 Hi guys, so welcome to part 3. Let's now look at all the tensions and the mysteries and all the creepy intervals Okay, ultimately an interval is The vibe created when two musical sounds collide or meet together an interval in my opinion is an actual Musical sound if you were to just play E That's just a sound in my opinion, which is tuned to a certain fundamental vibrating frequency But a musical sound is actually when you have two of these objects Colliding with each other and the collision can be calm and peaceful like we heard earlier Like the fifths very stable and sort of relaxing or the minors or the major third minor third In the octave they're very calm Then you have the other level of emotions which are sort of like bridges to go back to stability And now we are also looking at the tensions, which is which is ultimately life in general, right? We all go through Every single emotion over our lifetime probably some of us through the same day or over the same day So let's now look at all the tensions or mysteries as I call it sometimes Okay, so the first one you'd like to learn is Usually everyone's favorite for all your heavier stuff, which is your tritone And It's a very symmetric interval. So if you play root E Tritone which is B flat or a sharp You can actually You can also form the octave Okay, so why why we call it a reverse or a symmetric interval is because this one's tritone or B flats tritone ends up being E again. So you get Yeah, that's me trying to play a very popular song but anyway, so you go You can play a higher tritone probably save both your fingers by starting with the middle finger so Tritone It sounds very like diabolic and very sort of Villainess right or very against the system as I sometimes use it for, you know You can build a riff just with the root and the tritone right another cool way to use the tritone Is probably for some bluesy stuff Right, which is also a little bit painful the lyrics are a little bit sadder, you know In fact, that's like a blue scale So in that blue scale root major third perfect fourth perfect fifth flat seven which we learned in video two octave and For more spice we add that tritone Very normal Some people try to do some hammering or maybe Bending guitarists do a lot of bending bass players generally don't at least I don't so Right you could put that together You could hammer on that or pick it If you know hammer-ons you could do like Very riffy Or if you want to just use the tritone, yeah, you can get some more evil stuff going on It's definitely a tension as I'm sure you guys are hearing another Interesting interval which we use a lot in the east is the minor 2 which can also sound scary at the same time It could be very cultural, you know, so if I play If I just keep this the minor second or the flat 2 which can be found next fret same string Tritone was next string next fret. You're moving like an L here. You're just moving immediately. So So that's your root flat 2 back to Again it can be used beautifully to make riffs just with root and the minor 2, you know, you can go like Follow the groove of the drummer or the other musicians of your band and just roll with this And if you combine this with some of the other intervals you learned you can create a very beautiful sound A very Middle Eastern sort of vibe, right Lot of people have used it Very interesting you can immediately change your perception about you know playing music when you have all the sounds Freely readily available at your disposal. So practice them. Well, okay, so we've learned the tritone. We've learned the flat 2 Let's now learn another tension, which is The major 7 so again, it's all on the same fret in In respect with respect to this E. So if you take E F minor second Tritone This is your major 7 ironically the major 7th is part of the major scale, right, but it is considered a tension because You're hearing it those notes are sort of As you can hear they're sort of fighting with each other aren't they Yeah, so You definitely want to use that to sort of lead back to the root. I guess so you go, you know So you just add that for that additional flavor that additional color Okay You Can actually create some very beautiful melodic lines because that is still part Part of the major scale. So if you play the major scale, you know the usual way You're not getting things which are very relatable or very rememberable. So that's where you do a few skips If you could use root second third fifth And then immediately the seventh, but then you can't stay there. So you resolve it back to So you have a riff right there Quite calming actually now now that I put it all together, isn't it? If you want to play a very shiny very Uplifting bass solo, yeah, you could you could use that. So even though it is a tension There is a lot of like very peaceful Calmingness to it as well. Okay, so we've learned try tone minor second major 7th. So another Another two intervals which we haven't yet learned which I consider as mysteries because you can use them in a lot of Circumstances you can use them as a Resolution sometimes they feel like normal you can use them and sometimes they feel like a tension and sometimes they lead back To something or they could be called as an anticipation So let's look at E and let's look at how to build first of all the minor 6th, which I like to form here So that's the fifth which you already know so when you're building more Intervals perhaps you could rely on the ones you already have known Which is the fifth perfect The minor 6th is right above the It's you feel that Tension that mystery And now you feel the calmness right and for a bass it's it's even more mysterious like so you can go You Could also use it You could eventually lead back to the resolution but use this as a connection use this to add some spice or some flavor You Can do stuff like that so the minor 6 is a great interval another interval which you might find very useful is the major 6th Which is found here. How do I form it again? So minor 6? I told right perfect fifth plus one one fret This thing the major 6th will be This interval which you already have learned minus seventh Minus one or if you want to ignore what I just said skip a string down a fret Skip a string down a fret. So I'd prefer to perhaps in this shape plate index finger on root Sorry middle finger on root and index finger on Major 6th, so this is your major 6th Minus 6 a lot more Diabolic a lot more evil or mysterious while the major 6 is very sort of bright or very grand very epic as I sometimes call it Right, so yeah, we've pretty much covered all the tensions as well, right? We've covered the tritone the The Arabic minus second, you know very Middle Eastern vibe and very Beautiful as well Then the major 7th, which brings up a lot of you know bright and uplifting elements Then you also have the minor 6th Which is a bit more, you know James Bond ish I like Yeah And then you have the major 6th which can be played here or If you can stretch you can also play it here, okay? I think I have pretty much covered all intervals Which you can find on the bass guitar, which are actually all the intervals in music if you think about it Even if you're a piano player or a guitar player, you're going to work towards the same goals towards the same objectives It's just that on the bass We need to really Respect these intervals for what they sound like because every decision we make on the bass is important We use it a lot to support the band to really make the guitar sound better to make the vocalist sound better And just sort of glue the band the bass is sort of the locus Where everything meets, you know, so every decision you make is important now in this lesson I haven't talked about a lot of rhythmic things that is also important but harmonically and melodically you also have to make a very very strong Decision or a strong judgment. So please learn your intervals and remember we've divided them into you could say three categories Now we have the resolutions. 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