junplugged
Taking the slow road
OMG what did I do?! This thing is huge and hard to play or even hold and I suck at it.
Well - as somebody who did the same thing a while ago, the really important thing is to play, and play and play - ONCE you have the basic setup mastered. Killer things like getting the height right, and then marking the peg so it's always the same, so muscle memory will get the intonation sorted and reliable. Depending on how good you were on electric bass, you should find transition pretty simple - but painful as your muscles in the left hand will be nowhere near strong enough. Play through the pain. Remember the basic rules - as in the limited things your third finger can do. I don't know what kind of music is your favourite - but play along with it worked magically for me. An hour of random popular big band music worked great for me from Spotify. You know the style, the chords and the end result - and you just go for it, and slowly the accuracy gets better, the brain works out the best fingering and your muscles obey your brain. No easy route bar hard work.
Take care of those strings - go price a new set if you need any motivation
I can't offer any advice, but I can offer some congrats. So yeah, Congrats. and good luck.
I love playing bass, but I have zero desire to play double bass.
My favourite thing was getting enamel paint and painting lines on the fingerboard because I'm lazy and want to have the sound of the double bass in some of my songs, not the expertise of playing something I'll only record with.My favorite thing I fall back on is starting on C and walking up from E to G and A back to C in half steps, the standard bluesy gospel sounding thing that could be supporting a C chord or C to G change with that walk up to G just being a walk up to the 5 on a C chord, but I tend to do that a lot
I found that the key was tuning each string on a tuner, then step by step finding each note, painting a marker with enamel paint until I'd reached the bottom of the fingerboard, then remove the strings, paint a nice straight line across, wait 2 days for the paint to dry, restring and re-tune, play around a bit to make sure everything was in tune and fine and dandy and then record that sucker until my neck, back and arms gave way !I found that the real key was root to 5th on first to fourth finger - and once you get that right, the octave falls nicely too
I bestowed the gift of fret markings upon my instrument. She doesn't seem very grateful but at least she does what she's told.amazing that any notes can actually be found with no frets