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11-19-2004, 10:24 PM
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Have you ever been walking around a store or something and noticed that you're playing fingerstyle on some object like a clothes rack? It's hard to describe what I mean.
I always find myself doing this at work. Thumping along on some unknown bassline on a piece of metal or something. I'm sure people look at me wierd. |
11-19-2004, 10:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: whitehorse yukon canada | | | yah i do it all the time at work at school all the time i slap my thumb on my leg when i am standing around in the middle of a test i will be practicing like a 12321 technique or something i do it all the time and yes people do look at you funny.
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11-19-2004, 11:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: NW Indiana. | | | If I'm sitting down I usually fingerstyle on the seams of my jeans, and when I'm standing, I "air bass" with an "air pick."
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11-20-2004, 12:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bay Area, California, USA | | When I'm in class I usually just practice the double thumb pluck technique on the edge of the desk.  |
11-20-2004, 03:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: ****town, Netherlands | | | every day. on anything that feels even slightly like a string. looks ridiculous. |
11-20-2004, 07:45 AM
| | | | yeah, i play Euphonium also so I run through my scales all day in my head so they're jammed in
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11-20-2004, 10:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Luis Obispo, California | | | I tend to work on my drumming skills when I'm sitting around doing nothing. Occasionally I'll start fingering/slapping on the desk some bass riff I got goin in my head. People have gotten used to me doing it, so they don't look at me weird anymore. |
11-20-2004, 10:48 AM
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Unofficialy endorsing EBMM, Avatar Speakers | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Seattle (ish), WA | | I'd be doing that during a test, and it'd be ridiculously quiet, then you'd hear *thwap thwap crack thwap thump thump* and people would stare at me for at least 5 minutes before I'd realize what I was doing. By my sophmore year in H.S. they came to expect it, and would ask what was wrong when I didn't do it. 
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11-20-2004, 10:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | | i'm doing that while i'm taking a dump
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11-20-2004, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by geoffkhan When I'm in class I usually just practice the double thumb pluck technique on the edge of the desk. | I do that on my steering wheel!
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11-22-2004, 11:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dallas, TX | | Parking brake handle for me.
In all seriousness, I've been doing this consciously for the past 6 years and it has helped me a ton. I figured that the sooner I could get to 1 million reps - the sooner I would get good. It's working, if I do say so myself.  
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11-22-2004, 12:06 PM
| | bass guitarist. | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: usa, virginia, richmond | | | when i figure a song out in my head w/ no bass present i move my left hand fingers around the fretboard and "air scale."
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