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11-23-2006, 12:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | Jaco had double jointed thumbs right? |
11-23-2006, 08:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mother North | | | FREAK SHOW
haha nice
Seriously though, I'd rather stick with my 4 feet long fingers than have those freaky rubber ones lol
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11-23-2006, 08:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Northern California | | Only my pinky is double jointed, and it does make it harder to play. Sometimes it kinda spazzes out on me, hopefully I will be able to control it over time 
Edit: by spazzing out out I mean, well it kind of curls up toward my palm when Im playing. Its hard to describe but I have to put effort into moving it back into position and its starting to get really annoying. But whatever, who uses the pinky anyway 
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11-23-2006, 08:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by bassist 4 life Jaco had double jointed thumbs right? |
yes he did
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11-23-2006, 09:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Voorhees, NJ | | | My fingers are like that, not my thumbs though. My fingers kind of curl upwards. That effects my playing. |
11-24-2006, 05:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Shoreditch, London, UK | | | Both of my thumbs are double jointed.
I've never quite understood how this is supposed to help my playing. Could anyone please explain. (Sorry, a combo of no home internet and a hyper-active work firewall means that I can't access the YouTube vids at the moment).
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11-24-2006, 07:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: U.K. | | | all of my fingers and my thumbs are double jointed. doesn't really effect my playing though, I think it helps with some stretches. |
11-24-2006, 07:12 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by bassist 4 life Jaco had double jointed thumbs right? | Here's a pic : 
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11-24-2006, 07:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Shoreditch, London, UK | | | Yes, my thumbs do exactly the above. But does it help?
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11-24-2006, 07:36 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Lyt Pedalboards Beta tester: Source Audio Moderator | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Connecticut | | Maybe that's why Jaco never slapped- he tried to do it once and this thumb just flopped backwards  |
11-24-2006, 07:41 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Jaco did slap - but he did it with his full palm and he demonstrates this on his instructional video! 
You can hear him do it on Joni Mitchell records and the last track on WR's "Mr Gone" has a very prominent "Jaco Slap" on it!!
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11-24-2006, 07:53 AM
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11-25-2006, 09:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mother North | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Disc But whatever, who uses the pinky anyway |
I do 
And yes I mean, on my plucking hand.
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11-26-2006, 04:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Los angeles county | | i dont think it helps at all.
all my fingers are double jointed.
i have long fingers... good reach??? sometimes my joints lock up  |
11-29-2006, 12:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New York, NY | | | my middle fingers are double jointed, not like those picks but i can get them to like "click" into place and then when i press down it moves really fast and powerful in comparison to just smashing down one finger, doesn't really help/hurt my bass playing though
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11-30-2006, 03:40 AM
| | | | Having a curved thumb isn't the same thing as being double jointed (technically it is called hypermobility since you can't truly be double jointed). Curved thumbs are actually dominant over straight thumbs anyways. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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