Hi Y'all,
Just thought a I'd share something I've been going over to get the strength in my pinky up to scratch. I came from playing guitar and due to the my giant hands, never needed to use my pinky but on a full scale bass it's a little trickier (still fairly easy to be lazy), so to get rid of a bad old habit, I developed this.
VERY simple but I prefer to it the old "1,2,3,4" as if you get a nice rythm, it can sound quite musical.
Repeat this pattern till your left arm (right for you southpaws)
begins to ache.
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A|---8-9-11---8-9-11---------11-12-14---11-12-14---------6-7-9---6-7-9-------4-5-7---4-5-7------
E|-9--------9--------9-11-12---------12----------12-11-7-------7-------7-9-5-------5-------5-7-9--
I was using a pick, but i'm now using this to build speed in my fingerstyle.
feel free to move it up a string or two for variation.
Hope it helps
A (VERY) Simple Walking Exercise 
