One thing to bear in mind is that action height is only one part of a setup. Neck relief issues can also cause buzzing regardless of action height. And bad intonation is always bad, regardless of action.
I’d encourage everyone to learn to do a proper setup. You can still set the action high if you like
You need to know how to do it eventually anyway; getting a bass set up is not a one-time-only thing, generally guitars need adjustment over time due to several factors (temperature, humidity, different string sets, etc).
I’ve been using this at the end of my warm up for about 30 - 45 minutes every day for about the past month to work on these things. Absolute killer exercise that I think anyone from a beginner to a gigging pro could benefit from.
Here’s the PDF for the exercise that’s linked in the video (this is what I use mostly).
EDIT: OK, I think I know what happened. The first time, I right-clicked on your link and saved it. After posting my copy, I left-clicked on your link, which opened the PDF in my browser without the error, and then downloaded from there. Weird.
i just started a thread about the book josh recommends in his new video, learn faster, perform better. the author dr. molly gebrian is a concert level violinist. i was curious what she would have to say about increasing speed and it turns out it was the one area of the book i was a little disappointed in. not because the info was bad but because it was mostly geared toward (as is the whole book btw) orchestral practice with orchestral instruments (woodwinds, bowed string instruments, etc) and orchestral pieces. so it’s a little difficult to wrap your head around as a bassist. howevs she does include one technique which is simple and actually pretty obvious so it shouldn’t surprise anyone but also very effective and anyone can use it. take a fast song and a metronome. play the song at whatever tempo you can play it at absolutely 100% cleanly. it doesn’t matter how slow. then increase the speed of the metronome until it feels SLIGHTLY faster. if it seems definitely faster you have bumped it up too much. this might be increasing the bpm as fast as 10 bpm or so or as slow as only 3 depending on the difficulty of the piece. once you can nail this 100% cleanly, then repeat. the key here is 100% absolutely cleanly, not “that’s pretty good”. this not only works at figuring out difficult fast songs but also just leveling up straight speed chugging, ie try it with a ramones song.
