practice schedule

[marcopalla]

Hi,
now I'm practiceing harder, so I'd like to know how do you practice, what you do, and to share my method

I've seen that if I have a schedule or a chart I do better and more profitable, so I've done it:

WarmUp
1234-4321 all the neck
some left hand permutations of this all over the neck (if U don't understand click here)
scale in 1/4 then 1/8 then 1/16 from 40 to 130 bpm
different positions, different scales, 1-2 octaves,
triads...
...

Rhytm and tempo
solfeggio practice (no bass)
rhytmic solfeggio on bass
reading music excercises on bass
dx hand speed alternating excercises
ghost notes exercises
play with cd long songs (blues ones or jazzy ones, to learn big structures)

Solo and Slap
is difficult to explain wath I do mainly pop slap & solos....

(hear training
sometimes I do exercises to develop it, I've a software to do it.)

Improvisation, jam
with band in a box or cd base

repertoir
work on my best difficult song, starting on trascribing first part and then play, so for every part.
work on my band songs
work on a song I like that I know or a new one with midi arrangment or with cd

NB: all metronome on (not for repertoir)
I've a file folder to collect all these divided into sections (warmup, slap and solo.....)

it thakes 2 - 3 hours but also 1 if i go speedy

I'd like to add some parts from your methods!!
(if you like the idea I can post some excercises so we can share them??)

peace,
m.

[mkettner]

I like your schedule. I do something similar, but I am very cauntious of keeping my time divided in thirds.

First third is Warm up and drills - I do this to loosen up my fingers
Second third is working on other peoples songs - I.E. Greenday, System of a Down and stuff like that.
Last third is my own stuff - This is where I like to get creative and take what I did in the second section and apply it to my songs with my personal twist.

That is just the way I do it, but I love the system you have layed down. You will improve quickly.

[iplaybassguitar]

probably one of the best practice schedules ive ever seen...includes pretty much everything..

nice job

i might be stealing parts of that for myself