When I'm playing finger style I usually plug away with my index and middle fingers. But on simpler songs where I'm just chugging out eighths I find myself just using one finger because of the more even tone I get. Is there anything wrong with this? -Bernard.
There's nothing inherently wrong with it, I often groove with one finger for the sake of feeling the music in a certain way. That said, if you do spend a good amount of time using index and middle, it would be greatly to your benefit to work on getting the two to be as even as you possibly can. This is something that you should always strive for and not settle for anything less.
Yeah I agree; but with my recent aquisitions of an acoustic guitar and keyboard, plus with exams looming, I have less time just to sit down with my bass. But yeah it's definately on my 'to learn/perfect list' (with another billion things )
Raking can be done with any finger that plucks; I think what the original poster means is that he's using his index finger alone - without alternation - even when he's not moving down a string. For example, he would play 4 bars of the open A string by only using his right index finger to pluck. It's also possible to use the same finger to pluck when moving down a string without using the raking technique.
