| First Bass Teacher questions
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Well, ive been playing bass for about one year now, and i just got my first teacher and had my first lesson.
So, he had me play some things, then told me to try playing in rest stroke (ive played free stroke on pretty much everything so far). I was like, okay, learning another technique is good. Then he changed my thumb position from one parallel to the neck to one that lines up with my middle finger. I went through the lesson, went home, and now im having trouble. Im playing the lines he gave me with basically no problems with rest stroke, but when i try to play something faster, for example the hysteria bass line, i simply cannot do it anywhere near fast enough using rest stroke. Using free stroke i felt comfortable jumping from the A string to the G string no problem, but with rest stroke, it seems so hard to move my right hand that fast. I also am unsure if he wants me playing double stops with rest stroke, and if that even possible considering the higher stringed finger would come down and mute the lower string.
My main question is, if you play one style stroke, should you stick to only that style stroke? or would jumping back to free stroke for lines like hysteria or other fast lines be ok? My middle finger feels weird playing with my thumb there, since i used to play cello, but i think ill get used to that. | 
