 Hi, if you're watching this video, you've probably just completed the exercises on bass tone production and you're trying to get up and running on the bass for the NCSSM Orchestra. I want to give you another exercise that takes you to the next step. Again, we're going to leave note reading out of it for now. I just want you to get comfortable with the instrument. One of the things about the bass that we have to do is we rarely just stay in one position. We're going to have to do some shifting. So I would have you do a similar exercise, only this time we're going to shift to third position. Let me show you how it works. It's the same four strokes on every pitch, focusing on good pitch and good tone. So if we start on the G string, open G, first finger A, fourth finger B. Now we're going to shift our hand up to C with our first finger and then D with our fourth finger. Now these are the first five notes of the major scale. I'm sure you recognize that. So let's do the tone quality exercise and put that shift in there, focusing on good sound, accurate pitch. Four strokes on the G string. Now let's do the same thing on the D string. Open D. Here's our shift on the A string and on the E string. Once you can do that with four strokes on every pitch, then you want to switch to three strokes on every pitch, then two, then one. And by the time you can do that with one stroke on every pitch with a beautiful tone quality, you are ready to be an orchestra and we can decipher the note reading and really get you going in terms of the ensemble. Remember that tone quality is the big hurdle to overcome here and all of these exercises really lead us to a good tone quality. Show me what you know when you've done some practicing and I look forward to hearing you play.