Right Hand only Exercises?

[damonsmith]

Last night I sliced open my left index finger at the inside bottom - The Flesh was comming out, lots of blood, etc. Anyway I pushed the flesh back in, cleaned it up good and super glued it back together (Better than stiches, they say).

So now I am stuck without my left hand for practice.
I have been working on regular pizz, 3 finger pizz, 3 finger one handed pizz harmonics, Lots of long tones, bow changes and string crossing, even all combinations on my 7 string EUB. I also worked on tremelo, spicatto and stacatto with both German and French Bows.

I have also been trying to get subharmonics on open strings and all posible harmonics from bow placemnt and pressure.
I did some basic subdivisions and polyrhythms with the metronome also.

Anything I am leaving out?

[jsbarber]

The only thing I can think of is pizzicato with your thumb. You get a nice fat tone. Also, I think I saw a video of Red Mitchell playing with his thumb and fingers, like a flamenco guitarist or something; but my memory is a bit fuzzy on that one.

After more thought: The slap technique that Milt Hinton is famour for, and there are some pieces that Teppo Hauta-Aho wrote that I have seen that have pizzicato mixed with finger snaps and taps on the bass/fingerboard. I think they're in a publication called Pizzicato Pieces.

Jim