Recent content by Brownie3rd

Interesting to learn that I'm not the only one. The thing is I have tried using three fingers to hold the pick before when playing guitar to try and get more speed with down picking since that is how James Hetfield holds the pick but it never felt right to me which makes it all the more...

I've noticed recently that I have a different technique when playing with a pick between guitar and bass, when it's guitar I hold it between my thumb and index finger with a mostly open hand but when I play bass with a pick I tend to hold the pick with my thumb, index and middle finger and have...

Thanks for the tip on guitarmadness, that is more the price I was looking at spending.

Recently gotten back into playing bass and the noise from the jazz pickup is starting to annoy me. It's an old entry level yamaha p/j bass so I don't want to spend too much money on it so if anyone can recommend me something cheap I'll be all ears.

Welp, the decision kinda got made for me, went to the shop to check it out only to discover it had sold on the weekend and the website hadn't updated. I do want to thank you all for the advice you gave though and for the record, it was pushing me to buy it, but it looks like it wasn't meant to...

Yeah that's the bass I'm looking at and thanks for the link, I''ll check it out while I think things through.

Hi, I'm new here and just like the topic says I'm thinking of getting a fretless. Now I know asking strangers online if you should buy something is pretty much always answered with a yes, but I thought I'd explain myself and get some advice. First off, I'm not a bass player, I'm a guitarist and...