jeremyr, i checked out that youtube clip. i hear what you mean. by me softening my touch i didnt really mean just playing softer, even though that comes into play. what im trying to achieve is being more sensitive, not just hacking away at a string just to get a note to ring out, but being able to not only hear the differences of playing differently, but feeling them also. noticing how plucking the strings in different ways, with different fingers, holding my hand in a certain position, etc. makes a difference and what that difference is. and i know when im just going at it, i dont take time to pay attention to those things.
robear22 - the organist plays left hand bass (i kinda left it in God's hands for him to stop-long story) and that does happen on the songs where u shouldnt be busy so its simple chord changes, but during the songs where its busier, we're never playing the same line, so i can tend to isolate whats from him and whats from me.