Many bass players have about the wrong and right way to play the bass guitar to speak, what, how do we play? What sounds we come, and it is customary to play bass with a pick or plectrum?
Different people have many answers to this. Yes, there is rite and wrong ways to play the bass, but however there is nothing wrong with playing bass with a pick, there is nothing wrong with finger plays bass and slapped on your favorite bass grooves.
Pick-and-LearnFinger-style, to a great bass player you should play both! However, there is nothing wrong to play how you want to play bass, you get your sound and enjoy the style and technique, which is for you. Playing with a hoe is what I and a style I've enjoyed myself worked hard.
My article focuses on the pick players who play list-style bass! I myself am a pick-style bass player, I love the game with a pick-up, love the sounds I can make dance and the great part, the people andenjoy the music! If you are a player in its infancy, a player who wants more than the collection or a player who never know looking at the list, looking at the side of the pick-style, the players, part of the story, how to play and Things I have learned, in this style .... from many styles on the bass Pick the player!
Not to go, but some brief history here. If the first Fender bass, there was made to be heard, to be made, not easy to transport large as the double bass,be made made electric and one thing to play just for guitarists, so they could double to play bass as well as further work.
The electric bass was played with the thumb to start with, was the guitarist and began to use her heels on the bass!
This started to become, a technique with the bass player in the studios. The attack was heard on the selection list, it has not lost and also with the studio equipment and sound was working at that time. It was avery precise sound, with a high-end and a good cut with sound. Session bassist Carol Kaye raised the Fender bass, a bass player turn if not for a meeting. She put her guitar and took on the Fender bass. From then on, she made music history. Suppose you hear hits by the Beach Boys to the Doors and the original Mission Impossible theme tune.
Carol developed the wrist flat pick technique and the deep sound with the click. She has taught and published numerous bookson this issue. For me, Carol an influence on the way to pick up is to play. For me this was the beginning of the play overall, there are other players who played with a pick on major hit records and also helped to shape this way of playing.
So, what sounds can you get? Play with a pick, you can create a series of tones, depending on getting as you play your amp and bass, and the way! It's playing with a pick and not sloppy, you can get some great, deep tones, tones with a single click, or whenWould you like a triple sound.
Even if you are on the bass with the list game comes into play.
Playing in the vicinity of the neck you get a deeper sound, play near the bridge, you will receive a further heights. Work and experimentation takes place in various parts around the bass's Pick Ups, to get different sounds.
Picks are for punks and heavy metal players with bracelets! I hear all the time! Not really, you can play a pick-to-any kind of music, a groove for each song, if you want played andalso practiced.
If I have access to or from work I'm doing a show in the north of England. After the show, someone came and said: "I was amazed to see you played with a plectrum, the sounds before the door was so deep and broad, but, like the fingers". When doing a recording session, I have to pick a route, which I was asked to play very bright with a hoe, the other deep-sounding title with a hoe and a very slow acoustic number with their fingers .... that part of the job and knowledgeTheir chops ...
Working with the pickup. Good performance and pick technique is what is needed to the sounds and experience the feeling. A pick-up is very percussive, where you go to the rhythm of the wrist, if you can not play a note, hold, mute light is a good feeling and sound tight! Keep your wrist flat and keep it on the body of the bass as you are hugging the bass! Use your wrist and do not move the whole arm ....
As alternative fingering with his fingers, it istrivialize important, too - is picking up.
Down-up-down-up-down-up .... This makes your picking clean and constant witch is very important. DOWN collection goes on the floor, Pick UP comes to you. I have some players who use only downward picking, great views, if you use below, and Jason Newstead picking on slower more ballad type songs. Practice is the key to picking your strong and a good feeling. Mute the left hand on the stitches removed, and only play with the pick different rhythms,stirs up and down. I still do this every day to keep on my pick-style.
Hold the pick-up is important to us! I have seen many players to keep the list in different ways. The way I think the short list is between the thumb, forefinger and middle finger. Now, some bass players play only with your thumb and forefinger. I think I have more grip and control with three fingers. There are also open and closed hand position. Open to the open hand, fingers closed and close the fingerslike a fist. I prefer the tight fist and hand, the selection list with three fingers. I feel better with the pick-up and attack. I feel better playing under control in this way. (See photo section). Not tense up your hand, keep it relaxed and in control.
Two types of picking picking are new, if you have a scratchy sound, while always the edge of the pick-and-ditch in the string property will get more and picking where you are on the string property. It depends on what sounds you want to go and what Songs you are working on. Practice really digging into the play tricks with light and shadows of heavy to lighter picking. It's all good learning the different ways to the removal and opens up more sounds and noises.
Another important part of the game with a pick and I learned this in the early days, choose to remain the same. To receive your own sound, the rite sound! If you use different picks, various gauges and weights of picks or just nick> Picks the guitarists, who are the tender, or the wrong size before a concert, it will not work.
I used to bring change constantly. The sound changed, some notes were too hard had no grip and I struggled.
I tried many different hoes and picks, gauges, thickness, until I found what worked for me! I put the same pick, same size, good grip and a level gauge. I find a 1mm pick TORTEX blue works well for me as I am not a serious pick-player, althoughEveryone is different see, so what works for you and feels good. Adhere to the same kind of pick!
Well, we have a brief insight into the game and Bass model with pimples and look at the bass pickup had style.
I hope it helps if you play bass with a pick, wanted to pick as a learning style, a different style with finger-style, more information about playing with a pick or just interested in bass guitar and the way played or wanted Just what Bass Pickplay.
Andy Till
