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I've been trying to learn slapping for the past month or so. I feel like the technique is pretty comfortable but I continue to have a problem with accuracy, my thumb just misses the string. I can tell it's improved but progress is so slow it's frustrating. I assume this is normal and I just need...

Can you all recommend any good beginner/intermediate song books? Something that has like "standards" that every bass player might be expected to know? I did get a couple of the Easy Pop Bass lines from Hal Leonard but they're a little frustrating because I've come to realize those are...

Can anyone point the way to some intermediate Christmas music for solo bass? I thought it would be fun to learn a couple Christmas songs. I have a very beginner book that just shows the melody but I was hoping to find something a little fancier. I also found a couple things on YouTube that are...

Do you have any tips for pull-offs? I can't seem to get any volume from them. If I try to hard to pluck it gets sloppy and if I don't it comes out really quiet. I haven't actually been working on it for long but it's frustrating when you try to play something and no sounds comes out.

I know very little of bass setup. Unless I play with a very light touch my strings tend to bang against last fret or two near the pickups. Not so much for open strings but starting on the third or fifth frets I have to play pretty lightly to avoid the strings banging. Is there an adjustment for...

I'm trying to go through the book "Building Walking Bass Lines" and am a little confused about something that's probably really basic but I don't think the book adequately explains. On the exercises where it gives the chords and only slashes on the staff, the first being a root notes exercise...

I'm going through a blues method book and one of the first things they describe is "laying down the root", where you mostly just play the root notes. I'm not too familiar with blues music and would like find some examples of songs where this is done. Can you suggest any? Thanks.

I've noticed that certain strings keep ringing even when I'm muting them, like harmonics and stuff, and I've been struggling to get it under control. Like, one problem area has been my E string. Even with my thumb on it, it still rings a bit. If I put a second finger on the string it stops...

I'm considering the above two amps. Do you have any thoughts to share on them or advice? Is there another one I should add to the list of candidates? Thanks.

Is anyone familiar with the basses from Mystic Guitars? Link Removed seems to be the only one listed online. I'm looking to upgrade from my Squire VM Jazz and stopped at their shop in Red Wing, MN. They had precision and jazz style basses. I looked at their lower end jazz bass and the higher...

I wasn't sure where to post this but decided to put it here because it might be just a technique thing. I seem to get strings ringing a lot while I'm trying to mute them. Like, I play a note then lift it off the fret and with my finger still touching the string it keeps on ringing. I understand...

Is there a way to get the details about my Squire Jazz bass? I can across a review Invalid Link Removed Squire Vintage Modified Jazz Bass and the picture on top looks exactly like mine. Except mine has "Duncan Designed" pickups which I guess were on "previous versions of the VM Jazz Bass" so I...

Hi everyone. This is my first post here and I hope I'm in the right place. I have a Fender Squire Jazz bass which seems fine for the most part but, starting about at the fifth fret, the E string has this kind of waving sound. It's like you play a note and it's in tune but it has a sound like...