This is me jamming:
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This is how I hold my pick most of the time:
With strumming on an acoustic the pick is touching both my middle and index… its hard to explain. Pick up some Dunlop Tortex picks if you have sweaty hands, the grip on them is good even with sweat. ULTEX and ULTEX JAZZ III dunlop picks are my favorite and even with moderate sweating they don’t seem to fall out of my hands. Stay away from nylon picks!
You need to mute your strings with your palm. Basically when you’re doing a solo you want to mute all 3 bass strings almost all of the time and when you’re playing the treb strings you’re going to mute each string you are not playing on. Especially with high gain you will need to keep things quiet. Lots of palm muting.
Sick guitar man, I’ll probably take a picture of mine, it’s a MIM Strat, black pickguard loaded with Area Dimarzio’s and gloss black body. ^^
That’s how I hold my pick,so I guess it’s my pick, should invest in those tortex ones, thanks.
Okay, gotcha, I’ll work on that tomorrow, using my fingers to mute the treble strings really slows my playing down, although I was developing the technique for it, I’ll see how easy it is to palm mute.
i have been playing for about close to 5 years now. i started playing guitar but switched over to bass. My first guitar was a Fender Squire and taught myself. then i got a Jackson Dinky with EMGz. then i eventually switched to bass for fun and i liked playing it alot better. so i got a Fender P bass with EMGz on it.
Does anyone for the life of them know of any DECENT slap/pop instructional video anywhere on the net? I can pop just fine. My slapping, however, is retarted. Half the times the sound doesn’t come out, and I can’t slap hard enough, and I hit other strings. Its sooo frustrating.
RHCP-Cant Stop is the reason Im now learning this play technique.
Flea slaps on that song? I didn’t think so. The easiest place to slap is to hold A on the E string, if you want to practice. It’s all in the wrist, really. I strike with the side of the knuckle on my thumb, and retract quickly. If you want to get it crisp and clear, I’ll pull off with my fretting hand.
I’ve been playing bass for a good bit now, and outside of messing around on a funk jam, I really don’t see any good application for the technique, but everything you can do to improve helps.
I should post videos of my slap technique. As of lately, I’ve adopted the Victor Wooten style (double/quadruple) thumping, but I can also use my wrist more aka Louis Johnson/Marcus Miller.
Really the best thing to do KO_Perfect is to let most of the power come from your wrist in a rotating toward the strings motion- not your forearm. Relax, and strike the string you want to play. Remember, you might run into a problem where you have issues striking the strings independent of one another or muting the other strings because of your accuracy. The best type of practice to improve your accuracy in my opinion is slapping the major/minor scale patterns using your thumb only. Then as you improve, try alternating your thumb/index for each note.
I’ve been playing bass now about 18 years, and that’s how I started improving my accuracy.
Looking at picking up one of these next month along with a Vox AC4TV head+cab. Since I’m finally moving into a house I’m putting my large amp into the basement and would like to have something small for bedroom practice.
I’ve been wanting a LP in that color for the longest time but don’t want to shell out 3K+ for a Gibson. From what I’ve heard Agile is absolutely amazing for the price (and it seems to be so from specs/sound clips I’ve heard). Anyone on here have one or played one?
I know this is a rather n00bish question, but I finally got an amp after how many years of not having one to complement my electric. . .so what’s the difference between an effects pedal (like here), and a multi-effects pedal (like here)? A single pedal’s over $100, and the multi effects one is only $80?
Basically, I’m wondering why it’s (apparently) worth the premium to spend more on traditional effects pedals when the multi-effects one does the same thing, and is cheaper to boot.
I have no idea about different prices, but that was one of the reasons I bought a line 6 head that came with all the effects so I wouldn’t have to find out the hard way.
The quality and customization of the effects are better on the single effects pedals. Digitech’s RP series isn’t that great. I like the delay that comes on it, but the rest is pretty subpar compared to a POD 2.0 or something similar.
Hrm, I see. Thanks for the answer. I personally don’t see how the sound quality on a single effects pedal could come out to be worth $70 more, but it does make sense that single effects pedals would have better sound and customization features.
People also like the status of having the real deal, rather than a simulation.
It’s worth mentioning that there are plenty of multi-effects pedals priced for hundreds of dollars that, more or less, achieve the same stuff as the single pedal counterparts. That’s keeping in mind that the degrees of accuracy will be different, depending on the specific feature.
I’m definitely bigger on having single effects pedals as opposed to a multi-effects unit. Way more flexibility. However, I will say that I have owned several multi-effects units that I have been happy with, namely the BOSS GT-6.
My current rig: 50-watt single-channel Ampeg head, Marshall 1960A 4x12 slant cab. BOSS delay and distortion pedals. Like a true dickhead, I sold my Les Paul during rough times. Looking to replace it with an Ibanez Artist.
I’m not usually one for effects but I’ve been looking at getting an MXR Blue Box. I’ve been trying to get a tone that sounds like the keyboard solo in Daft Punk’s “Digital Love”.
Another interesting pedal I saw was the “Legend Of Fuzz”. Although I think the Blue Box get’s that 8-bit tone better.
