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Is tone just in the fingers? #bass #bassguitar #guitar


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Originally posted by UCPVjQ58A0BujzVMEmFCJ3hA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi4mk75tGnQ

40 thoughts on “Is tone just in the fingers? #bass #bassguitar #guitar

  • Tone's in both your hands, buds. You'll get a different tone if you really dig into the fret like Billy Sheehan or if you strike the string really hard like Geddy Lee.

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  • its a little of everything i think personally, think about playing with hard plucks versus softly walking across the strings, then you have fretless, semi hollow, stand ups, acoustics, and any combination of that, then you have different variations of strings, different body woods, what kind of pickups are they, i could honestly go on but you get my point, tone comes from a little of this and that

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  • The individual pickup tones are being affected by hand placement already. Doesn’t playing closer to the bridge create a more trebly, tinny sound

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  • Anyone who seriously thinks time comes just from the fingers is delusional. Maybe 15% of your tone comes from that

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  • While I am a firm believer that there are many different things that go into tone, your test is technically flawed because you didn't play in the same spot for both pickups

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  • You altered the playing style more when showing the sound between the different pickups, which contributed at least as much of a difference to the sound than the pickups.

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  • When people say tone is in the fingers, I think this particular example isn’t what they’re referring to.

    If I picked up Steve Harris’ rig tomorrow… would it sound like Steve’s tone? No. Elements of it would be there, but largely no.

    If he picked up mine? Probably very very close, would just need some shifting of EQ.

    The playing style & the way your hand reacts to the strings & pickups is 70% of the tone, IMO.

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  • I play with my hand at an angle so my fingers hhit the strings as iff I were playing a stand up.

    It's my favourite way to change tone with my hands

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  • a good way to put it is the tone comes from the bass/amp and how clear the tone is comes from the fingers

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  • Personally i think that any regularly functional bass with any tone can be made to sound well by a well trained ear and touch.
    Someone without the skill wouldnt know how to control the sound to that degree. Although all and all flavour is subjective, so depends on what " good tone" means to us and to the listener.
    Idk what more to add.
    Personally i like tones like on that one song from Gjorge Balasevic called Montenegro ekspres. Its such a slick tone

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  • It's not "tone doesn't change from instrument to instrument" it's more like… if you have a standard bass like fender Pbass or jazz, you can achieve a DIVERSE set of sounds just by playing in different positions and at different velocities. In the right hands, any bass with good intonation and working electronics can sound great.

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  • I’d say tone comes from a variety of places, but the right hand technique is definitely one of them. For example, on certain songs I use a pick shocked pikachu face because it has a better attack that matches the song better

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  • I think the idea behind the phrase is more that anyone dedicated enough to fiddle can get *close enough*, and that ultimately playing matters most. But this is funny so i reckon it doesn’t matter

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  • Who ever said that has no common sense. I’m new to bass but I have at least 2 brain cells. One tells me basic electronics and other is basic physics

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  • For any amplified instrument, the most significant impact on tone is always the speakers.

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  • I think when people say tone is in the finger they don't actually mean the timbre of the sound, rather I think they mean the style and tastiness of the sound. At least that's what I think.

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  • Saying tones comes from the fingers, is like saying tone comes from the wood type. Tone comes from 3 things. Pickups, string age, and skill

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