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[quote name='mhuk' post='49873' date='Aug 23 2007, 11:51 PM']What's OFPF?[/quote]

One Finger Per Fret

My book started off with 4 fingers covering 3 frets which is apparently comfortable to get a good groove going, but now I'm trying to look at some of the scales and exercises spanning accross 4 frets, it's a bit of a stretch.

The book talks about pivoting your hand slightly. I guess I just need lots of practice...



Mr Foxen. I'm in Stapleton, but am in Kingswood quite often. I'll send you a PM and hopefully we can set something up. Cheers!

Pete

Hi All

Just wanted to register and say hi, as I've been lurking here for some weeks and really appreciate some of the good information to be found.

I'm a sax player by trade, currently playing in a Bristol based 14 piece funk, soul, blues band (www.bringdownthehouse.org) but have found myself strangely drawn to the lower frequencies. (Possibly a sign is that I started on alto sax in the band 5 years ago and now play tenor and bari for them )

Anyway, I picked up a second hand bass earlier in the year and am teaching myself using the Hal Leonard books to start with. I am looking to get some lessons starting in the next couple of months, so if anyone has good recommendations for bass teacher in the Bristol area, please let me know.

I'm currently struggling with OFPF fingering. It's a bit of a stretch!! Any reccomendations to make this easier?

Gear is curently an SSD NS4 through a Roland Cube 100.

My aim at the moment is to get out and play my first gig on bass by March 2008

Cheers

Pete