coupla questions!

[jefkritz]

i would highly recommend learning to play with a pick and how to slap, as well as using your fingers.

i've played bass for 7 years, and i've pretty much done only fingerstyle. it's gotten me pretty far. but now i find myself trying to get better at picking and slapping (i'm only okay at both) as i feel limited. both styles open up new sounds / feels / textures unachievable by fingerstyle alone. though fingerstyle can do just about anything, it can't do everything. sometimes a song just needs some pick bass.

while you're at it, learn to use 3 (or 4) fingers and learn to use your thumb as well. but definitely learn picking and slapping.

[lexxmexx]

Originally Posted by skeptikal

That's my problem as well. I played Alto Sax for years. I've been doing this. The note trainer on musictheory.net has helped quite a bit. Everything is just 1 line/space lower. instead of the spaces of the treble FACE, on bass they are ACEG. The lines of treble are EGBDF, on bass it's GBDFA. But yea, the note trainer has helped with that.

http://musictheory.net/trainers/html/id82_en.html

Oh wow! A fellow sax player!