so you want to know how to avoid bad
wrist angles when playing the bass
guitar well in this video I'm going to
show you the best tips on hand position
on the bass that way you'll avoid wrist
pain it also help you prevent injury and
allow you to play for longer durations
without feeling pain so here the best
tips on how to avoid wrist angles on the
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get on with the video playing with wrist
angles on the bass is a common thing
you'll see even professionals will
encounter these acute risk angles when
they're playing the bass particularly
with the right hand and then even
sometimes with their their fretting hand
- as well and it's not that you you know
you're gonna be able to avoid it at all
you know 100% of the time
you know sometimes depending on what
type of passage you're playing you might
just encounter a wrist angle thing is
you don't want to be staying at these
these acute angles for a very long time
because what ends up happening is you
end up cutting out you know any sort of
like your nerves end up getting like
pinched here so you'll end up developing
some sort of you know weakness with your
wrists you'll also feel pain you could
get carpal tunnel things like that so
you want to avoid staying in these
prolonged periods of you know what I
call Tyrannosaurus rest Tyrannosaurus
Rex wrists I can't even say it but try
to avoid that and so here's how you can
do that first thing to keep in mind is
the higher your bass is on your body the
less likely you will have a wrist angle
on your fretting hand but the higher
likelihood you'll have a wrist angle
with your plucking hand okay so when the
bass is high you'll you'll see that your
fretting hand is gonna be very relaxed
but your plucking hands can be very bent
and if your bass is very low your
plucking hands can be very relaxed but
your wrists
it's going to be bent so you want to
explore with the height of your bass and
try to strike the best balance that you
can with that the second thing is with
your right hand if you think of your
bass like a flat plane if it's just
sitting on your on your lap I'm going to
turn a little bit to the side so you can
see this if I just were to rest my hand
on the bass like I am sitting at a table
it's gonna be very neutral and this is
this is a pretty good position here okay
and the idea is that you want to have it
feel like this or be in the same type of
position when you bring the base back up
but there's a couple things you should
observe so that you can actually remain
in this position the first thing is
really that this palm is is touching the
base and I'm really talking about like
the base of my my thumb okay and that's
just kind of like I'm not pushing
against the bass but it's just like
touching the surface so that when I go
up I'm keeping this part of my palm
touching you know against the surface
and that's gonna keep my my wrist
neutral second thing is if your thumb
stays anchored on the pic or or a string
when I move to the higher strings
there's a higher likelihood from now my
palm to leave the surface of the bass
so that's gonna cause a wrist angle okay
so you can do what's called the floating
thumb I call it more of a hovering thumb
because I actually don't press against
my strings so I just hover when I play
okay so this is how you can eliminate
wrist angles for your plucking hand okay
the second thing is now for your for
your fretting hand you want to angle
your bass almost like a shotgun and I
call this like a shotgun method so for
instance I'm sitting for instance my
knee is going this direction and let me
try to point towards you so you can kind
of see
how much of an angle we're talking here
so my shoulders are actually flush
against the camera at this time and my
bass is now pointing this way and you
can see that having your bass angled
will keep your wrist neutral even at the
highest positions of the bass okay so
even when I play chords okay now if I
were to bring my elbow back for instance
a lot of people I see play their bass
with their bass flat against their body
when I get to the higher frets it's
really hard to to not or even my lower
frets it's really hard to to not play
with wrist angles so by moving the bass
a little bit forward like a shotgun now
my wrist straightens out okay so explore
the angle of your your bass as far and
what I mean by angle is how far you
point the headstock forward okay and
that will keep your wrist neutral okay
so here the here just that here's a
quick summary again of the things to
keep in mind the higher your bass is on
your body the higher that per bass is on
the body the more relaxed and less
likely you'll have wrist angles with
your fretting hand however you're going
to have you're more likely to have wrist
angles with your plucking hand so you
want to strike that balance with your
plucking hand try to keep this palm
touching the surface of your bass you
don't press against it but you're really
just more like just touching it the
closer this palm is to your bass the
less likely your wrist is going to float
forward and start to bend also explore
floating your thumb string the string
versus keeping it fixed because as it's
fixed the higher strings especially if
you start to play five string or six
string bass the more of a wrist angle
you're going to experience and then as
well for your for your fretting hand
explore with your headstock
you know somewhat forward in front of
the body in more of an angle like a
shotgun so a good way to think about is
the headstock is right directly above my
left knee if you're left-handed then
it'll be on your other knee but for me
the headstock is above my left knee and
that creates this sort of triangle and
it it keeps my my left hand or my
fretting hand very neutral on a
fretboard so I hope this video showed
you some things that you can explore to
avoid bending your wrist when you're
playing the bass guitar now I'd like to
hear from you did I miss anything
or is there anything that you do to you
know maintain your hand position when
you're playing the bass let me know in
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you in the next video so you want to
know how to avoid bad wrist angles when
playing the bass guitar well in this
video I'm going to show you a few simple
tips about hand position on the bass so
you'll avoid a few simple tips about
hand position on the bass guitar that
way you'll avoid wrist pain when playing
the bass that way you'll avoid wrist
pain when playing the bass that way you
avoid wrist pain I mean the bass
