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Play Bass With Pick

What sounds do we get and is it rite to play bass with a pick or plectrum?

Learn pick and finger style, to be a great bass player you should play both! My article is focusing on the pick player, the pick style of bass playing! I myself am a pick style bass player, I love playing with a pick, love the sounds I can make and the great part of making people dance and enjoy the music! Carol developed the flat wrist pick technique and the deep sound with the click. For me this was the start of pick playing, there are other players who played with the pick, on big hit records and also helped to shape this style of playing.

Work and experiment playing in various parts around the bass's pick ups to get different sounds.

Picks are for punks and heavy metal players with wristbands! Not really you can apply a pick to any style of music, any groove, play any song you desire if played and practiced well.

Working with the pick. Like alternate fingering with fingers it's important to play down - up picking.

DOWN the pick goes to the floor, UP the pick comes up to you. Holding the pick is important! Stick with the same type of pick!