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Pick or fingerstyle

Stingray MattStingray Matt Posts: 24
edited March 2004 in Musicians and Gearheads
So, which is your preferred method of playing bass?

Mine is fingerstyle, picking is for noses...!
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  • BufaloBufalo Posts: 32
    fingers, absolutely.
  • ExodusExodus Posts: 212
    well... i think there is a time and a place for both...
    i like the sound that ffingers get better...
    but, being a novice bass player, i cant get the speed or agility that i can with a pick.
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  • hailhail82hailhail82 Posts: 330
    Depends. If I'm playing punk, I use a pick. If I'm playing country (or anything else really) I use my fingers.
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  • mccreadyisgodmccreadyisgod Posts: 6,395
    Pick is punchy, VERY present. Fingers give a mellower, rounder, fuller sound. For different bands, or even different songs for the same band, I'll switch back and forth. If it's a very driving song, I'll tend to use a pick. If it's a mellower tune, or something needing a fuller (if less defined) sound, then I'll use fingers. Hell, I've been known to switch back and forth between, say, verses and choruses in the same song. It's all what the song needs.
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  • pariahpariah Posts: 596
    When I play bass, I use the fingers.... just because I don't get to do that playing guitar :)

    BTW my bass player switches even within songs, and I'm glad he does. Helps set the atmosphere of a certain passage better...
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  • KwyjiboKwyjibo Posts: 662
    fiiiingers
    although picks are sometimes useful
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  • puremagicpuremagic Posts: 1,907
    both, but fingers mostly. Lately I've been thinking about getting some customized slipon pics, especially, like Zappa used.
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