Powerful Bass Technique Exercise

[greghagger]

If you're familiar with my teaching style, you'll know that I'm not one for promoting the playing of mindless exercises for hours on end. I believe that It's much more constructive and effective to spend the majority of your practice time working on bass lines.

 

But technical exercises do have their place, especially for helping to develop certain aspects of playing technique and for fixing any annoying flaws that we might have.

 

There's one single exercise that has had the most impact on my playing, because it helped me to develop a good fretting hand technique, including sorting out my 'flying pinky' finger!

 

I've lost count of the times that I've recommended this exercise to my one-to-one pupils, so I thought it was high time to set it down in stone in a YouTube lesson, so that you can access it to help with your own playing.

 

It's simple to grasp the concept of this exercise, but I bet that you'll find it harder to play this exercise perfectly! 

 

This is the sort of exercise that you can also use to slowly warm up before each practice session.

 

Check out the exercise in my latest YouTube video by clicking below. You can download the exercise on a free PDF under the video. 

 

Enjoy!