Play 5-4 Time on Bass Guitar

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CASEY CORMIER: Another more difficult level of time signature is the 5/4 time signature. So we have talked about 3/4 and 4/4 and 7/8 we just did but along these quarter-note time signatures 5/4 can be kinda tricky. It feels like we have an extra beat in there 'cause we are so used to a quarter note pulse and everything in our music and everything in our life, but it does make things a little more interesting. So instead of one, two, three, four per measure, it is one, two, three, four, five. Another way of thinking of it is being broken into one, two, three, one, two, one, two, three, one, two; that is usually the best way of first understanding it okay. So let us take something really simple. This is a famous bass line in 5/4. Let us say we start on the E flat here, one, two, three, one, two, one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three. So we're playing E flat then B flat then back down to the octave of B flat one, two, three, the 6th fret of A, 8th fret of D, 8th fret of E, one but kinda holding this for three [PLAYS BASS LINE] or you can play one, two, three, four, five for now when you're getting used to it and then take out those extra notes. Now this is when we would count as one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, five. You could complicate the rhythm, [PLAYS BASS LINE], [PLAYS AND SINGS BASS LINE] but keep that pulse in line one, two, one, two, three, four, five, one, two, three. So start something one, two, three, four, five. So try to divide the 5/4 into 3/4 and 2/4 first until you can feel it as the complete five.

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