awesome to hear you are a retired music teacher. TBH fingers tips should be pressing down firmly and as long as that is happening I wouldn’t be too concerned how arched your fingers are. If I’m playing double bass or cello my fingers tend to be more arched. If you are hovering your fingers above the string, try and keep them as close to the string as you dare. Hope that helps.
@@UkuleleWales Thank you for your reply Rachel 😊 I will follow your suggestion and let you know how things go! Take care and thanks again 😊
You're Fantastic.. thank you so much!!!!
Glad it helped, Thank You.
Another great lesson, thank you.
Thanks John
Thank you, Rachel, yet again your straight forward teaching style simplifies the learning of what had always appeared difficult to me. I knew the theory; I did not understand it until now. May I suggest a lesson (or a link if you've already done one), both for uke and bass, on learning the different scales? I look forward to your future bass lessons.
Hi Tobias, so glad the lessons are helping. I will defnitely be looking at scales in the future.
Thanks for another excellent lesson which explains things so clearly
Thanks Malcom, so glad it is helping.
Wonderful! I understand the theory, now I need to get to practicing so muscle memory can take over. Another wonderful as always and thank you very much. I appreciate the how you break it down into understandable segments. Makes it all the more clear.
Thanks. The muscle memory will kick in and make things easier over time. Well done though.
Can't believe I'm a day late with this new video. Have to check my settings. But as before a great lesson.
Thanks, yep click that bell. ;-)
@@UkuleleWales I think notifications might be hooped. I didn't get notified on this one, the looper one, and there's apparently a new playalong.
Fabulous Rachel
Thanks 😊
Brilliant lesson - very logical, fantastic! Suspect it will take a long time for me to get any speed though! You make the reach to 4th finger look easy! I think my hands are less flexible! 😂
Hi Kathleen, glad to hear you are enjoying. Take your time and don't put yourself under too much pressure. You hands and muscle memory will improve in time and remember, I've played double bass for a long time so my little hands are very used to stretching! LOL
This lesson is really a capstone moment and your teaching skills are very motivational. I have been practicing the major scales to memorize finger placement muscle memory & enforcing technique within the fretboard. With this lesson and with the great collection of backing tracks at the #Ukulaliens I have been able to begin to #playalong with the #KalaUBass #UBass. ( I am using the beginners videos) It’s really really fun. Great Information.
I have been watching many bass players on TH-cam just to see different styles and approaches. So many different styles and loads of techniques. Something I’ve been wondering about is muting the strings. I know this is early (for me) to think about adding muting but, have you made any lessons that teach muting techniques? I have watched a nice muting lesson with #studybass by Andrew Pouska Thank you again for your fantastic #TH-camSchool. It has been a pandemic lifesaver during 2020 for us here in the US. Thanks 🙏 Be Safe🎶💫
Thank You so much for your lovely comment. Knowing these lessons help really inspires me to do more. Keeping going, sounds like you are doing really well. :-)
I love the complete setup in the background..
fantastic.. brilliant.. crispy sound.. enjoyed your play thoroughly..
Father Daughter Orchestra vdos in my channel.
Thanks, the set-up has always been there for my music work but I did add a snazzy light. Glad you are enjoying it though.
@@UkuleleWales a small comment in my channel will help me remember you :)
Thank you so mutch! Now I can play U bass! Only question: Can You Upload Ukulaliens-channel? Can you play some The Police song? Thanks from north!
Glad to be helping you play your u-bass. Funnily enough I was look at doing a Police song for Ukulaliens, I just need to find one with good chords for ukulele. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@UkuleleWales OK (:
Hi!! Nice video! I have some question. Can I use bass amp for normal Eq ukulele? I heard that bass amp can not sound a high pitched sound. Can I just set my ukulele's Pick up to bass and use bass amp? Thank you
Hi, for normal ukulele you can use a bass amp and it will sound fine, it will sound all the high pitch notes. Personally I wouldn't use something like a PG-3 Mini as they are so small and very little power.
Oh. Ok. Thank you for your help. I subscribed your channel for my ukulele. :)
I noticed when you are adding the octave or 5th, you use your pinky but also your fourth finger. I’m guessing it’s for strengthening the note?
Hi Ann, yes. I find the 4th finger gives a much better strength when pressing down you pinky finger. 👍
Can I use electric guitar amp? Like PG-3 mini amp.
I would NOT use a mini amp with a bass uke, only a bass amp.
Is there a reason that you jump across from the octave string to the 5th string with pinkie, rather than holding a still shape of ring finger on 5th string and pinkie on the octave string? Thanks
Great question Angela. It is possible to do it the way you describe but I like to put my ring finger down with my pinky to give more strength on the fretboard. I do tend to teach it this way but it really is what works for everyone 👍
Do you use the 4th and 5th fingers on the same string
Yes, whenever you press your 5th finger down, try and also press your other fingers down for strength. Hope that helps.
Why don’t we use the pointer and third rather than the pointer and pinky? Or the second finger and pinky? Thank you.
Excellent question, if you want to use your index and ring finger you can. The reason I play like this is because with double bass and bass guitar the scale or length of the fingerboard is much longer and therefore the stretch between notes is further. I do mention this in one of the earlier lessons, if you are comfortable using other fingers that is absolutely fine. The main things is to try and keep your hand in the same shape (whichever fingers you use.)