 Hi guys, so welcome to part 2 of this series on bass intervals. So in part 2, we are going to learn the anticipations or all the intervals which want to resolve to the resolutions. What are all the resolutions we learnt in the first video again, we have the root, we have the octave, I have chosen E for our study, then we have the fifth which is B, major third, or the sadder, melancholic, mournful, minor third, or the more serious minor third, or the more uplifting, or the more brighter, or the more playful, oh man I am running out of words, major third. So you have these intervals which we learnt in the last class and now what we will do is we will learn anticipations and anticipations are going to be used more as passing tones. Or intervals which you would want to use for additional color or additional flavor in order to reach back into the resolutions in a very sort of creative way. You could think of the resolutions more as pillars and then in between the two pillars you can move in certain interesting pathways and that's the anticipations. So let's get started, the anticipations on the bass are, the first thing I want to talk about is the perfect fourth which is super easy. The bass guitar essentially is tuned in fourths. So even if you take the open strings you'll have E tuned to A, tuned up to D and then up to G. So those are all perfect fourths. So if you start here the equation is not going to change one bit. So if you want the perfect fourth from E, you get to your A. So when you're learning perfect fourth, since it's a very popular interval especially for building up your chord progressions you could do root, upper fourth, root, down a fourth, root, upper fourth, root, down a fourth, right and you remember the fifth from earlier you went root, fourth, fifth, this is your fifth, root, lower fifth. So you may want to try and make up some simple chord progressions if you will using just the root fourth fifth or root fourth fifth and try to do this, well you can do it with a lot of music, right? In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight. What did I do there? One, four, one, five or knock, knock, knock in all heaven's door, yeah. What was that? That was like one, five, four or if you like a higher five, one, knock, knock in all heaven's door, then you go to higher five and then the lower fourth or the higher fourth is the same thing or whatever. I think I'll stop here you get the idea, right? So you have the root, the fourth, the fifth, root, the fourth, the fifth. So practice them. Another very, very important interval on the bass, especially for building bluesy bass lines, funky bass lines or R&B, soul, those sort of bass lines will be the flat seventh. So let's try and form that. The flat seven is exactly on the same fret as the root, but you skip a string and you play it like here. There'll be E, D, E, D. Flat seven is also called as a minor seventh or a dominant seventh. So you go E, D, E, D, E, D. So you use this a lot along with the third. You know, you could do E, D, E. Or with the fifth. Or with the octave. Fifth, flat seven, fifth, flat seven octave. So you have built a riff, kind of like this riff actually. So you go... And a nice thing about the flat seven, which was here, is you can also play it down here for a more rocky vibe. Stuff like that. And I've used just the intervals we've learned so far. That's... Yeah, it's similar to some popular stuff you must have heard already. Very rock, rock sounding. You could try that. This is your flat seven. You may not want to play it like that because that's too high. So when you play the flat seven, maybe you want to do it with a few other intervals. Like... Like add it and then resolve it back to the octave. So you see what's happening. These anticipations always want to generally, when you use them in a cycle, they want to resolve somewhere. Similarly, if you play the fourth, which we learned earlier. The fourth is nice, but a little unstable. You'll figure that out when you... When it comes back to the third, right? One, four, three. And now it feels a little bit more stable. Or... One, four, minor third. Even though the minor third feels sad, sad is still a very stable emotion, isn't it? So you go... Perfect fourth we've learned. Lower perfect fourth. Higher minor seventh. Or dominant seventh. Or lower dominant seventh or minor seventh. So the lower one is more edgy, more rocky sound. While the higher one is, I guess, more funky. Or more... Maybe more bluesy. Something like that. Great, so that's about your four and your seven. Let's now look at the other, what we call as anticipation, which is the two. Super easy, right? This is what we call as the major second. You can literally play it on the same fret. Sorry, same string up, skip a fret and play the F sharp, which is the major second. Or if you want to generate a major second and you're starting with the pinky, then you can find the same major second here. That's F sharp in the E major scale. Right? So the three anticipations again. Perfect fourth. Lower perfect fourth. Minor seventh or dominant seventh or flat seventh up top. Lower minor seventh below the root. Major second above the root. Major second above the root from a different position. Right? So you want to use these anticipations to color up your riff. But keep in mind that the resolutions are the pillars. You want to practice them first. Those are your go-to's. And then you add this for additional flavorings. Right? So in the next lesson, what we are going to do is we are going to look at all the mysterious stuff. The tensions, the mysterious intervals, which you'll find more in movies or in more heavier songs. You know? So let's get to that in the next lesson. In conclusion, so far we've learnt resolutions. In video one, we've learnt anticipations in video two or passing notes. In video three, we're going to learn more. Tensions and mysteries. So head over to that once you've sorted this out. And as always, this is Jason here from the Nathaniel School of Music. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel. Hit that like button. Share the video if you liked it with your friends who play music. And everything else you can do nice for us. Great. Cheers.