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Upright Bass in E: Finding 3rd & 4th Frets

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Summary: Find the third and fourth frets when playing upright bass in E major swing; learn how from our expert upright bass player in this free music instruction video.

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Upright Bass in E: Finding 3rd & 4th Frets

So now, that we've found our root in our fifth in our first position and we played it with our second finger here. If you put your second finger on the low string, right below the fifth, and put your pinkie, you can find your root fifth active on the next couple of frets. So we have. It might seem like a little bit of a stretch because you're going from your second fifth finger to your pinkie. Again, when you're playing normally, you can play first finger to pinkie, but because we're doing this scale, it requires us to be in this position. And it's good to stretch your fingers out anyway. But now, we've added these notes. So, we have our first notes and our second notes. And now that we have these, one, two, three, four "frets" down, even though there are no frets there, but we know how to find these notes. We're going to go through and look at our major scale and analyze it so we can go through and play our first major scale, E-major.

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