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If you’re new to the bass guitar and want to find a way to easily memorize all the notes, look no further. Learning all the notes of your bass guitar neck is much eerier than you think. Once you have all the notes of your bass neck memorized, you’ll be able to play just about any song in seconds.

This way, then next time someone says to you “Hey can you play a song in A#?” you’ll know exactly where your fingers need to go and what notes to play. It doesn’t what kind of bass you play to earn all the notes on the neck.

If it’s a Fender bass neck, or a double neck bass or a Yamaha bass guitar, if you learn one you’ve learned them all. All bass necks are all the same. Some do vary depending on how many string you have, but the bass guitar neck is generally the same for all. For these exercise, I am using a 4 string bass guitar.

The first step is to grab your bass guitar, a piece of paper, and a pen/pencil/marker. Lay your bass guitar on its back so the notes are pointed toward you. Next grab the piece of paper and draw a diagram of your entire bass with each fret. However, while you draw this leave each fret blanks we cans go back alter and fill in all the correct corresponding notes so you will have a visual representation of the bass guitar neck and you can easily being to memorize all the notes. Once you have your diagram completed, we can begin filling in the correct notes.

Starting with the E string (the thickest string), we will begin with the open E. Open E refers to playing the E string without hitting any notes so the sound will be a low E. Then we can move to the 1st fret, which will be F (because there is only a 1/2 step between E and F and B and C. All other notes will receive a #). After F we will move up on effete to F#. Then we move to the 3rd fret at G. After this we go to G#, then to A then to A# to B to C (1/2 step) to C# to D to D# and back to E on the 12th fret. The 12th fret will always be one octave higher than the open string you are on. Depending on how many frets you have on you bass neck, you will repeat these steps starting without he 13th fret the same as there 1st fret.

Next we have the A truing. So playing this open will be the note A. Next we move to the 1st fret of A# then to B then to C on the 3rd fret (1/2 step between B and C). Then we go to C# then to D then to D#, to E to F (1/2 step) to F# to G to G# and back to A on the 12th.

Now it’s the D string. Start with open D and move to the 1st frat at D#. Then we go to E and to F on the 3rd fret (1/2 step). Next we go to F#, to G to G# to A to A# to B to C (1/2 step) to C# and back to D on the 12th fret.

Last we have the G string (the thinnest of the 4 strings). Playing this open will be the note G. Then the 1st fret will be G# then to A. On the 3rd fret will be A# then to B to C (1/2 step) to C# to D to D# to E to F (1/2 step) to F# and back to G on the 12th fret. And that’s it!

Once you have all the notes completely filled in correctly, you can now begin to visually memorize all the notes in the correct order. Now you’ll be able to play any note someone requests and navigate your entire bass neck with ease and confidence. You’ll be jamming on your bass speaker cabinet in no time impressing people left and right. Once you have all the notes memorized, you’re well on you way to becoming a great bass player.

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