Chords for The Murphy Method - Beginning Bass

_ _ _ _ _ _ Ready Marshall?
Ready Murphy.
Here we go.
_ [G] All right, now that you've got your bass fiddle in tune and you know how to hold the bass,
Marshall's gonna show you exactly how to pluck the strings.
_ _ I'll just pull a couple of strings here Murphy and then talk a little bit about hand position.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
As you can see I've got my [Bb] right hand down close to the end of the fingerboard.
There's where the fingerboard ends and I locate my hand in that area generally.
_ _ I've got my thumb
_ _ anchored resting on the side of the fingerboard as you can see there. _ _ _
Using
_ _ _ _ primarily my first and second finger, index and second finger, and I've got [G] got my fingers almost
parallel to the strings so that
when I pull I can really get a good _ pull, pull the string hard when I want to.
What you don't want to do at the moment, let's
concentrate on that position as opposed to having your finger _
_ more or less perpendicular to the string and pulling with just the tips of the finger.
Don't do that.
Really get a good bit of the finger and you can really pull that string
good and hard.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
Ready Marshall?
[A] Ready Murphy.
All right now we'd like to start talking about chords on the bass fiddle.
Now when the song calls for a G chord, when the guitar player is playing a G chord,
the notes that you use on the bass fiddle are the G string, which of course is a G note and the D string.
So you play the strings alternately G D
G D and [G] that's what the bass fiddle plays when a G chord is called for.
Marshall
why don't you just play a few of those G and D notes for them?
Okay, that's G
[D] D _
[G] G [D] and D.
[G] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [G] _ All right now let's try that with the guitar.
You ready Marshall?
Ready Murphy.
I'll count her off.
One two ready go. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ All right, you notice that the bass fiddle plays when the guitar plays
its bass strings.
Guitar plays a bass string in a strum.
The bass fiddle doesn't play on the strum [D] just plays when the [Gm] guitars hitting the bass strings.
All right [N] now
one way that may help you keep a lot of this stuff in your mind is to start thinking in groups of
four.
Okay, frequently a song will come up and you'll have four beats of G or you'll have four beats of D and
things like that.
So if you start thinking in groups of four that may help you.
So everything we do from now is pretty much going to be thinking in groups of four.
So we're going to start right now
by playing four groups of
the notes we use in the G chord.
So I'm going to be counting and I'm gonna be one two three four two
two three four and you're just gonna be playing your G and D and
concentrate on that feeling of four.
Are you ready Marshall?
Yes ready.
Here we go.
One two
ready [G] play one two three _
_ four two two three _
_ four three two three _
_ four four two three _
four.
_ Are you ready Marshall?
I'm ready Murphy.
Are you ready Marshall?
Ready Murphy.
Okay ready Marshall?
Ready Murphy.