Excersizes for intermediate players.

[AlphaMale]

I'm basically done with all benefit from the chromatic scale excersize can anyone recommend any new ones.

[Mark Wilson]

Major Scales, and modes.
Arpeggios, and all their inversions.
Both one and two octaves.

That'll keep you busy for a good while.

[Plantbrain]

Originally Posted by AlphaMale

I'm basically done with all benefit from the chromatic scale excersize can anyone recommend any new ones.

Blues scales!

And every version you can come up with!

Try mixing techniques with your scales.

Thumb
Double thumb
Double thumb snap(1-2-3 fingers)
Slap
1 finger
2 finger
3 finger
Pick
soft/loud
Tap

Jazz walking lines

Hummm...........I better go take my own advice

Tom

[Sarbecue Boss]

harmonic minor
melodic minor

[AlphaMale]

Actually I've learned all these except for the techniques that one guy listed.
Yeah the arpeggios helped me a lot. I don't really understand double thumb because I Don't know what it is and every video I watch or thread I read just confuses me more. But I've never heard of Double thumb snap...

[Plantbrain]

Originally Posted by AlphaMale

I don't really understand Dumb thumb because I Don't know what it is and every video I watch or thread I read just confuses me more. But I've never heard of Double thumb snap...

You should give this a listen, it applies to you pretty well and might open up many things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXSB0...elated&search=

A good lesson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoHg...elated&search=

snap=pluck

Work on that and you'll be dang good after mastering or even getting 1/2 of these.

Victor is a great teacher.

Tom

[JimmyM]

Diminished and augmented scales are fun, too.

[-Sam-]

Buy a book of Bach's cello suites and play through the preludes and fugues. Awesome stuff.

[Sarbecue Boss]

Originally Posted by Bass_Mule

Buy a book of Bach's cello suites and play through the preludes and fugues. Awesome stuff.

+10000000000000

Better yet, buy a couple of CD's of bach cello suites and learn them by ear

[user101]

don't know about you, but i still do chromatics when i practice. There's always something new to be found. Be creative. It doesn't have to be 1234 all the time.

[Deacon_Blues]

I know a bass ace here who plays simple left and right hand exercises every day for 10 minutes. He says he does it to keep up his technique, which is amazing.

[AlphaMale]

How hard are Bachs songs?

[Deacon_Blues]

Originally Posted by AlphaMale

How hard are Bachs songs?

That's up to you. Nothing's hard when you master it.

I guess I could learn some Bach songs after some practicing, but I don't really have the inspiration to do that....

[AlphaMale]

Well... hard is subjective. But would they be hard for someone who's been playing for a a year?

[user101]

Originally Posted by AlphaMale

Well... hard is subjective. But would they be hard for someone who's been playing for a a year?

no it's definitely not hard. Learning requires patience. Studying is something you do your entire life. Of course you can't expect to pick up a Bach piece today and master it tomorrow. But if you practice a particular piece everyday any average student would be able to play it in a few weeks. Learning to apply what you learn from a piece into your own personal style of playing is what takes forever. Because you will always stumble upon something new.

[doctorjazz]

The Bach stuff I've seen has ranged from intermediate to insane.

[Vlasco]

See if you can find the sheet music for Fugue No. 5 in D Major, that will give you taste of his stuff. It's Andante, so about 60 bpm is good enough to play it properly, not too hard. But you can always speed it up if you want.

[Jismy]

The sheet music for all the suites is right here... http://imslp.org/wiki/Suites_for_Vio...hann_Sebastian) but there's nothing about preludes or fugues

I'm guessing Praeludium=Prelude though.