exercise for rolling 4ths on adjacent strings

[le-gasp]

hey,

so im sort of struggling with my left hand technique, does anyone have a good exercise for practicing rolling 4ths on adjacent strings, if you dont know what i mean ill tab it out

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i tried practicing just the same thing but its kind of mindless, and i know practicing aint always supposed the most exciting but does anyone have any suggestions

Thanks,

Jake

[Skitch it!]

One finger rolling? I practise the major scale in 4th's, it's a tricky technique, flatter left hand shape, sometimes I'll use my index and middle on the left, usually not though, quick pentatonic's in 4'ths is nice for an open type Jaco sound ; )

Nice awkward one is chromatic, root then fourth below, drop a fret and play the 4'th of the next root then hit it's root next, then drop to the next root and repeat, anon, 4 note span, one finger per fret, so you exercise the roll on all fingers in one hand position.

Ascend/descend, drop to next strings and continue etc.

[le-gasp]

thanks for your reply, those sound great, major scale is pretty obvious but could you possibly tab out the chromatic one? i dont really get it lol

[Skitch it!]

Your pinky on the 9th fret of the G string (note=E) , play the note, next note is 9th fret of the D string with pinky (ala roll) play, drop to 8th fret of the D string to your ring finger, play the note, then roll to the 8th fret of the G string, play, then drop to 7th fret of the G with your middle, use the pattern above, (your assigning a finger per root and it's 4th), get down to your index, then swap down strings, move your pinky to the 10th fret of D, play the 4th below (10th fret A string), slide hand down 1 fret back on pinky for 9th fret A string for the rest of the pattern, rundown chromatically to keep the exercise continuous, (when you run-out of postion, reverse and ascend back the way you came, backwards, any good to ya? : )

It's more just a pattern exercise, be-bop if fast enough ; )

[Jim Campbell]

Originally Posted by le-gasp

hey,

so im sort of struggling with my left hand technique, does anyone have a good exercise for practicing rolling 4ths on adjacent strings, if you dont know what i mean ill tab it out

--8---8---8----------
----8---8---8--------
------------------
------------------

i tried practicing just the same thing but its kind of mindless, and i know practicing aint always supposed the most exciting but does anyone have any suggestions

Thanks,

Jake

inside your major scale there are intervals that you could use for practice with different fingers ie; 3 to 6,2 to 5, 5 to 1,7 to 3,1 to 4 ,6 to 2.....i like to jump around the fretboard saying the names of the notes out loud as i go.....start a 5 1 3 6 7 3 and work out as many variations in as many positions with emphasis on moving smoothly

[sleeplessknight]

Try playing melodies that have a lot of 4ths in them. "Freedom Jazz Dance" is a great one, IMHO...