| hey i started on upright too. be real careful making the switch, cause i had some bad technique going for a while on BG.
most of the same principles apply, like keeping your LH in a "C" shape. some people will say to keep the thumb parallel to your fingers, but others say that its ok to angle it a bit towards the headstock. i assume you're used to the standard simandl fingerings...3 stops for every position. this is what i did on bass guitar for a while. bad mistake. and i say this only because its a hard habit to break. typically you'll want to adopt more of a cello style, one finger per fret (more than that too, all the movements of a cello player are good to copy, like fingering pressure). what i see a lot of BG players do is use upright-style fingering (index, middle, ring+pinky) on the lowest 5 frets or so because of the long reach, and then switch to one finger per fret. if you can do one finger per fret below the 5th fret, more power to you. also for slap, when you are doing a lot of fifths and octaves, it might be easier to use upright fingering.
then theres the more specific stuff like...only apply as much pressure as you need to push the string down cleanly...right behind the fret is the cleanest sounding place to finger...don't hold up the neck with your hand...try to acheive as straight a wrist as possible (a 45 degree neck angle is ideal for this)...i assume you're getting a fretted and not a fretless? anyways, hope this helps.
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Originally Posted by walker rosewood  Fieldy doesn't play bass. He swats at bungee chords loosely attached to a slab of wood. | | 
