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Bass Fitness - An Exercising Handbook: Updated Edition!: Now Including Bonus 5-String Section! (Guitar School)
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(Guitar School). The purpose of this book is to provide the aspiring bass player with a wide variety of finger exercises for developing the techniques necessary to succeed in today's music scene. It can also play an important role in a bass player's daily practicing program. The 200 exercises are designed to help increase your speed, improve your dexterity, develop accuracy and promote finger independence. Recommended by world-acclaimed bass players, music schools and music magazines, this is thFirsthand experiences
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Discussed in Playing Bass Wrong in the TalkBass community
Plain Old Barry
An exercise that's helped me much over the years goes as follows: - fret a note on the lowest string with your first finger - leave the first finger down, fret the next fret up with the second finger - leave the first two down, use the third to fret the next - with all three down, play the fourth note with you pinky - leave ... ... more
SloFingers
^^ This is a much better description than my pisspoor attempt! . ... more
Discussed in Learning songs : a good way enough too make progress ? in the TalkBass community
hrodbert696
I think you can learn a lot by learning songs, especially if they're challenging and you take the time to learn what the original bassist was actually doing. That said, there's ... ... more
JForest
I had a long period of time when I played guitar that was only theory + exercises. I developped a huge technique and a lots of theory knowledge that was usefull to improvise on ... ... more
Discussed in A guitarist trying to talk bass in the TalkBass community
Knavery
It sounds like your bass player needs to mainly work up his motor skills, his speed, and using different fingers. I often fall into the trap of practicing those aspects TOO MUCH and not actually playing any music. But it's very important. Maybe he could use something like the below. But as others have said, treat him as ... ... more
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