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PSo Anyway, just play. Find some folks to play with and just play. Every opportunity that you get. You'll see that the pick/fingers...
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PLet me clarify - right hand finger style technique. And, yes, Carol started as a jazz guitarist so playing bass with a pick would have...
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PI love to gig. That's why I took up bass. (Later, I fell in love with the bass.) I first bought an old Korean Thunderbird and...
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PYep - playing a pick with flats is LOVELY. :D
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PAre you going to tell Carol Kaye that, or do you want us to? Granted, she was a guitar player first, but she did play bass a bit too.
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PI can play with either but usually play with fingers as the tone is better for most of the music I play. But I love to play my P with a...
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PMaybe this would work for you if you feel like you'd like to play with your fingers: Back in the Pleistocene when I started, it was...
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PHow do you slap with a pick in hand?
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PIt's not too late to mix it up a bit ;).
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PI'd recommend reading a few threads and watching a couple videos on both pick technique and types of picks. It's pretty easy to pick...
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PThere's even picks that help emulate finger playing. Like the Ibanez elastomer 2.2mm soft picks. It's not 100% the same but in a mix...
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PNo, maybe, and yes. Its all choices and options, not a right or wrong. Picks arent fingers in the same way fingers arent picks. Play...
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PAn advantage of a pick is you can move in opposing directions, so you can get some nice rhythms going with note clusters on two adjacent...
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PIf you want to play rock, perhaps. If you play jazz you can get by just fine, even better, with just fingers.
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PI have a guitarist friend who bought a Stingray and wanted to learn bass. I advised him to play with a pick, since he was comfortable...
