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500 EXERCISES FOR ELECTRIC BASS
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- COORDINATION
- STRING SKIPPING
- RIGHT AND LEFT HAND TECHNIQUE
- SPEED
- ARPEGGIOS
- SCALES
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- Preface - 4
Short biography - 6
- Exercises for the left hand - 8
Left hand stretching - 21
The legato - 22
Enlargements - 22
- Right hand exercises - 23,
Ghost Notes - 26
String skipping - 32
Various rhythmic subdivisions - 33
Dynamics - 38
The 'staccato' - 39
Accents - 39
- Exercises on triads and arpeggios - 43
Inverse and voicings - 47
Ninth Arpeggios - 52
Eleventh Arpeggios - 53
Thirteenth Arpeggios - 53
- Major scales and modal scales - 54
- Pentatonic and blues scale - 63
- Harmonic minor scale and modal scales - 65
- Melodic minor scale and modal scales - 71
- Whole tone scale - 77
- hw and wh diminished scales - 80
- The Walking Bass - 83
I V=1 (Major) - 84
I= V=1 (minor) - 85
'Scalar' approach - 86
Chromaticisms - 86
Walking on 2 chords per bars - 87
Playing a standard (part 1) - 89
Typical Rhythmic Variations - 90
Playing a BluesiJazz - 91
Walking on Static Chords - 91
Playing a Standard (Part 2) - 92
- Miscellaneous Insights - 94
Patterns - 95
‘Arpeggios on the tritone - 96
Intervals - 97
Coordination - 97
Hammer on and Pull off (Legato) - 99
Fretboard fluidity - 101
Chords on bass - 103,
Open’ chords - 106
"Double stops" - 106
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