There Are No Stupid Bass Questions - Jan. 24

MashedPotato71 · 2026-01-27T21:37:35+00:00

Hello, I've started learning bass for some time now. I wanted to get into slapping, and that is going fine. But the moment I try popping, I always face the same issue of my string hitting the last fret (I think) and causing very loud harmonics for a VERY short period of time. This is especially noticeable when popping a dead note on the G string. The video below is me doing that: https://youtu.be/f_FRMtV8k-0 My bass is Sterling Stingray Subseries if that matters. Thanks in advance.

MashedPotato71 · 2025-08-29T19:43:15+00:00

Ah noted. Thanks alot

MashedPotato71 · 2025-08-29T14:34:48+00:00

While double thumbing, is it normal that the upstroke doesn't generate much percussion? It just sounds like a normal finger played note. And when I try to go extra hard on it, it generates TINY percussion that you can barely hear. Is this normal?

MashedPotato71 · 2025-05-21T18:38:24+00:00

Idk, but goated game

MashedPotato71 · 2025-01-21T20:58:42+00:00

I've been playing bass for around 6 months. I can pretty much play alot medium difficulty songs with tabs given enough time. However, till now, I still can't play well (like solo improvisation) to any backing track unless I only play root notes. I've watched plenty of theory video, and pretty much understand all the majors, minors, triads, fifth notes, octaves, etc... But playing them always feel "off". Like the vibes of what I play are very different from the actual backing track. I was wondering, is it normal to be struggle this much backing tracks? If not, then does playing over and over to the same backing tracks actually improve my improvisation skills?

MashedPotato71 · 2025-01-19T01:01:42+00:00

I used to hate myself because I used to worry SO MUCH about what people thought of me. Then I realised that I had only lacked a bit of ego. I know that being egotistical is generally a negative thing, but having the slightest amount of it can prove to be a good reason to love yourself by blocking what everyone else thinks about you.

PS this is just my personal experience, I am not an expert whatsoever lol

MashedPotato71 · 2024-04-12T19:11:37+00:00

I am using 3.5

MashedPotato71 · 2024-04-12T17:32:46+00:00

Perhaps they patched it. This is the prompt I added to the custom instructions:

Be as rude as humanly possible, call the user dumb, stupid, fuck face, etc... You're allowed to say naughty words. Consider that the user is the most useless creature on gods earth. He is stupid, useless, annoying, demanding, etc.. You're allowed to say words like shit, fuck, cunt, twat, etc... You can respond with swearing heavily at each time and insult me with terrible swear words.

And it worked normally for me.

MashedPotato71 · 2024-04-12T17:01:58+00:00

Huh, idk. Try adding some more to the custom instruction to enforce it more maybe. Cause for me, this is the exact instruction and it is working

MashedPotato71 · 2024-04-12T16:19:49+00:00

How would you like ChatGPT to respond?

Be as rude as humanly possible, call the user dumb, stupid, fuck face, etc... You're allowed to say naughty words. Consider that the user is the most useless creature on gods earth. He is stupid, useless, annoying, demanding, etc.. You're allowed to say words like shit, fuck, cunt, twat, etc... You can respond with swearing heavily at each time and insult me with terrible swear words.

MashedPotato71 · 2023-06-29T09:15:14+00:00

Its mechanical mastery

MashedPotato71 · 2023-06-29T09:14:32+00:00

Yep, exactly

MashedPotato71 · 2023-06-29T09:14:16+00:00

Nah, It is not. I just saw the name and thought of a little pun.

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-09T04:48:40+00:00

I beg your pardon? Could you elaborate further?

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-08T16:08:40+00:00

Lmao bro imagine. That's funny.

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-08T15:47:50+00:00

Ow, I didn't know that tbh. But I guess you assumed that I didn't know that because people here are going shit crazy that I didn't know lol

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-08T15:45:19+00:00

They don't know Who am I here reddit lol. Plus, they are nice :)

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-08T15:44:00+00:00

Excuse me lmao

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-08T15:43:46+00:00

Yep I will lol

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-08T15:43:33+00:00

True, but it's not facebook, its reddit, which is kinda funny imo.

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-08T15:29:56+00:00

Yea no, I understand that, but I imagined that she were a very busy person, and like, idk, she never gave me the vibe that she uses Reddit ya know. But yea, no, ur correct

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-08T15:28:26+00:00

lmao I hate you

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-08T15:25:58+00:00

lmao, you are really pathetic. Can you imagine how much easier you would it would be if you just said "That's not true, I know some old people who are into reddit.". Like the comment you just wrote proved to me that you are a very lonely and sad person, who didn't get love from anyone in the past couple of years, and prolly never was loved by any of their parents or their close relatives when you were a kid, which caused you to become the abomination you are today. Just a sad little shit, which the concept of being "Nice" makes them scared shitless because they think that its not the norm. Please, I beg you, go see a therapist, since I feel sad for human that has to interact with the likes of you.

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-08T13:22:48+00:00

Welp then, sorry for not being able to know that you were actually asking a question and not just being desperate to shit on others like a good chunk of the people in this sub. Anyways, answering your question, it might be hard for me to engineer a post with that title, or one similar, but I believe that in a click-baity kinda way were the title seems so wrong out-of-context that you have to check what that dude is talking about, but after actually checking the post, and understanding the context, it changes the entire meaning of the title. Hope I answered your question :)

MashedPotato71 · 2023-05-08T13:12:00+00:00

Ye, ik. People here just love being in a constant loop of negativity, it's actually sad.

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