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Old 07-15-2008, 10:58 AM
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Now that I've started on upright I'm seeing the obvious benefits of playing open strings:

- less stretching
- intonation reference
- playing faster on upright (goes along with point one)

On electric bass I hardly ever played open strings but I'm changing that also with the upright influence.
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