Week 14 Bass Challenge - "Well OK Honey" by Jenny O. | Forums

[Vector_Shift]

Nice job on your video. I like the way you blended the two perspectives. Your Bass height looks fine to me. Since you did ask for pointers ..... you might experiment with alternate picking. I think it would smooth out your playing and help you with the faster passages. Also I think you could pluck the strings a little lighter. This will help with speed and tone. It is also important the you don't pluck too hard on finger style ( maybe more so). I fall victim to this vice myself quite often

Yeah, I really ought to get more alternate picking practice in. The problem is I enjoy playing along to the songs, and there's no way in Rocksmith to slow down a whole song, and I can't keep up if I'm focusing on my picking. But I should just bite the bullet and spend my time on it. I just enjoy these challenges so much that I spend most of my time on them.

And yeah, I know I pluck a bit hard. I can pluck more softly but it takes more concentration. Another thing I should spend time on.

One thing I've been meaning to ask everyone... What pick do you use for your bass? I need to buy some more picks and I'm wondering which ones work well for bass and which don't.

[rcole_sooner]

I have one bass pick, but I prefer my purple Tortex guitar picks. The bass pick is a very thick plastic pick, but I need to get used to it.

Here is the bass pick. I don't know what brand it is, it came with the Ibanez bass.