Guide to Bass Guitar – Two different ways to play Bass

you can play bass with your your fingers
using a rest stroke which sort of works
like this
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or you can like I do and play with a pic
so you would essentially just
or if you wanted to play a funk you
could use what’s called the slap
technique where as you sort of hit the
string with your thumb
and then you find your octave which
would be essentially the same note which
would be in your sort of box formation
right here so here I’d be playing an a
and then I would pick up my other a
using my finger so you can see it’s the
same note but just on a different
octaves so you can essentially do things
like this like and that’s how a lot of
those guys play a lot of those fancy
licks