Bass Exercises for Beginners (Strength, Stamina, Flexibility, Control)

Struggling to get your stupid dumb fingers to obey you? Try these four stupidly simple beginner bass exercises.

Beginner Exercises - A Variant

If you’re doing the Beginner to Badass course, this lesson would fit after Module 6 or so… but don’t get derailed from your lessons, getting these perfect can take time!

Bass Exercises PDF

Wanna practice the exercises on your own? The PDF has all the tabs + links to the playalong tracks -

Which exercise do you think will help your technique the most?

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Self Control: The ability, while on lesson 5 of module one, not to think that you can have a go at the bass line to Come as you are…
Sadly, not an ability that I appear to possess. My left hand feels like it’s been slammed in a car door.
Still loving every second though :slight_smile:

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Lol, well put, will add to the BassBuzz Heritage Dictionary 5th edition. :slight_smile:

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I find Exercise 2 & 3 much harder to do on the E string than on the G string. It’s gradual, the lower the string, the harder it is to stretch.

Is that to be expected or am I doing something wrong ?

I’ve been through B2B twice so I’m not a total beginner, but I wouldn’t call myself intermediate either.

Makes sense, since your wrist is probably at more of an angle which affects how the fingers move! As long as you feel like you can still make (gradual) progress, it’s okay if your E string threshold is worse than your G string one.

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