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12-28-2012, 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Tvrtko  | What an awesome band! Never heard of them before. I wish that song was complete! Great bass playing!
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12-29-2012, 01:25 AM
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12-29-2012, 04:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Mystic CT | | You clearly did not come from a guitar  converts to 4-string really dont need to put much/any effort into the right hand.. Quote:
Originally Posted by ethanbowen666 hmm I still don't know if I agree with using a pick just "because it makes it easier" per say.
But I was thinking more along the lines of this... |
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12-29-2012, 07:24 AM
| | | | I never had any philosophical issues regarding pick-playing. I play finger-style on bass almost exclusively, mainly because I stink when I play with a pick, just like I do when I play guitar. :-)
I don't gig nowadays, but I occasionally break out the pick to see if I can get better. On certain songs, either for tone or speed, it can come in handy.
I hardly slap at all, because I'm even worse at that than I am with a pick, which distresses me because I'd love to be able to do it well.
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12-29-2012, 07:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Mystic CT | | lol.. am learning fingerstyle but my fingers are not doing what i am not telling them to do... Quote:
Originally Posted by LowNotes1 . I play finger-style on bass almost exclusively, mainly because I stink when I play with a pick, just like I do when I play guitar. :-)
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12-29-2012, 07:52 AM
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Me endorsed? | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | I only use a pick for cover songs that require it. It is hard for me though.... I play a bit of guitar (and have for 30+ years) but on bass my hand cramps up!
As an aside, my guitard gave me a bunch of bass related stuff for Christmas including a couple of felt picks....
Does anyone actually use felt Picks? If so, for what tunes/music styles?
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12-29-2012, 07:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I have always played fingerstyle and did indeed look down in pick players. Ironically almost all the bassists that influenced me playing in the first place played with a pick (Phil Lesh, berry Oakley, roger waters, mike Gordon, etc)
I now really wish I could play better with a pick. Pbass + flats + pick is a great tone. For me, fast and technical stuff is much easier to play with fingers.
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12-29-2012, 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by mystic38 You clearly did not come from a guitar converts to 4-string really dont need to put much/any effort into the right hand.. | I think he's just young and showing his inexperience...
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12-29-2012, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by danomite64 I wanted to be a 'real' bassist, so I kept trying to ditch the pick | I keep hearing this from bass players who are not able to find good pick technique. I don't think that I've ever heard this come from the mouth of any of the teachers or professionals in town, but typically it is somebody who has started playing bass recently who has fewer years of skill that makes the statement "Real Bass Players play with their fingers." Why is it that this statement lives on today?
A pick is nothing more than a tool you can use to get a different tone, feel, play speed, and most importantly, attack. And lets be honest, you are still using your fingers when you fret.. and to grip the pick. Open your mind to the fact that it is simply a way to get a different tone. Stop thinking so narrowly about your own instrument.
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12-29-2012, 09:51 AM
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12-29-2012, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by klaus486 What an awesome band! Never heard of them before. I wish that song was complete! Great bass playing!
:^) | You can find much more clips on youtube....band is SMAK... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJub7WpRsVM
They were part of my youth...
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12-29-2012, 10:01 AM
| | | | When I was much younger and gigging 5 nights a week, I never ever played with a pick until my band decided to cover "Whipping Post" (the beginning's damn near impossible without one).
Now, though, since about 99% of my bass playing is in the studio, it's almost always a pick. My time is better, articulation and muting are both cleaner, and calluses (or the lack of them) aren't an issue. |
12-29-2012, 10:11 AM
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12-29-2012, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by klaus486 What an awesome band! Never heard of them before. I wish that song was complete! Great bass playing!
:^) | Also try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng21fbEFMJg
That album ("Not an ordinary life") changed my life.
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12-29-2012, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by joelb79 I keep hearing this from bass players who are not able to find good pick technique. | Maybe, but that wasn't my reason for learning fingerstyle. When I joined my first band, they were a punk band. I had a P-bass and a pick, and all was good. But we were just opening for the New Wave bands, and those guys all had active Yamaha or Ibanez basses, and played fingerstyle. I wanted to be in a headliner band, so I figured that was the way I needed to play. I also got a Roadstar 850.
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12-29-2012, 11:39 AM
|  | a pigeon from hell.... | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Olympia, WA | | TBird I love your band, smokin! Quote:
Originally Posted by TBird1958 Lol!
I don't have any choice with the band, most of what we do just would be impossible for me to play fingerstyle - But see the link in my sig, I give it a go on "Hungry like the Wolf".
Today, at home I tried "Doctor Doctor" by UFO fingerstyle, didn't make it halfway and my middle finger had cramped 
When I was 19 and used a Rick 4001 I somehow managed to play that song. | |
12-29-2012, 01:15 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Spector basses | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Oslo, Norway | | Yeah, pick vs fingers is tooone all the way.
Well.. And I joined another technical metal band. Their songs are insaaanely fast, so I literally have to use a pick. I am working on my three finger technique but it's not quite there yet. I do love the tone of the pick though and yes, I'm a guitarist turned bassist (but love the bass way more than I loved the guitar!)
Love the maturity in here. 
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12-29-2012, 01:28 PM
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I agree with the TB'ers who say using a pick versus fingers depends on what the song calls for.
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12-29-2012, 01:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada eh? | | I can't play guitar because of a physical impairment. I can play bass however and have always used a pick. I started taking bass lessons when I was 8. The instructor couldn't teach me finger style as he was a guitar player and was teaching me out of a book. I'm now 47 and have my pick technique down to a science. My technique involves angling the pick slightly and using more of the side of the pick as opposed to having it parallel with the string and using just the tip. This picking style and some intricate right hand muting seems to give me more of a finger sound.
Any auditions that I have gone to where someone in the band comments on the fact that I don't use fingers, the subject never comes up again after I play the first song.
I have always been a very aggressive player so using a pick suits me just fine.
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