Thank you @Mac 
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thatâs funny how you use your pick @PamPurrs , you mostly attack from down-to-up which is very unusual. thatâs the first time I see this, I think 
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I jusr went with what felt most comfortable to me. is attacking this way a bad thing? Is this something I need to correct?
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probably not a problem, thatâs just not the usual way to use a pick so it looked weird to me. but if it works for you, thatâs fine, I guess
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Iâll work on that. Thanks for the advice.
P.S. What do you think of the French translation? Is it accurate?
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yes, itâs exactly exact !
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Why would you work on it? There is nothing wrong with it, if it works for you then keep using it. Did someone tell John Entwistle he should work on his right hand technique because it wasnât by the book?
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Fat Mike starts everything with an up stroke. Some baselines he goes back thru the string, but much of the time he is only up picking.
He is one of the fastest bassists in punk rock that plays clean with good tone IMO.
He doesnât have an explanation for it, he was self taught until later on in his career when he wanted to have more to do with theory, and it shows in his later work compared to his early stuff.
After hearing him talk about it I started to think about it like this, when we play with our fingers, are we not mostly up stroking?
He also plays VERY SOFTLY, but deadly fast, and proudly uses a .06 Pink Dunlop pick that says Fat Mike on it. I can understand how he wontâ be liked by many, but I have learned alot from him with some of his little tips and tricks the few times I have seen him show how to play a bass-line.
I think you can use a pick however is most comfortable and makes you feel like you can play better, but I am not a big pick player, so I might be totally wrong.
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I agree, pick how you like. I donât think @terb was saying it was bad, just unusual (which it is, but that doesnât mean bad.)
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Nice cover @PamPurrs! Love that song and I even learned something from it. 
By the way I also tried out a similar Ibanez like yours. I didnât mind the hollow body but my son disliked it too. For me it was the feel of the neck that I didnât like. I had something similar with my LTD ESP guitar which was a pure beauty (all white, neck too) but I didnât like the feel of the neck either. Donât know how to describe itâs probably the coating that makes it feel a bit too âplasticâ?
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itâs probably a PE (polyester) finish then. I hate this too, I know itâs personnal and it wonât be a problem for a lot of people, but itâs just something I donât want to touch. I have only one guitar with this finish and I almost never play it for this reason.
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Yeah I think thatâs it Terb. Nice guitar and riff that you linked. 
This one was mine, I just have a Fender now.
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Greetings Low Frequency Boys and Girls!
Taking a break from the 50 Song/100 Week Challenge, here is a Beatles cover that Iâve been working on. It was more difficult that I thought, but I got through it. I hope you enjoy it. I used the Hofner tuned to EADG, into the Scarlett 2i2 DAI, Garage Band DAW with the 60âs Combo amp sim, video captured with a Lumix DMC-FZ300 camera and edited with iMovie.
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Tres bien @JerryP!!!
Great job!
You have motivated me to record one I have been fiddling with. Time to get it done.
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That pretty much describes me in general 
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Good bass playing @JerryP, and I love that song (I was 16 when it came out and was in love with The Beatles).
I would have liked the overall volume a bit higher, but otherwise it was enjoyable.
Great job!
P.S. That makes 2 covers in a row with French lyrics in them
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Thanks Joe! Much appreciated.
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