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When you are comfortable with the technique of following the chords and getting a painless, mellow sound; you will want to start playing an alternating bass pattern. This involves playing the root note of a chord on the first beat of a measure and the fifth note of a chord on the third beat of the measure. On the BASS BOX for any chord you pick the blade directly to the right of the root note will be the fifth of that chord. Example - while the guitar player plays a D chord, the BASS BOX player plays the root of the chord (D) on the first beat of the measure and plays the fifth of the chord (A, the blade directly to the right of the D note) on the third beat of the measure -- the "boom chuck, boom chuck" becomes "D chuck, A chuck".

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