Hello all!
I have this curiosity nagging me inside out whenever I see someone playing their base on youtube (also Josh in his intros to the lessons). They sometimes stretch the string that they are playing up or down on the fretting hand way farther than its location. This makes their string look like almost made out of rubber for me.
Whenever I see this, I try it if I am holding my bass but my strings (D and G for example) feel extremely rigid to be doing what they are doing seemingly effortlessly.
I got my original strings changed when I took my bass to a local shop for setup and maintenance and the guy put 40-95 set of gauges stating that this will make the feel of the strings waaay softer.
When I came home I had the feeling that he had the action set too high for me so I got it back down following youtube instructions.
-Setting it just fine for no Fret noise
-Tuning after every change and moving quarter turns only
-Checked the tuning and intonation in the end.
But still my strings wonât stretch out as they do in these videos. I couldnât find a âJosh Introâ but I will update this message if I run into it again.
What do you guys think?
-String related?
-Setup related?
-Fretting hand strength?