Tips for Transcribe Melody on Bass Guitar

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CASEY CORMIER: Also, we can take out same pattern and move it up to the 10th fret of the A string where another G is. Depending on how you hear it, depending on the timbre, see this is a little bit more muddy sounding, like a little bass more bass sound. This is a little more treble, and this one is really treble. So, say you hear it like this so you hear it as a kinda lower thing. well quick shorthand so you can figure out this riff and you don't have to memorize it, you can write a 10 here--or you want to start on the A string so--mistakes will be made, 10th fret then the 9th fret at the D string, [SINGS MELODY] don't worry about the movement yet, that'll be in the next segment [SINGS MELODY] then back to 9, 8, 10. So this is kind of important. We'll just pretend that this is the end of a measure but it sounds the end of a phrase so we can close it up here and we used our third finger here. So if you want to use something like circle numbers to indicate which finger you're using well this implies that you use your second finger for the 9th and then your first finger for the 8 so we don't have to worry about that. So now at least you have the melodic pattern down, next we'll look at how to get the rhythmic pattern going.

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