There are four primary notes on an electric bass guitar strings. The fattest one is the E note, the second one is the A note, the third one is the G note and the last one is the D note. With these notes come other notes as well. These notes are usually found within the range of the first fret and the first two strings. Along the E note are G, A and B notes. They are more or less one fret apart (apart from G which is two frets lower than E) and along the A note string are C, D and E notes. Usually note patterns and tablatures are founded along these basic notes.
You need to remember all these things because playing the electric bass guitar calls for shifting notes along the progression of the song and that means the notes also progress with it. You would need to know the positions of these notes for you to better shift from one note to another as often as the song calls for it. There are different exercises to help master finger placement for the bass guitar, one good exercise is to press the notes as you call them out in random succession.
You don’t necessarily have to strum it, you just have to put your finger on the note without looking at the electric bass guitar itself. A good suggestion is that you do it while facing a mirror so you could see where you are at or if you are on the wrong note.
Now let’s start playing the bass. Place your right thumb on the E string this is the fattest string on your electric bass guitar just between where the pickup is and the right after the neck of the bass guitar, there are some bass guitars that have thumb rests. If this is the case with your bass guitar, you need to use your index finger for strumming (or slapping).
Then, pick up your index finger and place it on the G string one string on top of the D string, the furthest string away from you in the similar stuff that you had it on the D string and move it back to the D string, plucking the G string in the progression. (TIP: Do not try to compel the G string to come back to the D string, there ought to be minute in the way of heaviness that you’re putting on the G string).
After plucking the G string, let your index finger rest on the D string once more, and your middle finger in the same procedure. Go over this sample increasing speed, but make sure you do not slack accurateness with each pluck.
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