 Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. In this lesson, we are going to learn the great Beatles song, the rock and roll blues classic, Day Tripper. There's an iconic bass riff by Paul McCartney, which you have to learn and get your bass out, get your pens, papers out if you want to make a note of the tabs or the notation, or you have it all covered, you can just download a copy and get yourself the tabs and the notation on Patreon to help supplement the learning. So I'm going to walk you through the entire phrasing of the, of Day Tripper, which is the verse, first of all, just the riff, then it goes through a kind of a bluesy progression, almost like a 12 bar blues. But then there are two segments or two sections to the song. So there's the E and A chord bit. And then there's it goes into the turnaround or the chorus, you could say, where he sings Day Tripper. Okay, so let's get cracking with the main riff then it's on the E seventh chord. So that goes. Okay, let me break that down for you. Open E, E, G, G sharp, one and two and three and one and two. So it's a dotted crotchet there on E. It lasts one and a half counts. One and two and three and four and let's only do that together. So one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and then it continues one and two and three and four and wait two and three and four and that's the loop. Let's do it very slowly to the notes again. E, G, G sharp, E, D, B, F sharp, B, D, E, E. So that's open E. E, G, G sharp, E, E, D, B, fret it, B on the second fret of the A string. B, F sharp, it's fifth. F sharp, B, D, E, open D, E, that's the riff right there. But there's more. So get acquainted with this. Okay, break that down again. One and two and three and four and while all this is happening there's an E seventh chord lingering. So this all goes with that E seventh. B, B, B, B, D, A, loop very slow. Now this luckily for us bass players goes with the verse where we sing got a good reason. I have no idea how Paul McCartney is able to sing it and play the bass guitar at the same time. It's incredible. I will just try in this lesson. So stick around. Let's try it. So you don't have to do it with singing. That's quite tricky, but if you can nothing like it. Now we change the riff to A. You can go open A and pretty much repeat the pattern. So the same shape with the opens what you did for E. You started on the open E. Now you do it on the open A and this will serve well over the A seventh chord. Only once. When I say only once, I mean two bars of music which is over that A seventh chord. So got a good reason is over E seventh. And then you repeat at taking the easy way out. The E riff taken the easy way out. Now you do it on A got a good reason. Copy the intervals. Come back to taking the easy way out back to low E taken the easy way out now because she's now coming to the she's a day tripper part. You'll be playing F sharp dominant seventh chord. So the riff is very simple. It's four F sharps where you just have to play. What I like to do is add a couple of variations which I'll show you. So first off the actual bass line F sharp. It's third. It's fifth. So that's F sharp A sharp C sharp which is its fifth. The dominant note dominant seven which is E D sharp F sharp. So that's the whole lick. Into four. I'll teach you that later. Now small variation I do there. So I do the second bar with an off F sharp. Okay that's the F sharp part. So far we've learned. Taking the easy way out now. Got a good reason on A. Taking the easy way out now. Now day tripper F sharp. Four times fourth time and now we do the A. That's this shape right here. So I'm playing A with my E string fifth fret one two three four five and I go that's one three five seven flat six octave. Now you could even do that with opens A C sharp E G open F sharp A. You could also do it with all fretting. Nice shape right here. Start with a pinky on A A ring on C sharp index on E G pinky F sharp ring octave index. Now you drop your whole hand down a fret. So if you like patterns you can do it. Sliding down to A flat seven. Or you could do it with opens then your hand is just in one place. A flat. Okay so F sharp from the F sharp day tripper part. Four times of that. Na na na na na na. It took me so long to find out. To find out now that'll be D flat. I find out B which is the dominant taking me back to the E. So C sharp very easy bass guitar part. That's root third fifth octave starting with D flat. And you copy paste the shape to B. So D flat. Na na na na B. Na na na back. Okay so let me walk you through the entire riff trying as best as I can to do the the words. Okay first of all the riff without anything. But oh now I've got a good reason. Taking the easy way out now. Got a good reason. So that is day tripper and there's just one more section and then you pretty much play the same lick which you used to play the same intervals but starting on B so that's root. And then come down to the seventh. Which is that the vocal part. Okay and then it pretty much comes back to. So the notation is available on our patreon get yourselves a copy it'll also have the tab super imposed with the staff notation in the bass clef of course it'll also have the chords and so on. So all the best with learning day tripper it's a great song an incredible riff quite challenging also so all the best with that and hope you found the lesson useful guys if you did do consider giving the video a like a thumbs up which you see there give us a comment with something you'd like to learn next and don't forget to hit subscribe and hit the notification bell cheers and catch you in the next one.