Critique of One-finger-per-fret technique
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I like your "neutral position" video. But I don't agree with this one. Sure, it is a valid technique. You keep the bass a little bit too high, so for upper positions you don't have neutral position. You can play with a proper technique by moving your elbow a little bit, in the way you would do on upright, not keeping near your body. Just my two cents. Somehow you opened my eyes, that there is not only one proper way of playing with the left hand. Cheers, Flo
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guitar players use that 2. wrist postion all the time so dont be a pussy
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Heey! HELLO NEO! :D
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Exellent video! I also use 124 simandl fingering up until around the 7th fret or so. I figured this out on my own after suffering for years with tendon problems. The 'one finger per fret' rule is just plain bad advise, I don't care what anybody says. If I have to play something quick, I will open my hand and use one finger per fret, but only when I absolutely have to, and I NEVER hold that position. I have had zero tendon trouble since I changed my technique:)
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do you have any advice of strap length...and how you'd suggest finding a comfortable height to wear the instrument
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Hey, can you explain why you think that using the pads of the fingers work better than the tips?
When I started out I learned to use the tips from a Patitucci book, and I've found it to work, I find it awkward to use the pads, so I'm wondering what your view on it is.
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@havic5 Ahahahahaha! What a sad boy!
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wijze lul
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I strongly believe that everyone should play bass the way he feels.I make just a couple of comments:you may try to take your L.H. thumb more perpendicular to tne neck,instead of parallel,and on the space between 2nd e 3rd finger, to allows your hand to strech more.And also notice that Gary Willis palys OFPF with that kind of "extreme shape",apparently without difficulties (and on a 5 strings!)
Again,mine is just suggestion not a lesson or open criticism .Deepest respect for you and your music
sliverhandsonbasses 1 year ago
@sliverhandsonbasses Since I made this video, I've amended my ideas, and summed them up in my video "developing safe left hand technique." I got my ideas from Gary Willis, and he DEFINITELY does not have a perpendicular thumb on his left hand. It produces a dangerous angle. I've gotten hurt doing that, and I've seen a lot of my students and others get hurt playing with that angle. They might have been playing for years with no problem, but it always catches up. There IS a wrong way to play bass.
havic5 1 year ago
ok, that doesn't work in the lower positions just because you haven't practiced enough; that's perfectly normal.
marcosjoy 2 years ago
No offense, but I think I've spent enough hours in the shed to know what works and what doesn't.
havic5 2 years ago
If you'll notice, Havic is planting his fingers in one place to demonstrate how "dangerous" it is. That makes his whole demonstration null and void IMHO. Nobody plants their fingers and holds them in one spot, and you can easily manipulate your hands and wrists into any position you want to prove any point you want. I could just as easily manipulate a bass to make it look safe. If it wasn't safe, the big music schools wouldn't teach it. Sorry bro, you're well-intentioned, but wrong.
JMillerbigass 2 years ago
Again, I've said this before in other forums (literally), but I'm not exaggerating when I do this - its very easy to point to youtube videos of people playing this way and that is the way I am discouraging. More power to you if you do it with pivots (which I do all the time down there), but I completely disavow what I showed and I stick by what I'm saying in this video.
I I think we can both agree what I what I did in this video wasn't safe. Whether or not that's "OFPF" is semantics.
havic5 2 years ago