Right hand stuff

[DJpullchord]

Rest strokes or free strokes?
I'm new to bass so please bear with me.
Grrrrrrrrr.

[fleabag]

Not sure what you mean.

I'll take a guess and say you're talking about resting your hand when plucking, or leaving your hand free floating ???

[SpondonBassed]

I feel grotty for checking this topic out. Could you rephrase the question please?

[xgsjx]

Oooh err

Rest stroke is where you play through the string & come to rest on the following string.
Free stroke is where you freely go up & down like having a, erm, good ole strum (even if it's just on the one string).

Most players use a free stroke, but if you're double thumbing, then you use a rest stroke.

Hope that came out okay.

Edit to say, that phrase about most players isn't 100% accurate. If you play with fingers, then there's a chance you may play the rest stroke.

Edited September 19, 2017 by xgsjx

[DJpullchord]

What is double thumbing????!

So if I'm playing an i m i m i m i m type thing, on the same string on a bass, I should use free strokes?
What about a three finger gallop?
This is turning into an up Pompeii routine.

Cheers!

[Cato]

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What is double thumbing????!

Cheers!
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http://youtu.be/5Q-XdZWgZzM

If you've just started don't worry about double thumbing.

It's one of the trickiest techniques to master and comes with it's own little world of pain.

Edited September 19, 2017 by Cato

[DJpullchord]

Aaaaah fretw*** as my wife calls it.
Being playing guitar for a few whiles but just started bass.
I see he's playing free strokes but that's to achieve the pop innit?

If you play scales, do you play free or rest strokes?
Maybe it doesn't really matter.

[DJpullchord]

Is he muting the top string on purpose? Sounds broken.

[Steve Woodcock]

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Rest strokes or free strokes?
I'm new to bass so please bear with me.
Grrrrrrrrr.
[/quote]

Either are fine, personally I use rest strokes as the slight 'thud' of your finger hitting the string below adds a little more weight to the note.


Edited for inclusion of video Gary Willis explaining the same thing:

[url="http://youtu.be/oRrmxH1wVlE?t=12m23s"]http://youtu.be/oRrmxH1wVlE?t=12m23s[/url]

Edited September 20, 2017 by Steve Woodcock

[bazzbass]

work out what you want to know, then find a way to verbalise it so we can understand

[SpondonBassed]

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work out what you want to know, then find a way to verbalise it so we can understand
[/quote]

Pardon?

[Count Bassy]

You're being very leftist here. You should be saying 'Plucking hand', or some lefties (can I say that even?) may be offended!