If Bassists Played Like THIS, They’d Play 10x Faster! 

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1:11 be relaxed, use good posture 2:28 play lighter (approx. 40%(?)), lighter touch = less tension = faster playing 4:46 consistently use alternate plucking

I was at a MegaDeath concert and watched in amazement as James LoMenzo used 4 fingers….. mind blown 🤯

I don’t think blisters necessarily means bad technique. They can appear even with good technique. They will stop showing up once you develop calluses after practicing for a while.

Thx for the tips ❤

Excellent suggestions

Thank you!

Awesome awesome video….well done

Wow 10x faster! From 200 to 2000.... then I`m machine-gun...) I will listen to your tips, sounds all good to me and nice explained!

Can you give a link to the exercise video? I can't see any on screen video link. Cheers.

Billy Sheahan can finger pluck just as fast as paul Gilbert can pick.

Thx for the lesson. As a french ,it seems to me you have an accent i can' t define. Where are you from??

Why do you imply that peoples uses a pick because they have problem using their fingers? They are just different tools for different purposes.

Nobody ever talks about the area on the fingers that makes contact with the string, what angle on the string (0 deg being the part that touches the fret and 180 being diametrically opposite, where your finger presses on) is stroked by the finger or the trajectories of the plucking fingers. These are all important mechanics that are needed for smooth playing but players following tutorials are left to find out by trial and error, which I had to largely do myself. The rest stroke doesn't work for me. It slows down my finger plucking speed,as it takes too much time on really fast plucking to move it off the rest string and move into position for the next pluck. I find it easier to use a pick or one finger in a lot of cases.

But you forgot tip #4....PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE!

10x faster! That would be true only if you could play at a pitifully slow 1 note per second.

Thanks for the tips. You probably already know this, but your audio has a lot of earth hum.

Someone should tell Jeff Berlin about this video and all the stuff he's doing wrong, so that he can start to play fast and good. 🙄