Practice while going through B2B course?

I’ll echo what others have said:

The course is your practice

and add:

But when I get frustrated and need a break… I do a drill I heard the Snarky Puppy bassist describe.

Set the metronome/click to something basic and attainable and just pluck. For minutes on end. Try to have each finger hit with the same intonation, to maintain a steady (unrelenting?) pace.

He doesn’t bother fretting so he can focus on the rhythmic plucking, but my brain loses focus in the drone so I fret single note, holding for a bar or two, then switching, while maintaining the steady plucking.

A couple of mornings of this and I’m cleansed, refreshed, and ready to return to Josh’s finely crafted lesson plans.

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