Do You Need Long Fingers To Play Bass? @joshfossgreen

Uploaded July 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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On this episode of Mythbusters…. wait no, wrong show. Anyway, today I’ll try answer a question I get a lot: do you need long fingers or big hands to play bass?

A lot of students ask me about this, maybe because my fingers are particularly long (I’m 6’7” and my hands are big!). They’re worried that they won’t be able to follow my lessons or even play the instrument because their hands aren’t the same size as mine.

I hope after watching this video, you’ll realize that it doesn’t matter if you have small hands in most cases, it’s about how you use them. If you have the inspiration and the willpower to learn an instrument, physical limitations can’t stop you!

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$Improve Your Groove with this Rhythm Subdivision Exercise BECOME A BASS BADASS: https://www.bassbuzz.com/lessons/beginner/?ref=2 If you’re struggling to play rhythmic patterns that incorporate multiple rhythms, it’s time to improve your groove! I learned this subdivision exercise in college many years ago, and it helped me to build the “muscle” of dividing a pulse accurately in various musical ways. Most of the rhythms people have a hard time with are “subdivisions,” meaning smaller than one beat. In order to play these rhythms accurately, you need to be able to feel different fractional divisions of the beat. The only way I know of to get this feel is to do it over and over! And this exercise is a great starting point for your practice. The basic exercise is as follows: Turn on a metronome, quarter note = 60 beats per minute. On an open string, play a bar of eighth notes (2 notes per beat), a bar of eighth note triplets (3 notes per beat), a bar of 16th notes (4 notes per beat), then back to triplets for a bar, and then back to eighth notes. Each subdivision should be EVENLY dividing the beat into however many components. Variations: - Spend less time on each subdivision. Switching faster makes it harder - Subdivide all the way from 16ths to pentuplets, sextuplets, septuplets, and 32nd notes. This is about as far as beats are ever subdivided in the music most of us listen to, so if you can nail this version of the exercise you’re doing great. - Try adding some notes instead of just playing an open string. This might help you contextualize what you learn more easily Have fun! http://patreon.com/joshfossgreen http://joshfossgreen.com/onlinebasslessons Josh Fossgreen is endorsed by TC Electronic and Hipshot http://tcelectronic.com/ http://www.hipshotproducts.com/$

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