Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
Tutorial - Technique tips and musical tips on how to play the Right Hand of the Prelude Number 2 in C minor. Six-string version.
Watch me and Mark Smith of talkingbass.net play the piece here: arisbassblog.com/bach-video-mark-smith-ariane-cap
Find the four-string tutorial here: arisbassblog.com/bach-video-mark-smith-ariane-cap
Easier Bach Pieces: arisbassblog.com/bach-for-two-times-two
Tutorial - Technique tips and musical tips on how to play the Right Hand of the Prelude Number 2 in C minor. Six-string version.
Watch me and Mark Smith of talkingbass.net play the piece here: arisbassblog.com/bach-video-mark-smith-ariane-cap
Find the four-string tutorial here: arisbassblog.com/bach-video-mark-smith-ariane-cap
Easier Bach Pieces: arisbassblog.com/bach-for-two-times-two









![Two-Handed Tapping on the bass: Get started with Chords
Here are a few ideas to get you started tapping chords.
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Here are a few ideas to get you started tapping chords.
00:00 Left hand - root and 10ths
00:28 Right hand - 5th and octave
00:40 A cool basic pattern - up and down
00:59 Mixing up the pattern
01:18 Tapping a chord progression - all majors
01:48 Tapping a chord progression - majors and minors
Transcription
Want to try some chords, tapping style? Heres a good way in.
Groove gear fret wrap engaged. One hand has the root and the tenth. A tenth is a third up the octave. This is major [ π΅ Ari plays example π΅ ] and this is minor [ π΅ Ari plays example π΅ ]
Good fingers for that are one and four for the major and one and three for the minor but other possibilities exist.
The other hand - fifth and octave. Root 5 8 10. You can let them ring - or lift them.
And it gets cool when you start coming up with a cool pattern. Heres a good one to get started: [ π΅ Ari plays example π΅ }
Just up and down one two three four five six seven and then wait. Or you can do one two three four five six seven eight and then repeat lower. [ π΅ Ari plays example π΅ ]
Get the motion started with the metronome and get comfortable. You can play them all in order [ π΅ Ari plays example π΅ ]
or you can break them up. Come up with a cool pattern.[ π΅ Ari plays example π΅ ] Make it speak. Focus on speed when you attack that string. Lower action and thinner strings are helpful.
Chord progressions [ π΅ Ari plays example of all major chords π΅ ]
[ π΅ Ari plays example of major and minor chords π΅ ]
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