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Yeah, one more time. B, A, G, F, E, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, B, A, G, F, E, D, C, B, A, G, F, E. Just up and down, right? The dog starts barking right now.
Now the next step is to then go to the piece of music. We want to look at that, we want to basically go through and play the notes in the order that they occur, calling out note names, using the fingering we established in step 3. So, step 4, do you got those steps in front of you? I gotta open it up in a different one. Oh, no, okay, let me just read it to you. It's, go through the piece out of time, in the proper order of notes, and call out note names as you go. Remember to use the exact fingering that you used in step 3, and keep your eyes on the music. As you look at the music, see in your mind what your left hand is doing.
All right, so we want to play back that video we just took. All right, so you've got page 19 up? Yep. All right, so what I'll do is I'll just go through and call out notes, but use that fingering that we set up. B, A, G, F, E, D, C, B, A, G, F, E, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, B, A, G, F, E, D, C, B, A, G, F, E. Sorry, I know I didn't go into comedy.
All right, so the point is, when you can go through the piece like that without hesitation, then the only thing left to do with it is put the metronome on, or count it off, and play it. And that's what it's doing, huh? Yeah, I guess I finished my music lesson. Yeah, well, I mean, you have to have the rhythm part too, but with just all quarter notes here, you've really got is quarter notes and quarter note rests, we haven't really got a rhythm thing to deal with yet, so yeah, there's that part of it that we'll get into in the rhythm reading part.
All right, now on four string bass there are two positions you can play this on. There's a first position, which we just did, and the second position is going to involve replacing the open strings with fifth fret equivalents. So you notice, fingering-wise, when I started the open position I went four, two, one, four and three open, four and three open. I'm sorry, did I get four, two, open, three, two, one, three, two, one, three, one, open? Right, now if I'm going to replace my open string notes with fifth fret notes, instead of playing the G on the fifth fret of the D string as opposed to open G, then I'm going to shift my starting point to a third finger on that B, and now I'm going to finger it three, one on the G string, four, two, one on the D, four, two, one on the A, four, two, one, stretch, on the E, and then of course the open E. Now, because of that F, that's the lowest position I can play without shifting my hand, because if I go up any higher, then I'm going to actually have to shift, I'm going to have to go down and move my hand to grab that low F.
So in this position I do the same thing, I go up and down. Step 3, B, A, G, F, E, D, C, B, A, G, F, E, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, A, G, F, E, D, C, B, A, G, up and down, doing that, make that mental movie, and then go back to the piece and do step 4. G, G, G, G, A, B, B, A, G, G, F, G, G, same path, sorry. G, G, B, B, G, G, B, B, A, G, G, G, A, B, A, G, F, G, F, G, just to rattle them off. Wow, okay. So the cool thing about going through these steps, as tedious as they are, is that you're reinforcing all the stuff, you're reinforcing note names, you're reinforcing written range...
