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Rjb
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Please use your fingers! Pick playing is so limited. As for your argument about the music being more defined with a pick - not in my experience. Try upping the mids on your amp and practising fast alternating patterns with your first two fingers. As you actually mute the string with each stroke, you'll get a tight focussed sound.
It'll take some practise, but I promise it'll be worth it |
Dan
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I find myself asking that very same question quite often. Let's face it, bass players look cooler playing with their fingers. Most great players use fingers. But I find, as a former guitar player, I'm much more proficient when using a pick. There's a certain speed and clarity only a pick can attain. On the other hand, sometimes you need to fatten up the sound with the fingers. Anyway, I still do both, but ask yourself which method makes you sound better. If you clearly play better with one method, go with it and to hell with the image |
Peter V Rawlings
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Patrick is probably right. I just can't think of a time when a "pick sound" desireable :-)
You can adapt a two-fingered style to give very 'plucky' results, chiefly by striking the strings close to the bridge with a very high wrist angle. If you lower the wrist and play with the pads of your fingers (or slightly on the inside edge of each finger) - nearer the neck end of the pick guard - you will get the most mellow tones. Using a twin pick-up bass design will further enhance the tone range possibilities, but a great deal can be achieved with the hand - and I wouldn't sniff at a Precision (single pick-up), even if preference is a Jazz (twin pick-up). |
Jake
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I've played with both my fingers and pick on bass. Finger-picking gives it that natural bass sound, but the pick makes the music much more defined. Any thoughts on what i should usually use? |
M.J.C
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Dan is the Man - well almost, the others can be ignored. Fingers when neccessary, pick when neccessary, hitting it with a dead squirrel when needs be! No offence but its a bit obvious really! |
Jjbraunius
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The better bassist use fingers |
Brian
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I would have to say use your fingers if at all possible. If you're concerned about getting the right tone, get it from your gear. . . not with a pick. I'm a BIT grad and I've been playing bass for 19yrs. I used to play with a pick when I first picked up the instrument, because I couldn't play fast licks using my fingers. Now I find that playing with my fingers enables me to do all the things pick-bassists can, and a few things they can't. It all comes down to getting a desireable tone. If you're using a pick to achieve punchiness, you're doing it at the expense of all the rich mids and lows your bass is designed to produce. If you set your sound right, playing with your fingers will give you a plucky, bouncy tone that's still warm and round. You don't want to stack your sound with highs and mids, or you'll be fighting with the guitars to be heard. When you combine that bouncy tone with a band, what you hear from the bass is a clear, warm tone that magically cuts through and still shakes the foundation |
Chunks45
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Yeah |
Dmart
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I only play with a pick when I have a pick in my hand. I think the style of music plays a major role in the decision between pick or fingers. Its important to be a versatile player and know how to switch between the two |
Josh
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I only use picks on punk and stuff that sounds better with a pick than fingers normally fingers sound better and they are louder than picks the only problem with fingers is sometimes they make the string hit the fret board and click but other than that fingers rule!!!!!!!! |
Krazycowboy
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I've played guitar for over two years, but bass for only a few months. I recomend picks for punk rock like, Greenday, and Blink 182, because they require a defined sound that fingers sometimes dont give. I also use a pick when playing metallica, because many licks are much to fast for my fingers(yes, I use two). Fingers are great for a a subtle, natural tone and when playing slower songs I use fingers, because fingers do sound better for most songs(in my opinion). There is nothing wrong with doing either. My friend who also plays bass naggs me for using a pick sometimes, but he's never played guitar. Using a pick for bass is something guitar players turned bass players will commenly do, and nothing is wrong with that |
Antwan
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Fingers to me seems to be alot easier than pick but I do use a pick to get certain sounds |
Phil
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Both have their merits and problems. With fingers you have to practice more to get the steady punch you can get from a pick. But could you imagine Victor Wooten using a pick(one of the premier bassists in the world). You can be just as fast and punchy if you set your sound right on your gear. Fingers require callouses and when starting out on the bass will be very painful, even more so than on a guitar, due to the size of the strings you are playing on. But I believe that you can attain more useful sounds with your fingers no matter what style you are playing. So I have to go with fingers over the more limited pick. Good luck and let the music live! |
Ray
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I use a pick mainly because I have volume-control problems , since im playing a righty bass but im left handed. when/if I get a lefty bass , I'll most likely use my fingers. |
Patrick
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use pick only when you are looking for that desired pick sound =) |
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