It’s back from the dead! The TB Mega Thread.

[ShaunNecro]

I'm fluent in pick, finger, thumb, slap and pop!

My guitarist is always trying to make me play with just a thumb because that's how they did it in the 50s and 60s... It's not because it sounds any differently, it's just because they did it like that and he doesn't care for better technique or anything.

I didn't really start playing with my fingers until last year, but now it's my preferred playing style.

[bigchiefbc]

I only play fingers.

So only play fingers. You'll get better.

OR YOU WILL PERISH.

This is me now. Used to play with a pick all the time, and got tired of it. I can play just as fast with my fingers now through lots of practice. I will also strum, flick or play harmonics with my fingers. Fuck picks

Hey whatever floats your boat. The pick is the only way that I'm a passably useful bassist. I've spent literally hundreds of hours trying to play with my fingers and I just suck. Same with slap and pop. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but I really wish I had those hours of my life back.

[behndy]

http://ilovefuzz.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=36186

FUCK EVERYBODY RIGHT NOW.

[SmallEQ]

Hey Behndy, spent the night in Richmond last night before heading out to Berkeley for work stuff today. I think I felt your presence.

eeeeee careful. parts of Richmond are NO JOKE.

what're you out here for?

All's well. Just spent the night at a hotel for a meeting with a potential customer. Now sitting safely at SFO waiting to fly home.

yay! ou survivededed!! WOOOOO!!

silly butts. should have hit me up. grabbed dinner or mashed some pedals against each other or something.

but velcro side out. don't want to be gay or anything.

Normally I'd have been all up inya, but it was one of those things where I get in late with overseas colleagues and then we had a morning meeting, so no time for funsees. I did get one of my colleagues to buy a sweet minty used MIA start in Phoenix to take home though.

[behndy]

lol. nice.

PUSHER.

[Waterpilot]

I started out with my fingers, can still use them ok, but pretty much exclusively use a pick now.

[futuresailors]

I started out with my fingers, can still use them ok, but pretty much exclusively use a pick now.

TWSS

[Haki]

For somebody that started on guitar and couldn't fingerpick to save his life I'm terrible with a pick on bass and use fingers only.

[tuffteef]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ9WLBOTXNE[/youtube]


MMMM TAPEWOUNDS...

tad late to this partay

[behndy]

ew. that sounds like someone fucking Madonna with a huge bag of soft spaghetti.

nooooooo thank you.

[Mudfuzz]

ew. that sounds like someone fucking Madonna with a huge bag of soft spaghetti.

nooooooo thank you.

I thought you'b be all up for the idea of roundwound strings covered in electrical tape though.

[Mudfuzz]

I tryed the Labella ones once.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZHwxIL9oYo[/youtube]

Then a friend got the Rotosound ones for their bass once

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZHwxIL9oYo[/youtube]

If they sounded more rubbery I'd like them but they just sound bad.

[behndy]

guh.

i mean, yeah. nipples with the electrical tape x's? YESH PLEASE.

but that sounds AWFUL.

fucking fretlesses.

[Mudfuzz]

fucking fretlesses.

you not like fretless?

[bigchiefbc]

That sounded like someone playing through a wet paper bag. Sounded really dead and lifeless. Not my thing.