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Left-hand technique

Left-hand technique

From the course: Bass: Teach Yourself

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Left-hand technique

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- Alright, let's move over to left-hand technique now. So your thumb is going to always stay in the back of the neck. And it is basically pressing against the back of the neck, and your fingers are pressing in the opposite direction, and you're sort of gripping the neck in between the pressure of your thumb and your fingers. So keep your thumb in the back, and then with your finger pressure, you can either go on the very tip or on a little bit of the pad of the finger. It's not like other stringed instruments, where's it's really important that you play on the very tip of the finger. On this, the string is so big that you really have to press it down with as much of your finger as possible. So let's just move between the first four frets, okay, I'm just going to play the first finger behind the first fret, and notice that I have to be to the left of the fret, a little bit closer to the headstock, not too far back, but not on top of the fret, just directly behind, check it out. (plays…

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