Recent content by StoneFrog

I'm 26 and two years in. Learning and playing music is a lifelong friend. (I just hope the partying and the concerts never get old either. :p )

My bad, I should have been clearer. There is some drop in my wrist, but it's pretty much just gravity. Some people seem to stretch/pull their wrist down to get more. Hmm, true. What I want to do is shift the weight towards the bridge more. Right now my bass (SR300) always wants to fall at like...

I am thinking about moving the upper strap button to the lower horn, so my bass is more naturally angled out in front of me. Scratching my head at Scott Devine's lesson about a "dropped palm" (see below). I mean yes, I keep space between my fingers and the neck, and sometimes his hand looks...

Well, I got some lighter strings, reduced my action a bit more. I used the 7th fret on A as a reference point (since I tend to play in that area a lot) and got the 7th fret on all strings pretty easy to fret now. Of course I'm a bit nervous if/when the "left wrist tendon pop/flex" will come...

Hands are back to normal and I'm easing back into a little bit of playing. Reaching* yeah. I don't do any "stretching" outside my span before frets 9-10 or so. I think you are describing the shifting tendon in my arm but it's really freaky when I feel it suddenly. Rapid alternation between...

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I'll take your advice. As for the "butt crack palm," it's necessary to keep my thumb in contact with the neck (do I have shorter than average thumbs?) - unless I stick it way out, like a hitchhiker's thumb. I did take one lesson with Mike Richmond, who's a bit shorter than me, and I noticed he...

I'm not sure how I can pivot and keep the first note pressed at the same time, as in the case of a hammer-on? So I'm not really pivoting here, and for frets 1-3 I don't have to if I use Simandl. But as a result it's a "squeezing" motion to get the other finger down, I guess, and after a while my...

I wanted to provide an update, though it isn't exactly wrist angle-related: Sometimes when stretching from the left index to the left pinky finger whilst keeping the left index finger down, i.e. when hammering a second in the lower frets, I would feel a sort of flexing or "popping" in the...

Yeah, her playing style makes a lot more sense to me and is how I'd rather it "look." Very helpful video to study. I think I'm going to stick with my more relaxed style because so far it hasn't limited my speed. Then again I don't play anything really fast right now (been transcribing "Elegy" by...

Interesting discussion. Also, I thought the book "Bass Fitness" said to keep the fingers down, in the introduction, but it seems to vary by exercise. Part A for example is just "all 4 fingers moving across the fingerboard." So, I tried "dropping" my palm so it's not "pointed up" so much, like...

It seems a lot of those finger independence exercises want you to keep those fingers down, though - or at least in contact with the strings. But I agree it seems unnecessary for playing, unless you're about to repeat the same phrase or something. When I play lower notes I rarely have more than...

Thanks for the help guys. Mushroo- My strings are a bit high but I can't lower them without getting a buzz all over the fretboard on the E and A strings. Maybe my neck is too straight? It sounds like the buzzing comes from fret 24 though. Good tip on the palm, I can definitely avoid it bunching...

Hi everybody, I'm new here. Started playing about 2 years ago and am really trying to work on my technique. First, my left thumb never knows where to go. I follow Adam Neely's video and slant it towards the neck when playing in the lower frets, but even so, it feels like my thumb is...