How do you rest your thumb?

[bass87]

I was just wondering how everyone rests their thumb whilst playing fingerstyle. Do you:

• Keep your thumb resting on the pickups and not move it?
• Float your thumb up and down depending what string you are playing?
• Or have you thumb hanging freely, a la Jamerson?

Or does anyone else have any other technique?

[moley]

I rest mine on either the pickup, or the E string, generally. When I'm using the E string, I rest it on the pickup, otherwise, I rest it on the E string.

PS. Still haven't corrected that dire misspelling of "Kurt Cobain" in your sig?

[bassist_anubis]

I rest my thumb on the E string or pickup as well.

But I hate those thumb rests though

[bass87]

Originally posted by moley
PS. Still haven't corrected that dire misspelling of "Kurt Cobain" in your sig?

Still haven't noticed it's deliberate?

[JMX]

[pennywise]

they float....

[/pennywise]

[christoph h.]

"i float", too.

[Erlendur Már]

I float.

[sambass]

either on the pickup or B (sometimes E) strings. and on the fretboard for some flamenco

[robert betty]

Right now I rest on the B string (5 string) but I want to practice the floating technique. That would solve a lot of my muting problems.

[Turock]

Originally posted by bass87
I was just wondering how everyone rests their thumb whilst playing fingerstyle. Do you:

• Keep your thumb resting on the pickups and not move it?
• Float your thumb up and down depending what string you are playing?
• Or have you thumb hanging freely, a la Jamerson?

I play all of those ways.