Tabs and Backing Tracks - Fingerstyle Ghost-Notes Exercise (Patreon)

My fellow bassists,

The winner of this month's poll was funky fingerstyle exercises, so here's the first one! This exercise focuses mostly on practising ghost notes, which are an essential part of many funk bass lines.

There's quite a lot of syncopation in this one, so you might want to look through the tabs first and try playing some of the more complicated sections before you play along with the whole video/track.

Also, I tend to use some raking to play those groups of three ghost notes starting at bar 17 - feel free to do the same or use alternate fingering in the right hand throughout the entire exercise - up to you!

As always, let me know if you have any questions or comments and I'll make sure to respond ASAP. Thanks for coming here and practising with me, have a great weekend and I'll see you in the next lesson!