Hi, I’m new here so sorry if this has been discussed before. I learned to play bass in my early teens by grabbing the right handed bass provided in a cheap rehearsal studio we used to hire and flipping it over to play it left handed. Now, 4 decades later I still play this way and do regular professional gigs. Ive completely forgotten about it but am sometimes reminded by audience members who notice the "upside down " bass. My question is - I’m branching out into learning slap bass but no-one has anything that tutors using my less than usual positioning. It does affect how it all works though because for a start the strings are inverted so you cant use finger plucking the same way for instance. Anyone know how to address this? Its becoming more common as a requirement sometimes when Im asked to learn a modern cover.
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There’s some advantage to that practice despite the “one” big downside up side down. You can’t pop the top string (G) conventionally you kinda have to pinch it with 2 fingers to make that work properly.
Luckily one of the grand master of funk is doing just that and you can check him out.
Here’s Sonny T
Or this one the first song Merci. He just slap the top string so well it sounds like popping. What a master.
I love it I have one bass stung up inverted too it’s just so fun. Sorry it buzz a bit
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Check out MonoNeon.
I’m not sure if he ever talks about it, but there are lots of videos where you can see his technique.
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