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Summary: Harmonize thirds as an advanced bass guitar playing technique; learn how from a professional bass player and teacher in this free music instruction video.

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Harmonizing Thirds on Bass Guitar

CASEY CORMIER: Okay, the first role of the bass is really to play the bass notes of the chords that are going on or that are implied. The other role is often to outline those chords with their root 3rd and 5th scale degrees, root being 1, 1, 3 and 5 scale degrees in an arpeggiated fashion sometimes, but we can also play two notes at once basically outlines of chords but separated. The cool thing is if we play, say we play a D in the A string right here, we could play the F sharp underneath but the thing is on the bass since we're on a lower register, those two notes are close to each other in that lower register and you just don't have that nice of a sound but if we move this 3rd up an octave. So now we got the F sharp on the G string 11th fret and we played D as the bass on here. These two now harmonize much better because now D is very much in the bass and the 3rd is up above okay. I prefer to use my first finger and my third finger for this one because they are kinda far apart. That's a major type of shape.

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