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Technique, set-up, or both?

fretlessman71

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A student sent me the following Instagram short video:



Very cool groove, but my old-school sensibilities hate the fret buzz. Now it's certainly become a "thing" to do this, but I'm not quite sure how it's done. Low action? Light touch? Is that trill just a slide up and down a fret? How would you notate something like that in a transcription? Will I need to set up a bass special for this kind of thing? I play entirely with a pick and have medium-high action for this reason.
 
Very cool! I wonder if "shake" is just this guy's term for it, or if it's making it into global bass vernacular?

Not even bass vernacular - it's been in the 'official' books for some time.
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