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Now we will play Minor 2nds going down.

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Minor 2nds

Intervals can be thought of as musical inches.

An Interval is a measurement of the musical distance between two notes.

Now we will learn how to read accidentals in music notation.

This note would be called G sharp, which is a half step higher than G.

A Half Step is the same as a Minor 2nd, or a Semitone.

This note would be called E flat which is a half step lower than E.

The notes you have learned to play so far in position 1 are called Naturals.

These are notes that are named after a letter, such as A, B, C, etc...

The notes that fall in between Naturals are called Accidentals.

Here are all the notes we've learned to read so far on the bass, written in music notation.

And here is what they look like on the bass.

Now we will review all the notes we have learned to read on the bass clef.

Remember the lines can be memorized with Great Big Ducks Fly Away.

The spaces can be memorized with All Cows Eat Grass

Now we will review all the notes we have learned so far.

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Now we will review the low strings of the Bass A and E.

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Now we will practice reading music on the low E String.

The notes that we learned on the E String look like this in music notation:

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Now we will see what these notes look like in music notation.

Because the notes on the E String are quite low, some actually go below the staff, like this:

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