How to JAM a Metal Bass Solo Like Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath)

[howard]

@JoshFossgreen

For the record - I don’t think this is a good technique in a lot of situations. That aggressive clack sound really doesn’t deliver the goods for a chill reggae groove, or a Motown line, or a mellow ballad.

Yeah for sure. For me it only seems to come out when playing fast and aggressive songs - but it’s definitely naturally happening, I don’t need to think about it, it’s just something I do.

I kind of described it a year or so back:

Plucking question

So the thing I found myself doing was I had adopted a sort of downward strike to my pluck. I was still plucking directly through the string like we are supposed to, but due to how I was plucking my finger would come down with kind of a percussive tap on the string before i plucked it. It actually sounds kind of cool. But not what I wanted in the context of normal plucking Anyway, like Gio said, just being aware of it helps a lot towards avoiding it.