4 Reasons To Play BASS With Your Thumb!! -From muted tones to awesome bass fuzz! (Bass Chat No:7)

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Welcome to this weeks lesson video all about using your thumb to play bass.
Often overlooked as a beginner habit, this is actually a go to technique for many great bassist wanting to find a different tone to the standard finger and pick tones.

Time stamps for the different technique uses:

Muted tone : 00:53
Playing chords : 03:15
Drone notes : 05:34
Shaping sound of a fuzz pedal : 07:02


The tones in the video were achieved using:

Squier 54 jazz bass with roundwound strings
Fender jazz bass with flatwound strings
Bad Penny FX Little Box fuzz pedal
Ernie Ball Ambient Delay pedal


Bad Penny FX Little Box demo:    • Seriously Huge Sounding Bass Fuzz?! Bad Pe...  

Other gear in the video:

Cioks DC7 power supply
Practical Patch custom cables
Korg Pitchblack Custom tuner pedal
Eden WTDI preamp pedal (Di out recorded)


Drums are samples in Ableton controlled via the Roland TR8.

Song in the background is my song ‘41Hertz’. To hear the song without me talking over it you can listen hear:    • 41 Hertz (Music Video) Bass Led Arrangement  


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Thank you very much for watching and until next time, keep working on those bass faces!

All music written, performed and recorded by Gavin Forbes.