Upright Bass in Gb: Fingering 1, 2, 4

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Now, I just want to go over fingering, it's very important, when you play the bass, you only want to use your first, your second, and your fourth finger. So, by doing this, you got to really make sure you don't use your third. It's very easy to go like this... but this isn't electric bass and it'll really mess up your fingers if you do that, so you want to be very careful, you use just one, two, and four. I know it's a really hard technique to get down but the more you practice the more second nature it becomes, and the way you want to hold the bass is you keep your thumb here, in the back, you want to make like a C clamp, you want to make this strong clamp. And the way you want to hit the fingers, or hit the strings is with the fat of your finger right here like this. I like keeping my thumb right here to weight it down. There's musicians that actually pluck like this too. I'm not that coordinated yet. So you want to practice this technique and as we go through and show you the actual scales, we'll give you the correct fingering as we go along and you want to make sure you use it 'cause it will help you in the long run from damaging - not damaging your fingers. Very important.

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