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Here are the names of the notes as they are written on the staff in bass clef and as the same notes appear on the four-string bass:
 
     
The difference between E and F and between B and C is a half step, or a single fret apart.  The rest of the notes are whole steps and separated by a fret (sharp or flat) between them.  These sharps or flats between whole steps are called “accidentals”.
 
We use a natural sign to cancel an accidental previously used:
     
Accidentals, including the natural sign, only apply to the bar in which they are used.
 
     
 
     
I made the statement back in lesson #1, we say "G#" instead of "Ab" and "C#" instead of "Db", don't we.”
 

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