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Originally Posted by Bassist4Life |
Wow that guy does it a lot differently than I do. I basically do it the same way as Adam Nitti and Geddy Lee where the thumb is planted on a string, 1 or 2 above the string your playing. Only time I would have more in betwene is if im doing some chord work. Todd seems to just lay it on the strings rather than doing any kind of planting. It looks uncomfortable to me. But if it works....
Although if I am playing faster, there's no time to plant it, so I sort of drag it real fast over the strings. Sometimes I do a weird kind of weaving in and out of the different string with my thumb. It seems weird to me but I can do it really fast and it works.
Im kind of the opposite where I learned to play this way naturally on my own, and lately im trying to get better with planting it higher up just to see if there is any advantage to doing it this way, although its not really making my playing better. Its actually just slowing me down. I really cant play well trying to plant it more than 3 strings above the one im playing.
Really the biggest advantage of the floating technique outside of the muting that you get, is it allows you to keep your hand in a natural position most of the time. Adam Nitti talks about the importance of this alot, because for some people, playing with your hand in an unnatural position by leaving your thumb either on the E, B or pickup strings all the time can cause problems in your hand later in life. Dont know if there is any real truth to that since I dont play that was and im only 29.
