From the course: John Patitucci: Electric Bass Complete

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Technique

Technique

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Technique

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- We'll start with hand position. I feel it's important to play with the one finger per fret spacing. And I also feel it's important that you have your fingers curled up like this and keep your second finger around parallel to your thumb. Take a look at that and you can see. That they're about parallel. Sometimes the thumb might scoot behind the first finger and that's okay too depending on the passage your playing. But, to illustrate we'll do a simple E major scale and we'll use the fingering two four, one, two four, one three four. Now, we used curled finger position so that the notes have full and round tone and there's a minimum of movement by the left hand. We always want economy of movement when it come to the left hand. So if you practice with the fingers curled it's possible to play much more fluidly and rapidly (plays guitar) with greater use.

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