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Workshop Resources For The Love of Tone (Gift for you in the end)
Tool 1 – No Tool
“Music Theory for the Bass Player” page 6
(Saying note names up and down a string, using sharps, flats, doubles; say half steps, whole steps, thirds etc ) Do this at traffic lights, for example
Tool 2 – Technique – Warm up the Fingers
Permutation exercises: download below
PERMUTATION VARIATIONS
Tool 3 – Principles of Rotating Attention – Warm up the Mind
Ari’s “PORA” Technique
Tool 4 – The “Note Finder Exercise”
“Music Theory for the Bass Player” Notefinder exercise page 12 and 13
Tool 5 – Pedals
I am linking to my personal favorites below. Please make buying at your local music store your first choice, whenever possible.
Delay Pedal – using the hocket delay setting
Tool 6 – “Pedaling”
Great for scales. Play the root (or fifth) in between each scale note
4+4 and 3+3+2 patternsare great to start
Tool 7 – Playing to tracks/with others
irealPro/Background tracks/Transcribe! Mac/ Transcribe Win (to transpose back ground tracks)/a buddy
Tool 8 – “Groove and Fill”
Groove a bar/fill a bar. Great shape to start with: “Big Box/Little Box” for the minor pentatonic.
Tool 9 – The Cycle and the Diatonic Cycle
Here is a back ground track for a major diatonic cycle in the key of G: Diatonic Cycle in G major 1-4-7-3-6-2-5-1
Also check out Beautiful Practice in Major and Minor. (accompanying PDFs there)