beginners help: looking into bass guitar

[Dmitry]

I've never heard this, but it sounds cool.

I bought one of these things to help with individual finger dexterity:

http://www.isokineticsinc.com/product/cg_10-0742

It's nice to have lying around at work or when you get fidgity. I found that I drummed the fingers of my right hand on everything once I started playing bass.

I had one of those, they help alot.

There's a lot of good advise here. The salt water thing is nice, since when you first start playing you'll get callouses and it will suck.



Gadritan had good advice for stretching, hopefully he can post some techniques. I know when I first started playing with my fingers, I could definitely feel it in my forearm, and my fingers would sort of lock up? I suppose, can't remember it too much, sort of like a painless cramp where they just didn't want to move fast enough. lol

[Gadritan]

I know when I first started playing with my fingers, I could definitely feel it in my forearm, and my fingers would sort of lock up? I suppose, can't remember it too much, sort of like a painless cramp where they just didn't want to move fast enough. lol

That's exactly what I'm talking about.

There's some good stuff on youtube to help with finger stretching, dexterity, strength etc. It's a lot easier to show it visually than try to explain it. Just search "Greg Irwin Finger Fitness." It's really cheesy shit, but it works wonders.