switching strings - fret all fingers in readiness?

[sensible68]

I'm doing one of the exercises on activebass.com:

excerpt:


G|---------9-8-7-
D|--7-8-9--------
A|---------------
E|---------------


is it good practice to move all three fretting fingers at once when switching strings? so they're all ready to go...

cheers

adam

[WayneS]

In my experience, moving all fingers at once makes it slower. Move them as they're needed IMO.

[tswd]

For speed, it helps to move your fingers before they're needed so that they're already there and ready to go. Consider the following exercise,

G|------7-9------
D|--7-9-----7-9--
A|---------------
E|---------------

If you play it with your index finger on 7 and ring finger on 9, you can get much better speed by moving your index finger to the other string while playing the note on 9 and vice versa.

I haven't tried it, but you might be able to play the exercise you gave more smoothly if you use all four fingers.

G|--------p-r-m-
D|--i-m-r--------
A|---------------
E|---------------

[sensible68]

thanks guys! lots of things to try....

due to the notes leading up to this part, I'm fretting with m-r-p on the D, I'm considering when moving the pinky to the 9th fret on the G, to move the other two fingers simultaneously so it's more of a pull off, but with each note plucked as normal.