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Now we're going to take a look on how to find our first couple of frets. Again, first you
want to tune it to the piano. E, you match it up. A, D, and G. There's a thing on tuning
on Expert Village, too, if you search for it tuning the Double Upright Bass. To find
your first fret, what you want to do, is you play the open string and then on the second
string, here, you're going to find the same note, and that's your second fret. If you
cut that in half, you get your first fret. And you want to finger that one and two. It's
good practice to go up and down the fret board on every string (demo). It's very important
to get these frets down because we're not going to use any open strings on the G flat
major scale. I'm sorry if you like the open strings, it just doesn't happen in G flat.
We're going to go through and you want to make sure you either mark these down on your
fret boar, you can do it with either pencil or don't do it with pen, or you can put some
stickers there to remind you where it is. Or, if you can just remember where that is
and you think you've got that sound down, you can do whatever you want to do. But that's
how you find those first two frets.