Flying Fingers - do we really need to care?

Technique
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@GingerBug, celestial F clef, man. :joy:

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I saw this image in a YouTube video the other night: the bass (F) clef. Wish it showed the years and places they were used. Still pretty cool.

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Some killer band logos in there

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For my own perspective on this

  1. My fingers are attached to rest of me so I’ll never look good on stage :rofl:
  2. I don’t care how my fingers look to anyone else
  3. I DO want speed and accuracy at some point

So for the technique aspect I have 1 reason out of many to motivate me to work on FF. This isn’t enough to motivate me to control this, they come more under control as I learn the piece anyway.

However, there is a single reason that DOES motivate me to control my little piggies and that is MY TONE!

When a finger flies in and hits the string into the fret wire it will ring moments before I pluck. At worst this means I will sound out the note twice, at best ‘My Tone’ will lead with a hammer-on tone before my plucked tone enters the fray. How I look is irrelevant but how I sound is paramount.

As I said just my own perspective to drive my own motivation :+1:

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You might find some interesting things in here: A history of music : Stanford, Charles Villiers, 1852-1924 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Oh awesome! Thanks for that.

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I posted this video in Discord a few days back:

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For me it’s because of ergonomic issues and the structure of my hand. Everyone’s hand is different, from palm and finger length, to angle. If I do the “correct” thing, it’s painful on my wrist after time. Also I have a double-jointed thumb that does not want to stay even lightly anchored on the back of the neck, causing more issues. It’s not classicial violin, it’s a bass which is often playing punk, rock, blues, and other imprecise genres.

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:rofl:

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Very true - IMO the bass is kind of stuck halfway between guitar and double bass with regard to technigue - most of the instruction seems to regard it as a classical guitar (flying fingers, one finger per fret etc) but the teaching methods don’t 100% transfer

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Looks like he may be doing hammerons with his fretting hand. ‘The Real Me’ is one of my favorites.

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I know it’s not something we’re supposed to really stress about, but I’ve been putting a lot of work in on keeping my fingers down until I need to move them.

Josh’s video and exercise here has been massively helpful in that regard.

Not just flying fingers, but moving between different fingering techniques, look-ahead, walk ups and downs. It really does help with a lot of the mechanics all at once.

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Honestly nothing you need to work at, it comes naturally over time with practice. Take a while but is auto-correcting.

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