Why This Exercise?? Usually as bassists, we practice scalar patterns over and over again until they are perfect, but we fail to adequately practice patterns that skip strings. Then when the time comes to play a difficult song that requires string skipping, you have trouble with it and you can't figure out why.
Purpose This exercise is actually very simplistic, but its effects can be awesome on your playing technique. This will help your hands learn how to easily move between any strings.
How to Play this Exercise This first page of this lesson covers a 4-note pattern that jumps across the strings. If you look at the pattern, you'll see that the first 2 measures all originate from the lowest string, and the second 2 measures all originate from the top string. This will give you practice from both directions. As a final note to this page, this pattern can be repeated seamlessly.
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