kroogie

Use a light touch in the left hand and attack in your right hand(by the bridge), and bridge pickup only...

Great, I will be posting new lessons soon!

This works for me because when you use the open A you can rake down and move your hand up one position to get to the notes starting at the fifth fret on the D string: --------------------------5-7-8-9------------ ---------------3---5-6-7-----------9-7-9-0-0 -------3-5-3---0----------------------------- 1-4-5-----------------------------------------

Hi, I´m a professional bass player from Norway that have started to record videos for bass players wanting to develop their skills in improvising. I´l also post clips where I show how to play som of Jaco`s favourite grooves, some bebop tunes and how to use different scales and arpeggios. Check it out... Not a whole a lot of talking but I think you´ll understand anyway...:-) ...Here is a typical Jaco groove with a little improv in the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEMr6qC_Tec

Hi! In my experience it might be that your strings is too close to the pickups, so that the preamp get to much signal, creating distortion. The fact that you don`t get any distortion in passive mode supports this! Kroogie

I`ve owned a lot of high-end basses like: Modulus, Fodera, Ibanez GWB, Warwick.... but I always come back to Fender. The sound of a passive Fender Jazzbass is more usable in most settings, in contrary to the basses metioned. The best thing with a good fender is that: What you put in you get out!! Sound is shaped with your fingers, and in my opinion Fenders are much more dynamic than most of the active basses I`ve owned. Hot preamps, kills the dynamics!! If you like dynamics-buy a Fender, if you like zzziiing- buy an high end bass!

My basses through the times: Hofner - Old bass I found in the closet! Belonged to my father, got me on to playing! Warwick Nobby Meidel- Headless, never practised so much on a instrument as on this one. Fender Presicion Fretless( Without the presicion pickup, drilled a hole near the bridge, and placed an active EMG jazz pickup there, sounded great!) Carvin 5 string- Don`t remember witch model. Warwick Fortress 5 Modulus jazz fretless, another great fretless, miss this one! Yamaha TRB6: Fusion dot com ;-) Fender Marcus Miller model. Ibanez GWB 5 string fretless: O my god what a sound, too bad I didn`t have the time to practise this one enough:-( Fender Jazz bass 64 Custom Shop Relic- This is my main bass, really happy with this one! Fodera NYC Empire QMT maple neck: Great bass, but I`m a rosewood guy! On order: Fender Victor Bailey 5 string