plucking

I've been playing bass for a little bit over a year and I've noticed that my plucking looks off. When I pluck with my middle and index fingers,...

and it’s not the good kind either. i hadn’t noticed it until maybe a few weeks ago, but whenever i pluck a string with my middle finger, where the...

Great name for a band, but for a bass player with no feeling at the end of his index finger (plucking hand), no so much. The damage occurred...

On Sept 28, I injured my right index finger and accompanying knuckle. This is my plucking hand. I heard something pop down in the knuckle, and...

Does anybody else have a bassist they really appreciate who plucks with their thumb? I don't mean the guys that use their thumb to pluck as one...

Tony has such a fluent right hand. he uses a kind of floating thumb. what's unique is that he doesn't rest the plucking finger on the next lower...

Is it me but could it be that plucking with the thumb gives the overall playing a more consistent tone and even a tighter tempo than when using...

Hi! I'm hoping someone here can help me with an issue I'm having with plucking: When playing fingerstyle, my middle finger tends to drive the...

I've been playing for about 4 1/2 months already (loving it) and I've been using my middle and index fingers since I've started. But I want to get...

Hi. I recently started playing electric bass, and the problem is, my plucking fingers are sore after short 1 hr rehearsals with my school's jazz...

Recently, my school started a Jazz Band. Wanting to learn a new instrument I stepped up to play bass guitar. After a few days of practice, my band...

Hello! I'm in this position where I've been considering my plucking position and the effect it has on tone. Basically, I have this old Greco...

Alright, so I started playing bass a just a while ago, after coming from ukulele. I tried to find someone else who asked a similar question to...

I was just wondering what happens electically or magnetically when one plucks too hard and blast the pickup into farting.

with friends like this who needs to practice? [MEDIA]

I eventually want to become a very good bass player. So far I've gotten by because I can play acoustic and electric guitar fairly well and used to...

I have a new (to me) USA Jazz bass. I consider myself an intermediate-plus player. For years I played a slightly high action on a Precision...

So as of recently i have started to move away from Pick technique and into plucking again I have been looking to play more older metallica bass...

I stumbled across this on the internets. It's a fake finger with an acrylic nail so you can play fingerstyle without having to use your real...

I'm fairly new to bass (but long time musician on other instruments) and I've been practicing quite a bit and really loving bass. I see some...

This is how my right hand plays at the moment. Sorry for the slightly rubbish example; I needed to hold the camera with my left hand to get the...

Hi everybody. I've asked stupid questions here a few times already and now doing it once again. Having struggled so much, watched lots of videos...

No matter how hard I try I cant avoid playing with one finger (my index) its hurting my ability to feel the funk Anyone have some cool excerices...

I saw a video of someone plucking their bass with three fingers instead of the typical two. After seeing it I thought to myself, "That seems like...

I have a couple questions about right (plucking) hand technique. The first one is this: when I'm playing an ascending scale or line, I'll pluck...

My right hand technique is an odd case. I've got a 90 degree hitchhiker's thumb, the last joints in my right hand collapse (I have tried a more...

The recent thread about the original placement of old P Bass tug bars/thumb rests got me thinking about a couple of things. Most folks were saying...

So I've been obsessed with Vulfpeck's "Dean Town" for a couple of weeks now and have been trying to learn to play it, but I can't sustain the...

So... I'm trying to increase my right hand plucking speed. I've been using a pick more lately, and realize that my left hand is MUCH MUCH faster...

Attempting a big acoustic sound - got a CCB, Spirocore mittels, 8-10 mm action and right hand anchored at the end of the finger board. Got a super...

So...I've been a guitarist for over 2 decades now, but I recently dove head first heavily into bass. My main focus/love is slap bass (i.e.: Les...

I'm pretty comfortable using my index and middle finger, but have begun practicing incorporating my third ring finger into the mix for major scale...

Not referring to "normal" playing. When I pluck a string from below in slap bass, my hand moves away from the strings as one would expect, but...

So, I'm very amateur with the slap and pluck/pop stuff. I've realized that when I pluck/pop the string (say.. open G string, for example), that...

I was a very disciplined guitar student and my wonderful teacher had my on a strict regimen of Paul Gilbert style alternate picking. I grew up...

Errr, typo in the thread title, think it got autocorrected ;) Hey I've been playing bass for a while and recently started to focus on my right...

So I been playing for probably 13 years. And just discovered this. Sounds just like or as close to an upright bass as an electric could sound,...

I've always had issues plucking the E-string with my fingers because there is no string below it to catch my fingers. It takes longer for my...

After practicing a lot, yesterday we entered to record at a pro local studio. Talking to the engineer I shared my experience of plucking with one...

Hello! I have a 2012 MIA fender jazz bass that has some kind of rattle on the E and A string when I pluck by bridge pick-up. There seems to be...