Alternating Fingers When Playing Bass

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CASEY CORMIER: Okay. So, so far when we played, when we plucked our strings on the bass guitar, we've really have been careful about alternating fingers. Now we should be really skilled about alternating fingers when we play a line [PLAYS FAST BASS LINE]. But notice, if we're playing fast like this [PLAYS FAST BASS LINE], switching strings this time especially on the way back down would be kind of a burden. If we're playing a line like remember that afro beat line [PLAYS BASS LINE], we can start off with alternating [PLAYS BASS LINE] but look, when I play [SINGS AND PLAYS BASS LINE] when I play it from the C on the D string here it didn't matter what notes I'm playing on this string. What's important is I let my second finger here roll from here. So it's 1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-2 instead of 1; otherwise, that's kinda of choppy. So when you're playing down, let that same finger roll. I play G string. When I'm playing up--when I'm moving up the strings, I alternate fingers because that's the quickest way up. But when I'm playing down, gotta let your fingers roll sometimes; otherwise, it takes a lot more work. So the important thing is you know how to alternate fingerings and use them in every scenario you can but sometimes it's better to just let your same finger roll from a higher string to a lower.

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