I welcome to week 12 of Bass Lessons in the music coach program. You made it. Here we are at the end of the program. I want to say a huge congratulations to you for getting all the way through to the end of this program. You've just mastered a really important skill that goes way beyond music, which is the ability to follow through. And it's something that will serve you no matter what you do from here on out.
Learning how to take things in small pieces and follow through on the action and get a little bit better each day is what takes you from knowing nothing about music to being able to play as many instruments and styles as you want to be able to play. In this file week's lesson, you're going to work on putting together all of the different elements which are playing the bass parts for the A sections and beside sections, the melodies for the A sections and B sections and improvising using the G major scale. And that can be the one octave G major scale on the G string, or the first position G scale that starts on the E string. And I really want to encourage you to get into the jam room and try the videos. And if at all possible, see if you can get together with some friends and actually play some music together.
And remember that that's really what the point of all this program is about is to get you ready to make music with other real people in real time. One last thing I wanted to talk a little bit about was volume and projection, which is on the base a unique thing because the base frequencies are so low that they travel in a very different way than all of the other frequencies from the other instruments. So try and be sensitive to how loud you're keeping Your amplifier and the volume on your bass guitar. It can be a little misleading, you might be standing right next to your amp and feel like it's not very loud, but it's actually projecting differently out into the room than you might think. So walk around a little bit if you can if your cables long enough to check out the sound. Another thing we want to talk about this week is matching up your rhythm with the kick drum on the drum kit.
The relationship between the bass player and the especially the kick drum of the drum kit is one of the most intimate musical relationships there is in the popular song because the kick drum and the bass, if they're playing the same rhythms are holding something that we just call a musical pocket. It's like a tightly knit musical relationship. So I want you to start listening for the kick drum pattern that's being played On the drums, and this program in the A section, it's very simple. It's just kick, kick, it's going on the first beat and the third beat of every bar. When you get to the B section, it's going to kick, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick. So an example of how I might want to lock up with that in the B section is to play like this.
Bass, bass, bass, bass, bass bass. Want you to listen to that not only in the song that we're playing, but in music in general and start to become aware of that relationship between the kick drum and the bass guitar. Again, a huge congratulations on coming to the end of the program. And I'm so happy to help you get going on this great musical journey. Please keep continuing on and we'll see you in the practice video.