Chord studies

[dblbass]

Hi Janek,

I picked up "chord studies for the electric bass" by rich applemann last week and I've been working through the first few excersises in it. I've been starting at 40 bpm and working my way up to about 125 bpm. Is this how you would work through these excersises? What should I be thinking about as I'm playing them?

Thanks
Joey

[Chrispurchase]

You may want to ask this in the general instruction forum too, I'd be interested to see what others say about the book & how to approach it.

[janekbass]

I think you should be thinking about making music, and creating melody. Exercises can get you only so far within music... and it's the creative freedom that having good technique will give you, that should be the focal point when practicing in my opinion. It's just about getting the language of music to be as natural as your native spoken language whatever that might be. And then it's just a question of how much you have to say that's interesting to other people to listen to.....

Easy,

Janek