four finger

[moo210]

i can play with two or three fingers, but when I try to play with four, my pinky is too short to be used, any suggestions?

[avenger86]

Originally posted by moo210
i can play with two or three fingers, but when I try to play with four, my pinky is too short to be used, any suggestions?

I'm assuming your talking about your picking hand....**** man...I can get good speed with 2 fingers..I use 3 fingers for triplets...Why in hell would you possibly need a 4 finger technique?

[moo210]

because a lot of songs I play need that much speed

[cubby]

Well, other than shortening your other three fingers the only option seems to be to keep practicing.

[i_finlayson37]

You could try changing the angle of your hand so the pinky is closer to the strings.

[moo210]

Originally posted by i_finlayson37
You could try changing the angle of your hand so the pinky is closer to the strings.

Yeah, aimed my fingers a little more to the left and so now my pinky isn't too short to reach, but my pinky and ring fingers hit the string at the same time, I can move one without moving th other

[Cobb]

im having this problem myself... i rest my thumb on the bridge pickup and pick at about the neck pickup, so the angle works out with the pinky...

tell me how it works out


btw 4 fingers are for 64th notes...

generally...

great for soloing

[Hachi_Kid]

oh yea, I've been using four fingers since around christmas. it came sort of natural to me. I picked it up without much of a problem(I've been playing for 3 years) I was inspired by a video with some that I found by chance on KaZaA a couple years ago with a bass player who blew my mind. I thought he was using four fingers but later found out that the bass player, a certain Billy Sheehan, used only 3. but I still liked the idea of four fingers because I am the only person that uses four that I know of.

about the pinkie angle problems, just change your angle up a little bit if you have shorter fingers. I got huge Billy Sheehan/Steve Vai fingers so my pinkie length wasn't a problem. I just worked on getting a consistent rhythm(8th notes, 16th notes, etc.) out of my picking hand and then once I became fluid I started synchronizing my right and left hands and I'm still not Petrucci clean, but I'm getting there.

I just use four because three is too confusing for 4/4 time and two wasn't fast enough for me. since I am left handed but play right handed bass, I sat in school for the first bit starting out just tapping my fingers on my desk and trying to get it consistent. just tapping 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4...etc. I can't tell you much about how I got my left and right hand synchronized though.

I don't really know how, I just know I improved a little bit every day. I hope this helped.












rock. :cool:

[moo210]

uhh, hey i know thi is an old topic, but ive been trying this whole time to play with 4 fingers and i still cant get it. Did anyone else do any better?