Part 1: Four and Three Finger Plucking Exercises For Bass

By request, a quick tutorial on how to begin intergrating your thumb and ring finger into your bass guitar plucking technique. Use of a playing ramp and metronome is discussed as well.

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[kyle892]

yo usaid low e, do you playin standard guitar tuning or just do a drop e? and quick question, when using a drop tuning, when you play a scale, is it played the same way, or do you have to adjust? just askin because im not 100% sure

[bryanrtyler]

@kyle892 E is the standard tuning- you don't drop to it. The only way a scale wouldn't change when playing in a dropped tuning was if all of the strings were dropped to the same degree (ie all strings dropped a full step, etc.).

[kyle892]

@bryanrtyler thanks man, video really helped. and i was thinkin you dropped your B to E for some reason lol. i realized when i read the comment you meant your actual E string

[bryanrtyler]

@kyle892 Ah- dropping a B to an E would certainly sound....unique :D

[jenkist08]

Good vid, but your finger board looks wierd... was that a four srting before?

[bryanrtyler]

Nope- it's just a wenge fretboard that has some natural blonde coloring on one side. I loved the way it looked.

[gvickerschtick]

Gorgeous bass!

[RCPJAP]

Thank you for your very thoughtful, articulate description of how to pluck with more than two fingers. I will incorporate this into my playing, however I know it will be difficult at first. I learned a lot from you-I appreciate it!

[uselessxdave]

This helped me alot man, I knew how to play bass before, but not technical like, thanks man

[bryanrtyler]

No- it's an Elrick singlecut bass.