Chords for Metal Guitarist Tries Learning Bass

You know when sometimes a joke goes too far?
_ _ _ _ Yup.
Checkmate.
_ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [G#] _
_ _ [C#] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [B] This is weird.
_ You know, there's five strings.
_ That's illegal.
It's missing a string.
_ _ _ _ That's bassy.
Okay.
So I am using a guitar pick that's slightly bigger
than a Tic Tac.
_ _ Probably not the best thing for this,
but it only hurts.
That's [F#] okay.
What is this supposed to be tuned to?
How to tune a bass.
Wait, why do I get a video,
how to tune a guitar in bass tuning
before I get how to tune a bass?
Schoolofrock.com, bass guitar.
Come on.
[E] Jack Black has [Bm] never let me down before.
I feel so powerful holding these.
Cause it's like, they're so big.
You know, like I can,
[F#] _ I can do that and it actually does things [D#] on a guitar.
I feel like I'm always scared
I'm going to break the [A#] entire thing.
[A] _ _ [G] _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[A#] Got to be right.
The leap from one string to the next
feels like a canyon of [G] distance. _ _ _
[C#] _ [B] _ That's like five _ string lengths on a normal [C] guitar.
_ _ _ [B] _
Gent.
I don't know what, _
what is a bass [F] tone.
I don't know how to make [G] that.
[F#] So I'm just going to try [D#] using my normal guitar tone on it.
And it [G#] should [A] work. _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Kind of sounds like garbage.
There's so many knobs here, dude.
Like, I feel like a DJ.
Okay.
How to play [E] bass for beginners
using my good old friend, Google.
As always, [C#] never let you [D] down.
Let's go.
First [E] thing is an ad.
Second thing is an ad.
Of course.
How to play bass, the complete beginner guide.
And the [G] picture is of a guitar. _ _
So let's, let's try to play this.
What is this?
Right.
Five string.
Why, why did I get a five string? _ _ _ _
_ _ Jesus.
I feel like I'm literally stretching my hands
across the earth to do this.
Start with technique and exercise.
Run scales, play arpeggios and chord.
Wait, can you do chords on a bass?
_ _ _ _ [D] Ew. _
_ _ _ [A] Okay.
He's doing some kind of spider thing with his hand.
I don't see a pick, so I'm pretty sure this is illegal.
Easy to follow approach that I use in my course,
beginner to badass.
_ There's just so much wood.
We're going to start with the right hand,
which is your plucking hand.
Hi.
First thing you want to do is take your right thumb
and go ahead and press it on the head.
What am I, a seagull?
You would pluck index, middle, index, middle, back.
Okay.
All right.
_ Bass is not family [E] friendly, I see.
Pluck.
_ Eh, wrong.
No, don't do that.
Okay, Steven.
How to [D] play bass.
From the National Guitar Academy.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Oh, guitar.
I like guitar.
In this free guitar lesson,
you will learn the role of bass.
To meme, am [E] I wrong?
What?
_ _ [F#] _
Dude, [E] it's like I got little flippers, okay?
A guitarist's guide to playing bass.
Okay, let's go.
That's, that's me.
It me.
Number two, learn to walk.
Oh, I'm ahead of that.
I can run, [C] okay?
_ _ _ [E] _ _
[F] _ _ [D#] Oh, so [C] heavy.
All right, wikiHow,
the best website when it comes to learning anything.
You know, whether it's how to get pasta sauce
off your ceiling,
or how to get ghosts out of your laundry machine.
It's, it's, it's where you go.
Number one, practice bass.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Focus on chord tones.
Dude, chords on bass?
Why?
I thought the whole point of bass
was to play one note at a time
[A#] because chords is too much thong.
Question, my fingers are so small,
so it hurts when I try to play.
What do I do?
Play guitar.
Question, what if I can't read music?
[F] None of us can.
Don't worry [C#] about it.
Mistakes beginners make.
Just learning tabs and [E] songs.
What am I supposed to learn?
Hieroglyphics, dude?
Not learning music history.
Okay, I don't think knowing Beethoven's hair color
is gonna help me shred harder. _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ Nice. _ _ _
_ _ [D#] Science.
All right, so, so far it seems like bass
is just a guitar with less strings,
so I could probably easily play through
the fire and flames on this.
So let's go and focus on like,
the actual different techniques that,
that a bass has.
Plucking, you know,
[G#] buck buck plucking.
[F#] I'm a pro at plucking now,
because the dude showed me how to finger the bass.
Video will be demonetized.
Why do [E] all these bass techniques
have very dirty [C#] connotations to them? _ _ _
His hand [D] looks literally like a [F#m] tarantula. _ _ _
[F] What?
[F#] _ He had like 50 notes in one second, dude.
_ [E] _ [B] So what?
Okay. _
_ _ _ _ Bass is kind of cool.
Slap bass.
I don't want to abuse my bass.
All right, so to learn slap bass,
I guess we're going to the slapper man.
The one that gets the likes with you slapping _ yourself.
The Davey, you know?
The reason the bass exists, I'm sure.
Davey.
[F] I'm going to give you one.
Is he actually Italian?
_ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ [D] I can't even do that on a guitar, bro.
Like, like, _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [A] oh!
_ _ [Am] _ Oh, that is funky. _
_ [Em] How does the thumb make the noise so loud?
I mean, I have to slap like now.
[B] _ Checkmate.
You want to hold your hand in a loose clenched fist
with your thumb extended as if you're giving a- Nice.
Rotating the hand from the wrist and forearm like this.
No! _ _ _ _ _
Am [A] I doing it?
[F#] _ _ [C#] _ _
[F#] _ How am I expected just to play that?
Sir [B] bass man?
_ [C#] _ _ [F] Wow.
It feels like I'm slapping into bridge cables.
I feel like my hand is a circus right now.
[C#] _ _ _ Oh, come on.
_ [C#m] _ _ Nope.
Nope.
_ Ichika already makes me want a quick guitar.
This, how?
This is illegal. All right.
It's time to pull out the big guns.
There's no point of learning [D#] bass
if you don't know how to [F#] burbur ding. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ I will burbur ding. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [E] Get wrecked.
I can finally quit bass now.
Bass meme [B] songs.
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] He is just, [N] Davy is too good at that face. _ _ _ _ _ _
Oh man.
Slapping the bass.
All right.
So bass might not be a conspiracy.
It might be real. _
You know, I always thought it was just in the computer,
but [F#] I get it.
I feel like I've learned enough to showcase the skills
that [G] of a guitarist trying [F] to play bass _ _ _ that.
[Bm] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ Oh!
_ _ _ You know what?
I'm just gonna use, I'm just, I'm gonna use the [B] pick.
_ _ [A#] _ _ _ _
[B] _ [G] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [A#] _ _
[C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [A#] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
Uber pro bassist now.
I can't believe I'm gonna say this,
_ _ _ _ but this is [D] kind of fun.
This, [E] this thing though, this finger thing,
this, this can burn in fire.
If I did this to my guitar,
it would explode into another dimension.
Well, I'm gonna go play breakdowns on my guitar
for the next [D#] five hours to make [Fm] myself feel better.
But thank you Ernie [C] Ball.
[Am] _ [G#] Comments if more bass video, Patreon.
Bye!
_ Oh, I'm bad at everything.
[Fm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ You can't [E] solve the answer so.
[C#] _ _ _