| My techniques.
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I have tried many techniques for my plucking hand and have found three I like. I have used a pick and sometimes that is good for songs that are not bass intensive, where you are just hammering along on quarter notes.
The ones I use most though are considered odd by some. I use a Ibanez SR-300 4 string, I added a thumb rest above the pickups. When I'm just playing normally I'll tend to use normal plucking with a twist I slam my fingers in tip first like a piano hammer. This gives me a twang, almost slap bass sound.
When I'm playing faster stuff that needs to be crisp I use a set of banjo picks. It has one that slides over the thumb where the pick juts out over the side, and two metal ones that cover the index and middle finger where the pick part curves over the finger tips.
When I need the boomier sounds I let off the volume on my humbucker and I use a basic plucking technique that most finger players would use only I play back near the bridge for the lower notes and up around and sometimes on the neck for higher ones.
As for tuning I use all the techniques. Just depends on my mood. I have a proggy on my laptop I use. I just plug in through the mic jack and it works perfect. When I'm playing with some guys I've never played with before I show off a bit and tune by ear, just hit each string once and go by memory of the notes and listen for disonance between the strings. Sometimes they ask me to go back with a tuner before we play. I'm usually withing a half a cent of dead on. Harmonics are for when I'm just messing around with no amp generally, and the old 5th fret double pluck is what I would use on stage in a pinch.
Anyone else have there own personal approach?
Last edited by Barcode31 : 05-16-2009 at 09:09 PM.
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