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As a general rule when practicing, should you put more or less physical effort into practicing patterns and such, or should you put in as little as possible? For example, I've heard of guitarists talking about their practice routines and they'll say they like to pick and fret everything as...

The B string on my fretted bass is just doesn't feel right, its hard to explain it. For one, the relationship between my thumb, my fingers, and the string is simply uncomfortable. I personally feel that it is the positioning of the pickup that I'm resting my thumb on. Its hard to explain xD, it...

Thank you. And as a general rule when practicing, should you put more or less physical effort into practicing patterns and such, or should you put in as little as possible? For example, I've heard of guitarists talking about their practice routines and they'll say they like to pick and fret...

So I recently traded an ESP LTD guitar to the ex bass player of my band for his fretless bass that he had played in the band before. Kinda funny how the "batmobass" as they call it is back in the band even though its a completely different band with me in there xD, but anyways.. The bass is an...

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Bass: Tense Fret Hand Troubles: Hopefully everything is explained well enough in the video. Only a couple minutes.

I personally feel that distortion makes the bass sound fuzzy and it doesn't compliment the guitars nearly as much. Don't get me wrong, I want to be heard, on stage and in our recordings. So overdrive isn't really an option for me, I need clarity in order to sound good, by myself and as the...

Lately I've been having a lot of days in which I'm practicing and I feel like I just suck ass and should give up. I feel like I'm playing sloppy, maybe not hard enough to provide clarity to faster passages, like I'm just a mediocre bassist and I'm not getting better technically and I'll always...

I've been playing for about a year now and I have to say I feel much better when I have a bit of fingernail-action going on. It makes the attack sound much more appealing to me, I feel faster, I feel more fluid, everything. I've played things and cut my nails and tried to play them afterwards...

Essentially this all started because the B string saddle screw is stripped, so I can't adjust the action, so I had to deal with it buzzing very irritatingly. The screw for the intonation is all messed up as well. I decided I'd take the bridge off, attempt to clean the grimey grossness (I bought...

So I ended up talking to the ex-bassist of this group that recently split up and he said he could probably hook me up with the new melodic death metal band they're starting up. The plan was that I'd head up to his place, he'd show me some of the riffs that they've got and that they want me to be...

So I was just starting to mess around with modes and was starting with the E Ionian, and I was pedaling the low E so I could get a grasp of the sound or whatever. Then I noticed that when I landed on the 5th, it sounded a lot more like music as opposed to me just noodling through a scale like...

I have looked it up, I watched 3-4 videos on it. They all essentially just told me how it works instead of why it's important or what it means.

I'm literally asking for help understanding theory, the complete opposite. Again, I'm not bashing theory nor am I saying that it's useless, I merely said that I was afraid of learning something that I wouldn't be able to apply to my playing, thus hindering my progression. I understand that it's...

Thanks, maybe I'll consider it a bit more. I always think of the phrase "if you love your job, you never work" whenever I contemplate becoming a musician. Its just iffy for me, I can't tell if its a sustainable sort of income or not. It feels like you'd absolutely HAVE to become a music teacher...