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

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Upright Bass in Gb: Finding 3rd & 4th Fret

So now we're going to find our next two frets. So we found our first one, right? So, what I want you to do is move down to the bottom string on that fret and put your pinky here on that same string and find the active again. And that's actually G flat in the high G flat. And then you have your first four frets. And then when we split it up today we start here and we skip back and forth between this fret and this fret and we'll show you that actually on the chart as we go through and look at the actual scale. But you have those first four frets. One, two, three, four, five. So it goes up here about halfway to the end of your bridge here or where its attached to the bass. So you want to mark those frets down or just memorize where they are or if you have perfect pitch and good inclination you can just try going for it. I don't really recommend that.

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