Anything wrong with bending on a bass?

[Kane Knight]

As in bending strings, not tying the thing in knots or anything.

[Just John]

Nah, as long as it sounds good, thats all that matters, its all good as far as that goes. Experiment with it.

[Kane Knight]

I was just worried with physical damage. People have inundated me with things NOT to do with a bass.

[Silent]

You worried about damaging the strings or the hardware that holds it? I don't think unless you are bending them like a foot away from the bridge, that you can do much damage, the strings are meant to take a beating. :p

[Kane Knight]

Yeah, more the bridge and nut and such.

[mitchables]

I bend 'em all the time and in the 5 years I've played, I've only broken a handful of strings. :-\

[Silent]

I bend the strings a lot on my fretless and I haven't broken any strings yet. :p

[Kane Knight]

I bend 'em all the time and in the 5 years I've played, I've only broken a handful of strings. :-\

You know, it's funny. In my first year of playing, I snapped two E strings. That wasn't even doing anything fancy. That was playing single notes, using my thumb. It was either a shitty bass (It was borrowed) or I was using too much force. Since then, I've not had an issue, but I'm always a bit amazed how rarely strings break on a bass, since I broke two so close together.

However, it's not the strings I'm worried about.