I'm awful w my right hand....

[slinginsix]

I've been playing bass for 30 years...with a pick. I can slap rudimentarily, and fingerstyle alittle. I've been without a bass for 3 years, and am about to aquire one. I've made a vow that I will NOT use a pick, and really concentrate on my right hand technique...but man its humbling to realize how horrible I am...

[slinginsix]

PS, I guess you could say "my" style is a mix of Phil Lesh and Entwistle in terms of my picking technique and musical style. But man, after 30 years, and there's still SO MUCH TO LEARN!!!

[ezsye]

aahh grasshopper, it's the trip that makes life exciting, not the destination!.......and so we practice......

[mrkrinkledude]

Victor Wooten once told my dad that all you need to worry about is using your fingers in a "1-2-1-2-1-2" method. Sort of like walking, but without the feet.....

[Allmanfan456]

I used a pick when I started and for 3 years I used a pick. I swore to not use a pick unless absolutly nessesary and for the past year ive done well with my fingers. So just practice! Make sure your technique is good though. Mine wasent good and I deveoped carpal tunnel in both my hands.

[HelloJerk]

Personally, I use my fingers, and until recently always have, but after seeing some Youtube videos of Carles Benavent I have been experimenting with a pick.

I was a finger snob for something like twenty years, but now I realize taint nothing wrong with a pick.

I guess my advice on the subject is, don't limit yourself.

[bearfoot]

Just keep at it, and you'll start to see dividends. It is brutally slow at first. I advise against using the thumb as an anchor, but that's just me. The 'floating' right hand comes in handy when switching instruments also -

[Tvrtko]

From the begining, I had a problem with (for my opinion) my slow fingers (1-2). I spent couple of years playing classic guitar and stopped when I reach flamenco technic... I could not make it...

Just about last fall, I have read some medicine magazine in which was explained how some genetic groups have SLOW muscles.

Guess what? I am in one of those groups! I tried everything to gain the speed. It just does not work. So, I gave up and keep playing just the blues... BeBoop seems to be for me (ethernal 1/4 notes... )