hey i use four fingers on my right hand p-i to do lightning fast 16th notes at speeds well over 250 bpm. duno if anybody else has tried this technique or not, looking for feedback. soundcloud.com/mothsband thats my band we just finished our recroding, let me know what you think about the bass tone and style.
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four finger right hand technique
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I used four fingers to pick a few times when I was a teenager, didn't sound very good, wasn't really practical for anything, got blisters on my pinky, stopped doing it.
I have used 3 fingers ever since but I don't do it in any kind of sensible way - it's not some superior picking 'system' I've got, just doing it wrong in a way that nobody else seems to do it wrong.
I have used 3 fingers ever since but I don't do it in any kind of sensible way - it's not some superior picking 'system' I've got, just doing it wrong in a way that nobody else seems to do it wrong.
I thought about trying this, but never really did. I mostly have no use for 3 fingers at all... and I play the same speeds you did in that soundcloud-recording. I can do this with 2 fingers or with a pick. The problem is: You're sound gets lost in the mix. Sometimes it's better to play less notes.
It's a good technique..... for banjo
Seriously, haven't tried it or seen a need for it yet. I find that about 50% of the time I use one finger and the other 50% of the time I use the other finger. So that's pretty much 2 fingers when I play, but I don't play half as many notes as you do so maybe that's why.
Seriously, haven't tried it or seen a need for it yet. I find that about 50% of the time I use one finger and the other 50% of the time I use the other finger. So that's pretty much 2 fingers when I play, but I don't play half as many notes as you do so maybe that's why.
You should look for Hadrien Feraud and his mentor Dominic Di Piazza. They are both from France and have a 4 fingers picking technic. They use it in a jazz context.
As for the music, to me it sound like the new wave of metal that try to be brutal and technical but it miss something. Alse I didn't hear the bass that much and I don't see how it is fast to the point of needing 4 fingers
As for the music, to me it sound like the new wave of metal that try to be brutal and technical but it miss something. Alse I didn't hear the bass that much and I don't see how it is fast to the point of needing 4 fingers
The bass tone is inaudible to me, or at least I can't separate it from the kick and guitar.
I'd love to hear the solo bass track... Any possibility of putting that up?
I'm not a metal player, and I always wonder what fast metal players are actually doing, since I can't pick them out in the mix. So no joke, I'd really like to hear the soloed bass track.
Oh and the music is not my style, but it seems well done for what it is. I like some of the cymbal work in the drums.
I'd love to hear the solo bass track... Any possibility of putting that up?
I'm not a metal player, and I always wonder what fast metal players are actually doing, since I can't pick them out in the mix. So no joke, I'd really like to hear the soloed bass track.
Oh and the music is not my style, but it seems well done for what it is. I like some of the cymbal work in the drums.
ariba by woaheasylang on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free <--- heres my try on it haha
16th notes at 250 bpm? You realize that's 1000 notes a minute? 16.7 notes a second. Yeah, I bet you do.
This guy does exactly that. Of course, he's quite renound for it, and YMMV when it comes to whether or not it sounds like anything worth doing (I tend to think it sounds like garbage, but at least it's consistent and as close to clean as it will ever sound.)
250BPM finger picking - bass - YouTube
yeah, when it gets to a certain speed, you might as well be playing whole notes cause thats what its gonna sound like, ime.
