bass technique - thumb plucking - from playbassnow.com

Im practicing this kind of playing a lot these days. Could be described as Mark Knopfler, country pickin' kinda technique. Im using the thumb , index and middle fingers.
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[roscopeco2000]

hello marlowe so what are the advantages over a 3 finger techinque with this one?

[MarloweDK]

Do you have to choose?;-) Well this makes it easier to cover all strings - shifting between low and hi strings and of course playing chords with bass notes

[jono2690]

Cool technique marlowe! Pino Palladino uses this technique all the time. It's great for getting that 'double bass' feel especially on blues numbers.

do a search for;

john mayer - come when i call

You'll see Pino using this exact technique

[MarloweDK]

You're not thinking about the palm muting technique? Thats the most common, used a lot by Marcus

[zaksnaporaz]

I have seen a lot of this technique in Paul Westwood's 91 VHS called The Complete Bass Player - in case you're interested....

[MarloweDK]

I was inspired partly by Abe Laboriel, Damien Erskine, Albert Collins and country/blues finger pickers

[Romans10Verse9]

I would think with that name you would have a little more appreciation for good music and good bass playing. Don't give us Flea fans a bad name. Great playing, Marlowe! 5 stars!

[alanphil]

Wow! You almost stopped time with this one!

[Icc4rus]

i loved ur jam, u repeated the riff a lot and a great guitar could go in with it

[jono2690]

yes, he also mutes with his palm but, similar to this technique, he plays chords with his index and middle fingers while playing the notes with his thumb... awsome

[Beegees75]

Marlowe what do you think of the late maurice Gibb's bass playing skills? He was the one that played bass for the BeeGees.

[jzhobo77]

Thanks for showing all us bass player your wonderful technique. I would like to know what effects you use to get that lite growing sound,that extra bite. If you would expand on that please!!!

[turkishbassplayer]

its a very good technique

very good really its good lesson

for musicians good job

marlowe

[mvch0920]

are you playing octives and where does it start