Ouch, or how to turn a double bass accident into an acoustic improvement. Possibly.....

[Happy Jack]

[Beedster]

1 hour ago, Happy Jack said:

Funnily enough I did think of that  

[knirirr]

On 20/12/2025 at 19:09, Beer of the Bass said:

I have two dots on the face on the fingerboard at the octave and a fourth above (where the 12th and 17th frets aren't). Some people are quite scathing about the idea and it tends to get shot down in online discussions, but then a surprising number of better players than me have dots up in thumb position so I'm not going to feel bad about it. It does help me to feel a little more confident in venturing up there, and I'm using the small side dots from a set of guitar dot stickers, so it's neat looking but easily undone. 

 

I have exactly the same, for the same reason, but using little black dots of the sort usually used to cover cameras on laptops. These can only be seen close up.