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May 21, 2007
Thinking Like a String
When playing a stringed instrument, especially a string bass, to make a tone rise, you slide your fingers down the fingerboard. To lower a tone, you slide your fingers up the fingerboard. So to go up go down, and to go down go up. Sometimes what feels like reversing direction is the correct way forward, while plowing ahead only drives you farther back. Sometimes keeping in tune requires thinking like a string.
![[ image: Shades of Bass by one.o.eight ©2007. ]](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y124/tacitus/shadesofbass.jpg)
Posted by Tacitus at May 21, 2007 05:51 PM