Thanks

[kesslari]

Thanks for taking time here to write and answer questions.
I met you briefly at Victor Wooten's BNC camp this spring.
The exercises you described there (at least the two that I wrote down and remember) have become standard parts of my practice routine, and my playing is much improved for it.

They were:
1) Groove exercise. Play a groove with a metronome, then cut the time in half while keeping the groove. Then cut the time in half again - go as low (as little metronomic regularity) as the device will let you, while keeping the same groove.

2) Speed exercise. Play a short motif. Rather than just play at speed and bump up the metronome, practice with metronome 3 times at half-speed, then once at full speed.
This has been huge - the number of correctly-played reps that it allows me to get is a big part of it, I think, and the increase in my ability to play at faster tempos has been tremendous.

Thank you for sharing those. Any comments or further enhancements you could recommend would be great.

[adamnitti]

kesslari-

thanks so much for your message and for your kind feedback! i'm thrilled that you found those concepts to be so helpful.

you can also view a column version of those concepts here

[JimmyM]

Great practice tips! Too often, newer bassists who can fly on the neck often have a very hard time with the simple stuff, then they wonder why their phone doesn't ring off the hook with gigs.

BTW, welcome Adam!