Bass Exercises 1 of 2

Exercise 1

This bass exercise is easy enough to figure out, even for a beginner, it's just getting your fingers to do what you want them to do.

 G|------------------------1-2-3-4--4-3-2-1---------------------|
 D|-----------------1-2-3-4----------------4-3-2-1--------------|
 A|---------1-2-3-4-------------------------------4-3-2-1-------|
 E|-1-2-3-4----------------------------------------------4-3-2-1|

 
Exercise 2

This bass exercise is basically the same as the first one, apart from you are moving down a fret at a time. When you have played this you want to play it back down like on the first exercise, so you will start on the 10th fret and work your way backwards a fret at a time. E.g. 10, 9, 8, 7 and so on.

 G|--------------------------4-5-6-7--------------------------|  
 D|------------------3-4-5-6--------5-6-7-8-------------------|  
 A|---------2-3-4-5------------------------6-7-8-9------------|  
 E|-1-2-3-4----------------------------------------7-8-9-10---|

 
Exercise 3

The next 3 bass exercises are just alternating between different fingers so your fingers will get used to different possibilities of what different frets to finger.

 G|----------------------1-3-2-4--1-3-2-4-----------------------|
 D|---------------1-3-2-4-----------------1-3-2-4---------------|
 A|--------1-3-2-4-------------------------------1-3-2-4--------|
 E|-1-3-2-4---------------------------------------------1-3-2-4-|

 
Exercise 4

 G|----------------------2-1-3-4--2-1-3-4----------------------|
 D|---------------2-1-3-4----------------2-1-3-4---------------|
 A|--------2-1-3-4------------------------------2-1-3-4--------|
 E|-2-1-3-4--------------------------------------------2-1-3-4-|