[quote name='AttitudeCastle' timestamp='1323711761' post='1466126']
What kind of music are you playing?
I play with three fingers on my right hand but it just feels natural to me and more or less always has.
A great way to keep me solid i find, so i hope it helps you build it up from the ground, is to play along to really simple say indie or pop bass lines in 4/4 and slug away with the three fingers. DO NOT THINK ABOUT IT TOO MUCH JUST LET YOUR FINGERS MOVE and it will become second nature, i also accent the first of every 4 to pick it out though obviously only when that sounds better.
Try using your 2 fingers though, i emplore you! Speed comes with practise, and playing there is no jumps. I know two players who switched to 3 fingers one when he wasn't ready and made a mess of his playing and had to spend 6 months re-learning his right hand more or less and the other thought about it slowly then decided to do it.
Like i said for me it was how i played when i first picked up the bass, but i've studied the "technique" as it were in great depth
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Yup! Agreed.
[quote name='ChristopherGilbert' timestamp='1323790910' post='1467087']
I play power-inspired metal. Mainly chugging single notes at speed is my problem. Not the speed part exactly, but switching strings to play different notes. Or at really high speeds, just switching to any other note at the right time can be a problem when I play with 3 fingers.
I have been playing for about 2 or 3 months now and my two finger style and speed is pretty good I feel. I have no problems there really. But i'm at the point now where using two fingers for the speed of notes I want to play is just not optimal. So it's either 3 or or a plectrum! I'll take your suggestion and start off slow and work my way up.
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I used to play in a Power Metal band and could do the stuff with 2 fingers. 3 was more natural though so it just made life that little bit easier. Start slow and just count 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3 - speed comes with practice.
Also to quote Mr Timmy C in RATM - "If you can do it with one finger, you should. If you can do it with two finger, you should choose over three."