Strumming Exercise 1 - Tabs and Backing Tracks (Patreon)

My fellow bassists,

I've been seeing a lot of comments asking for some tips / exercises on strumming, so here's an exercise for you!

To strum down, use your wrist and flick your fingers outwards. The nails on your middle and ring fingers should make contact with the strings indicated in the tabs. For eighth-note strums you can just strum down on all of them.

To strum up, just rotate your wrist back to the starting position and pop the G string with your middle finger, similar to how you do it when you slap but maybe a little lighter. For 16th-note strums you'll need to use double strumming (strum down and strum up).

As always, let me know if you have any questions about this and I'll make sure to get back to you ASAP! Also, I haven't forgotten about the winner of this month's poll which was using music theory to create bass lines / solos, but I've been traveling recently and haven't had the time to do it justice. Hopefully I can get that done for you in the next couple of weeks!

Thanks for coming here and practising with me, have a great day and I'll see you in the next lesson!

Charles