technique-help

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    Double Bass Restoring hand endurance and preventing hand injuries.

    Greetings. In the recent days I have noticed that endurance of both of my hands, left hand especially, decreased. After 1-2 minutes of playing I have to take a break for a few minutes for my hands to recover. I suspect that this happened because a little over a week ago I increased my practice...
  2. Y

    Artificial Harmonics with Neck pup Ashtray on

    So, I have an Jazz bass with an ashtray on the neck pickup. Does the ashtray prevent me from reaching all the artificial harmonics, and if so, which ones? Thank you!
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    Popping D: middle/ring knuckles rest on G string

    Hi, My popping technique has gotten to a point where I can get my index finger in and out through the D string without it touching any other strings, but my middle and ring finger knuckles tend to rest/touch on the G string while popping the D. I haven't been able to notice any clicks or...
  4. lostintime

    How can i get better?

    Hello I was a mid-level bass player that due to some unfortunate circumstances haven t played so much lately.It seems like I have "lost my way" I dont know what to study ,from where to study(youtube?other tutorials?)and in general I son t know how to continue.I want to mention that I used to...
  5. Spare Part

    Buzzing Noise

    Hi all, I'm new here. (Sorry if this isn't categorised right.) I started playing bass a couple of months ago and very quickly ran into an issue which (irritatingly but probably unsurprisingly) I haven't been able to fix. When I fret notes close to the headstock/top of neck, the string will...
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    Double Bass Slapping Pains (literal)

    I guess the core of my quesion is: what muscles do you use to "drive" the slap sound? I ask as a newer player to DB, and newer yet to slap. After playing EBG for decades, I took the plunge and added DB to my playing about a year ago. While loving the tone and voice of the "Big Bass" playing...
  7. RoccoBass04

    How to Double slap faster (not double thumb)

    I've been working on a fast triplet ghost note lick which has a double slap every time the lick repeats and I find that the double slap is holding me back from getting it up to speed but I don't know how to double slap faster apart from note bouncing off the string much and I find that some days...