Basic Right Hand Tone Production

[@ModernityUnraveled]

Great series! I came back now for the third time to re-restart my jazz bass journey!

[@RPdosSantos]

Greetings Mr. Fitzgerald for your excellent classes. You are a great bassist and teacher. Thank you, in name of all double-bassists in the World!

[@chrisfitzgerald8356]

You are most welcome. Thanks for checking in!

[@matanja1]

Always good to come back to this video

[@Murdo2112]

This is one of the most useful videos I've found on regarding the double bass. Moving over to DB from bass guitar I've found, contrary to my expectations, that the right hand was what needed the most re-thinking. The tips given here have helped me more than just about everything else I've watched put together: thanks Chris.

[@99CKINGable]

Awesome video, please keep making them. You have a new folower. You're a great teacher, very relateable and good explinations

[@chrisfitzgerald8356]

Absolutely! The "on the fingerboard/through the string/arm weight" concept works just the same on EUB's.

[@SafouanSouai]

Thanks MR Fitzgerald for all Your lessons even if i'm not a Double bass Player but it just interesting

[@trouble1macker202]

This is really helpful. Perhaps a tutorial on how to get this fluid with speed, or perhaps two fingers? Thanks!

[@chalmersg]

Great lesson.

[@chrisfitzgerald8356]

Thanks! It's a duo recording I did with Dave Klingman. THe tune is "You Don't Know What Love Is".

[@davidrichardson306]

Nice lessons Chris.

[@mattwilsonbassplayer]

These are great videos Chris, thank you.

[@MrFunkyplatypus]

Chris-are you the same Chris Fitzgerald as the one on talkbass? Awesome video, really helpful. I actually feel like I'm getting somewhere with my bass playing now?

[@KATTWILD]

Great video, really helpful I helping to create tone...thank you

[@tariqzellable]

Thanks this was a great help to me

[@chrisfitzgerald8356]

trouble1macker - the "Permutations" video covers 2 and three finger patterns, and is basically the right hand warmup I do some version of every time I pick up the bass.

[@warwick170]

Thank you for your response this is really helpful.

[@chrisfitzgerald8356]

My wife calls it a "scrunchy" - basically it's a ponytail hair tie. I put it there to tame the open strings a bit and make them sound more in line with the stopped strings.

[@chrisfitzgerald8356]

Chris - thanks! Part 3 is in progress, and I'll put it up as soon as it's done. Thanks for the feedback. Grvthang - there are a lot of possible reasons for what you mention, and I'd have to see you pull the string in person to really say. It could be a string height issue, a physical technique issue, a string issue (some strings have more tension than others), or a number of different issues.

[@thejjsband]

great vid!!!

[@Grvthang]

Nice lesson. You get so much more volume out of your bass then I get. The "thump" of my finger landing on the next string is much louder in comparison to the weak volume of the string I'm playing. Can it be because it's a crappy rental bass?

[@groovychronics5611]

I love your account picture lol did you take the picture?

[@chrisfitzgerald8356]

At this time, that cut is up on my website on the "Soundfiles" page near the top. My site is being redesigned, but I plan to keep that cut on it in the future. Thanks for listening!

[@theZeitoune]

great video, man! thanks for uploading. just one question - what is the song played in when the title is shown? it's quote catchy

[@MrFunkyplatypus]

That '?' was supposed to be a '!'. Great video :)

[@chrisfitzgerald8356]

Joe - one and the same. Thanks for the feedback. :)

[@FinePairofPollocks]

Thank just what i need

[@eachness]

I love yours!

[@warwick170]

Chris can this same technique be applied to an Ampeg baby bass being that its an upright bass as well.

[@SLAPTHEBASS11]

hey is that a hair tie around the nut? what is the purpose?

[@canoai]

And yet.. It was awsome :D

[@BohemDilenci]

How do I get listen full version?

[@WildwoodvalleyBoy]

..its so non-sensical to teach bass students to pull with ONE finger, no wonder it gets sore and blistery. My method is to teach a TWO-finger pull. Doesn't common sense tell you that by so doing you lessen the finger stress by half?..and I think the pull should be almost perpendicular to strings,..maybe 75 or 80 deg.- 2.5 to 3 inches from end of fingerboard.