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Percy White: Hi, welcome back, I am Percy again. Now that you have purchased your bass for whatever reason you want it to have one and whatever style of music you are going to play. Now, you have to know that you have them. I am going to show you something, show you how you need to set it up, how to tune it, everything that you need to do in order to play it. Okay, so the first thing now that you have your bass, you have to tune it because you want to be able to when someone says play me an A, you want to make sure that your A is the same A that everyone else is playing or it is not going to sound good. So, the way you do that is to purchase a tuner, you can get them in any guitar store, you can get them for bass specifically or bass and guitar and I am going to show you the ones I use, I use a chromatic tuner and the chromatic tuner just means that it tunes every note in the spectrum, not just A, B, C or D it will tune A flat, B flat, all of them. So, what I have in my tuner is, I use BOSS, its a chromatic tuner and youll see right there chromatic tuner and I use this one because my bass, this bass has more strength then a regular one and this tuner, you can see it have all the notes, C, D, E, F, G, A, B and so forth, but it has a sharp right here and that light right there lets you know if you tuning D sharp, E sharp which is F or D flat everything. So this is a chromatic tuner, I like using it because it tunes every note on my bass and I can also use it for my upright. So, when you buy a bass, you have to buy a tuner so it has to be in tune. So, when you playing with other people, you know that you are playing the right notes and that it sounds good. Sound is most important thing.

Expert: Percy White

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Percy White is a professional bassist living in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He is originally from Philadelphia, Pa. He started playing bass when he was 10 years old after trying unsuccessfully to play guitar. As he puts it, "It just made sense. The bass has four strings and I have four fingers to play them with." He started playing by ear but after hearing Stanley Clarke he realized that he had to take More »

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These series of videos will take the beginning student from purchasing the correct bass to playing and practicing the basic techniques and exercises to get the student out and playing in a band situation. These More »

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