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Help with climbs?

yeah..."aggressive climb" is not a common musical term, so books won't help...at least not until you can phrase it in more technical terms and look those up.

I assume you mean shifting from one position to another, higher up the neck, without loosing any musical fluidity. This really comes from learning your scales beyond mere one position fingering patterns, and familiarizing yourself with scales over the whole neck. check "PacMan's surefire scale practice method "in the stickies.

Hope that's what you were asking about ;)
 
Thanks for the input. Turned on radio, without listening to the bass part, was able to ad lib some good climbs to the three main chords of "Fortunate Son" by CCR. Guess the trick is to find the tunes condusive to the desired technique.