Serious Electric Bass question

[jakon]

In the book Serious Electric Bass by Joel DiBartolo: in Chapter 4, there are some shifting exercises. I am not clear what needs to be done. If you don't have the book, this is Exercise 1:

One Note On the D String.

1st finger: 1-2 / 1-3 / 1-4 * 2nd finger: 2-1 / 2-3 / 2-4
3rd finger: 3-1 / 3-2 / 3-4 * 4th finger: 4-1 / 4-2 / 4-3

Then there are four measures of A quarter notes (G string)

Thanks for your help!

[WillPlay4Food]

What Joel is saying is pick a note on the D string. For example, pick G, which is the 5th fret. Now, turn on your metronome and alternate playing the G with first your index finger, then your middle finger (1-2).

Next, alternate playing G quarter notes with your index finger, then your ring finger (1-3). Then alternate playing G quarter notes with your index finger, then your pinky (1-4). Then continue this exercise switching between middle & index fingers (2-1), middle and ring fingers (2-3) and middle and pinky fingers (2-4).

Then do ring & index finger alternations (3-1), ring and middle fingers (3-2) and ring & pinky fingers (3-4). Lastly do pinky index (4-1), pinky middle (4-2), and pinky ring finger (4-3) exercises.

let me know if my explanation isn't clear.

[mVC]

These are shifting exercises and not finger-per-fret.
Start as WillPlay4Food said, pick a note on the any string. Then work with your first finger only and play a shift (play the 5th fret, shift and play 6th fret). Then shift 2 frets away and then 3.

Repeat with each finger, but with fingers 2-3-4 you shift downwards as well (2nd finger ****s down one, then up one and up two frets, etc).

The idea behind this is to get used to shift and can change positions smoothly.

Hope this helps.

[jakon]

Ok thanks, that helps a lot. I'll try to figure out which approach works best for me.