Double bass technique on electric bass? 

In my experience, good technique is the ability to play your bass part - regardless of its level of difficulty - in such a way that a recording engineer will not want to physically hurt you.

"the listener doesnt want to hear your technique..." - thats the best advice ive ever gotten.

One finger per fret - just say no in the lower frets. Excellent video!

I so appreciate your opinion. I've been playing bass for 15 years and want to be able to make interesting harmonics on my bass. I wish I could have been more in to Simandl at the time so it's back to basics. Great video.

Great video! couple quick thoughts: Upright bass you want to avoid open G and sometimes D because the tonal difference is too great. Arco exercises are excellent for improving intonation in the left hand, with pizz the pitch is harder to hear. Simadl never used the 3rd finger until thumb position (12th fret) where Rabbath and others used 3rd finger around 5-7th fret (player dependant). There are 3 distinct fingering positions on upright: Lower frets use 1,2&4, at the heel uses 1,2,3,4 and thumb uses T,1,2,3 (only T,1,2 on A&E strings). Getting around the heel of the neck is the big issue and you have to practice transitioning between all 3 smoothly. Think of the string as a light beam and your fingers move quickly on top, the thumb should move out of the way as the notes get higher. And rather than pushing a string down the weight of your arm pulls the string down. You can practice (arco preferred) playing octaves on the same string, 1/4 notes.

A very welcome, all too often ignored, important aspect of bass technique.

Simandl fingering is great in the lower positions but I myself am not as big a fan of it after position II. Do love the 30 etudes book.

So what is the best way to begin to learn and apply the Simandl method to the electric bass? If you have been playing one-finger-per-fret for several years (with some pain from stretching), how do you start to transition? Start with scales? Triads and arpeggios?

could you do a transcript of The Fairy Fellers Master-Stroke - Queen song?

If someone told you that they agreed with everything you said in this video, and that they wanted to learn the Simandl method for their electric bass, how would you recommend they learn it? Is there a book (or series of books) you would recommend? A detailed reference that would help a student learn? If you could offer your thoughts and ideas, it would be VERY much appreciated!!

When it be accurate to say that you use the Simandl method, you essentially never use the third finger by itself? To play a note, I mean?

Love it. I guess this video is too

I really don't think that tone and technique are the same. I agree that technique is an important part of tone, but there are quite a few other factors involved in tone or the way you sound, such as your choice of strings, your pickups type and configuration, and so on and so on. I don't think that you can use those interchangeably, as you imply here in your video.