Any Fingerstyle Punk Players

[ilovethesechord]

I think he's a great bassist. Was lucky to go to school in gainesville while they were still there. Saw them 4 or 5 times in the late 90s

+1 on Jason Black.

Some of his lines on Fuel For the Hate Game blow my mind.

 

[deadhead]

Yea, you're right, it is a piccolo bass, NOT really an example of bass technique. Those strings are much thinner and much more like a guitar in terms of playing feel.

 

[mizmor]

Matt Freeman of Rancid uses his fingers as well on some songs.....

 

[garmenteros]

One band: A Wilhelm Scream. That guy plays fingerstyle and he just leaves me in awe everytime i hear him play. Listen to the horse of the album career suicide and you see what i mean.

I play fingerstyle only. Never liked picks and the clunk sound they make. Its hard to get used to playing fast muted lines with your fingers but once you learn how to fly it feels really great to do so. Practice is all it takes.

 

[GLEN18INCHSPICA]

Exactly. I play in a punk cover band, Dead Boys, Pistols, Ramones, Stooges, Plasmatics, Devo etc., whenever I play with a pick I miss the full impact of my fingers and find the tone of the bass gets buried a bit by the rest of the band. I can get away with a pick on the Ramones songs but it still sounds fuller with my fingers. I've always been a finger player and I love some pick style bass players, but I can play quicker and cleaner over the fretboard with my fingers. I dont really care about emulating the players tone on these songs whether its pick or fingers, I just try to remain faithful to the style or groove of the lines and make it sound as tight and full as possible with my two hands.

 

[MutronIII]

jerry only of the misfits
QUOTE]

Unless he's changed it up in the last ten years or so, Jerry's always played with picks. All the classic Misfits stuff was without a doubt a rick and a pick (with Acoustic 270 guitar heads, on the fuzz channel).

I second Karl Alvarez as the epitome of a monster fingerstyle punk player.

 

[calebbarton]

I think he means to say:
"There is a plethora of posters on this fine forum that enjoy playing their electric basses with their fingers as opposed to a plectrum, and they claim that should they ever find themselves in a musical ensemble which is of the 'punk' tradition, they can emulate the sound of a plectrum with their digits. In fact, they are so certain of this ability that you will not spy a plectrum between their digits! However, I have yet to see or hear irrefutable proof of this claim."

wow thats really well written. do you want to rewrite the whole post too?

 

[dponbass]

I was under the same assumption that most punk players used picks. I started off with a pick in punk bands but moved to fingers when I started getting better and found I liked how it sounded rounder. I still like the cut of using a pick. I couldn't imagine Matt Freeman using his fingers on some of my favorite Rancid tracks. I'm sure he did both, but most of the time I would assume he used a pick to get that great cut he had on "Out Come the Wolves". That being said, I'm in a top 40 cover band now covering Lady Gaga so that wipes away any crediblity I've ever had.

 

[countrybassist]

I'm play in a horror punk band and play about 50% of our songs fingerstyle.

Horror Punk! Sounds cool!

 

[trunkshope6]

i play with fingers in a nofx influenced band (fast) and id say u should try to imitate the galloping sound of the bass drum when their using the single double beat

 

[Surly]

Do whatever works for you. Pick or fingers, just rock out.

 

[drmckool]

i Used to play in a punk band and i played finger style the entire time. it requires alot of endurance to play that fast with your fingers for that long straight but ya, i did it.

 

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[Gobatto]

In the end, it's just a matter of the tone you want to get.
A pick will sound different from fingers, and "emulating" pickstyle with fingers will sound different from both.
I've heard the heavy metal bassist Markus Grosskopf, in an interview, said that, even though he prefers fingers, he uses the pick to get a desired tone.