Hi bass players i hope you guys are alright
and welcome to his video wich is the first part of a series of video where i will be presenting you many fingering exercises
in this first video all the exercises are oriented to begginers
but intermediate bass players can find some useful information in this video
The target of most bass players is to play fast
but we must take notice that to achieve that level of skill ,first we need to work on 2 points
the first point is the precision and the second is the strenght
with precision i mean that we must play the frets of the bass in a specific place to get a good sound out of it
and with strength i mean that we must press the strings with a enough good level of force in order to make them sound good
for example if we play a fast lick or phrase
each one of this movements must be executed with flawless precision and with enough strength in order to get a good sound out of our bass
so we the exercises that we are going to learn in this video we are going to work our precision and our strenght on the left hand
and with the right hand we are going to work two points, first we a re going to pluck the strings using this 2 fingers
always in an alternated way
sometimes happens, and it is normal (at least it happens to me) that we pluck the string twice with the same finger
but we must focus on avoiding this and keep this pattern
the second point that we are going to work on and that i had explain in the previous video is the floating thumb technique
So let us start with the first exercise
This exercise that is very simple and the everybody knowns
but i want to explain it because a have seen a lot of beginners bass players which play it in a wrong way for example
in tis example we can see and listen
that the notes are sounding very short
and besides that the point of this exercise which is to strengthen our left hand is being totally dumped
in order to independice the fingers of the left hand we need to have good flexiblility on them and besides that with need to have strong fingers
and by playing this exercise in the wrong way we will be losing any benefit that we can get from it
so the right way to play is this one
first we must play every note with our finger pressing the strings right before the frets
and second we ar egonna play it in this way
we are gonna play the first fret with the index finger
and without releasing the pressure on the index finger we are gonna play the second fret with our middle finger
and without releasing the pressure on the middle finger we are gonna play the third fret with our ring finger
and without releasing the pressure on the ring finger we are gonna play the fourth fret with our pinky finger
so we will have this exercise
by playing this exercise keeping the pressure of the finger right before we will be strengthening our left hand in an efficient way
we are going to play this exercise in this way
adn we keep going across the fretboard
this exercise and all the exercises that we are going to see in this video we will play them through the whole fretboard
another thing is that all this exercises must no be played focusing on speed, we must focus on strengthen our left hand and play them with good technique
this exercise and any fingering exercise can be very exhausting for our hand
if you are playing and you get to that point where your hand hurts a lot, stop for a moment shake your hand so it can relax
and when you feel your hand rested get back to practice
when it comes to fingering exercises the rule "no pain no gain" does not apply
if you are practicing for long time and you are feeling a lot of pain and discomfort in your hand the better choice is to stop playing
and resume your playing later of the next day (sometimes you need to rest 2 or 3 days)
because if you keep playing even though you are feeling a lot of pain what you are gonna gain is an injury on the ligaments of your hand
well once we master this ascending movement
we are going to play the exercise in a descending way
in this case we are going to start with the pinky finger and we are gonna play it this way
in this previous exercise we kept the pressure of the fret righ before
in this exercise we can not do that, but what we can do is to keep the pressure of the fret that we play first until we play the next one
in this way we also be Strengthening our left hand
and we keep playing through the whole fretboard
once we mastered this 2 exercises (ascending and descending way) we are going to combined them
first we are going to play in the ascending way and then we are going to come back in the descending way
and we keep playing through the whole fretboard
now that we have mastered this exercise with are going to play a variation of it
we are gonna play in an ascending way but as we move through the strings we a re gonna move one fret up
and when we get to this point we will come back in the descending way
and we keep playing through the whole fretboard
once we mastered this exercises let us continue with this one
like the exercises we see before with are gonna play the first fret of the G string with the index finger and right after we are gonna play the second fret with the middle finger
but we are going to do this 2 times (keeping the pressure on the index finger)
then without releasing the pressure of the middle finger we will play the third fret with the ring finger 2 times
then without releasing the pressure of the ring finger we will play the fourth fret with the pinky finger 2 times
so we got this exercise
and we keep playing through the whole fretboard
next let us play another exercise this time we are gonna change things a little bit
we are gonna play the first fret of the G string with our index finger
and without releasing the pressure of the index finger we are gonna play the third fret with our ring finger
then we release this 2 fingers and we play the second fret with the middle finger
and without releasing the pressure of the middle finger we are gonna play the fourth fret with the pinky finger
so we got this exercise
next we are gonna play this exercise in a descending way
we are gonna play the fourth fret with our pinky finger
next we play the second fret with our middle finger
and without releasing the pressure of the middle finger we are gonna play the third fret with our ring finger
next we release this 2 finger and we play the first fret with the index finger
so we got this exercise
once we have mastered this exercise both ascending and descending way let us combined them and we will get the next exercise
and to finish let us play a variation of this exercise, just like the previous exercise
we will be moving through the strings in an ascending way and as we keep moving we will move up one fret
and when we get to this point we will go back in a descending way
well friends this has been all for the moment, i thank you a lot for watching this video
and i hope that it has been useful to you
if it was i ask you the favor to give a thumbs up, share it and subscribed to my channel
in the next video i will be presenting to you more fingering exercises
once again thanks a lot and see you next time
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