Tabs and Backing Tracks - Fingerstyle Speed Exercise (Patreon)

My fellow bassists, here are the tabs and backing tracks for my latest fingerstyle speed exercises!

This exercise is easier than it looks. We are using a major scale and each scale degree is represented by a number. For example, if we're in F major and play F G A F, that can be represented by 1 2 3 1.

This exercise uses that 1 2 3 1 pattern and then moves it up the scale by one scale degree each time. So that means after F G A F we play G A Bb G, then A Bb C A and so on. Once we reach an octave up, we come back down the scale using the opposite approach (F E D F, then E D C E and so on).

After coming all the way back down to F, we just repeat the same phrase up a half step, and keep doing this 12 times in total, and then bring it back down to finish on F like how we started.

The same rule applies to the 1 7 1 3 exercise but in that one we're using a different pattern. In F major, 1 7 1 3 represents F E F A, and then we move that pattern all the way up and down the scale.

If that doesn't make sense, just forget about it and try to follow along with the tabs! You don't have to know the theory to get the technique benefits!

Let me know if you have any questions at all, have a great weekend and I'll see you in the next lesson!

Charles