Floating Thumb Technique For Bass - Lessons For Bass Guitar Series

Floating Thumb Technique For Bass - Lessons For Bass Guitar Series
This bass guitar lesson is for beginner to advanced students
In this lesson, we take a look at the concept of the Floating Thumb, a way to modify your hand position to reduce the possibility of hand injury from harsh angles of the wrist while the thumb is anchored to the pickup. I personally find that this technique helps to increase stamina and speed.
We will play with the standard approach to the Floating Thumb, as well as my personal approach.
The standard technique has your thumb rest across the strings, muting the strings you are not playing. With the modified approach I use the thumb placed at a slight angle into the gap between the string, and the thumb will rest on the string behind the one that is being played. I find this to be a useful way to mute a specific string. In later lessons, we will see that the thumb in this position can also be used to play double and triple stops.
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[@AdrienneHampton-sp9wp]

Thank you so much! I have mild but persistent tendinitis in my right hand. This technique allowed me to practice pain-free today. I'm doing this from now on! Thanks again!

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[@myklallen7184]

I just started training myself to use the first example of the floating thumb.. One of my favorite bass player, "Alphonso Johnson " plays this way....

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[@aaronl7669]

do you find your shoulder needs to get used to taking on more of the burden? my shoulder seems to get tired with this technique, but it's better for my thumb joint. you have to turn up the bass volume some too it seems.

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[@SteveTheBassGuy]

Hi Arron, the idea is to let the Amp do the work, if your shoulder is hurting you may be holding stress in it. I suggest letting the arm relax, and proceed with the exercise. I hope that helps.

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@@SteveTheBassGuy Great advice Steve! :)

[@SteveTheBassGuy]

@@BassMusicianMagazine thank you

[@royhoward119]

Thanks for the ,lesson! May I ask a question? Do I understand that with your preferred method, you are muting the string directly below the string you are currently playing/plucking? For example, when you are striking the D string, you are muting the A string but not the E (and not a low B if you were playing a 5 string)?

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[@SteveTheBassGuy]

Yes that is correct.

[@captaingoodguySentientA.I.]

You should feature mike huckabee in one of your videos.

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[@johndavid3114]

You seriously thought it was a good idea to but that url at the bottom of the video? Covering your hand, the very thing this video is about. Nice.

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