I don’t use my pinky finger above the 12th fret. Kind of a double bass type fingering thing. Why do something that is uncomfortable and hurts?
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Agreed. My muscular stump of a pinky is kinda recalcitrant about that.
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Welcome @emilylmessina !
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I recently managed to get better at this! You can do it on whatever fret your fingers are comfy! I started on 7th fret.
To me, what worked, was just placing my pinky on let’s say 7th fret. Then, I started placing the rest of the hand without doing 1-Finger-per-fret rotating my palm so my knuckles are straight (as straight as knuckles can be since fingers vary in size lol) and trying to place my 1st finger on whatever fret I could stretch without pain, let’s say 5th.
As far as I can tell, nobody has pinkies that stretch by themselves to find E bass, it’s a technique that we learn. And it’s very useful, to use pinky. Just don’t stress yourself, if you hurt, try again another day.
I hope this makes sense. -_-
Cheers!
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