I've been playing bass for 30 years...with a pick. I can slap rudimentarily, and fingerstyle alittle. I've been without a bass for 3 years, and am about to aquire one. I've made a vow that I will NOT use a pick, and really concentrate on my right hand technique...but man its humbling to realize how horrible I am...
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I'm awful w my right hand....
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PS, I guess you could say "my" style is a mix of Phil Lesh and Entwistle in terms of my picking technique and musical style. But man, after 30 years, and there's still SO MUCH TO LEARN!!!
aahh grasshopper, it's the trip that makes life exciting, not the destination!.......and so we practice......
Victor Wooten once told my dad that all you need to worry about is using your fingers in a "1-2-1-2-1-2" method. Sort of like walking, but without the feet.....
I used a pick when I started and for 3 years I used a pick. I swore to not use a pick unless absolutly nessesary and for the past year ive done well with my fingers. So just practice! Make sure your technique is good though. Mine wasent good and I deveoped carpal tunnel in both my hands.
Personally, I use my fingers, and until recently always have, but after seeing some Youtube videos of Carles Benavent I have been experimenting with a pick.
I was a finger snob for something like twenty years, but now I realize taint nothing wrong with a pick.
I guess my advice on the subject is, don't limit yourself.
I was a finger snob for something like twenty years, but now I realize taint nothing wrong with a pick.
I guess my advice on the subject is, don't limit yourself.
Just keep at it, and you'll start to see dividends. It is brutally slow at first. I advise against using the thumb as an anchor, but that's just me. The 'floating' right hand comes in handy when switching instruments also -
From the begining, I had a problem with (for my opinion) my slow fingers (1-2). I spent couple of years playing classic guitar and stopped when I reach flamenco technic... I could not make it...
Just about last fall, I have read some Link Removed in which was explained how some genetic groups have SLOW muscles.
Guess what? I am in one of those groups! I tried everything to gain the speed. It just does not work. So, I gave up and keep playing just the blues... BeBoop seems to be for me (ethernal 1/4 notes...
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Just about last fall, I have read some Link Removed in which was explained how some genetic groups have SLOW muscles.
Guess what? I am in one of those groups! I tried everything to gain the speed. It just does not work. So, I gave up and keep playing just the blues... BeBoop seems to be for me (ethernal 1/4 notes...
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