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Something that has not been mentioned yet is getting an upright sound out of your electric by using your thumb. Leo originally designed the P bass to be played with your thumb, hence the finger rest, also called a "tug bar", located on the pickguard slightly south of the G string. In those days the P came stock with huge LaBella flat wounds and damping material under the bridge cover. Leo was trying for an upright sound out of the P bass and it was real close with the amps of the day.
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I never knew that. I owned that precision bass for years and never knew that, I had always wondered what it was for. Back in the day, I used a pick, today I use both depending how I feel like picking, or plucking. The bass players I use to know, most dead now, played a slap bass style. that's what they called it, I never really got the hang of slap bass, today I mainly use my fingers, and thumb, occasional a pick.