Awesome Fingerboard Shifting Exercise (L#152)

As bass players we’re constantly playing up and down the fingerboard and changing positions as our bass lines, grooves and solos dictate. One of the most common mistakes I see students make time and time again when making these fingerboard shifts or going for larger jumps on the fingerboard is where their attention is focused at the exact moment of the shift.

Most of the time players are so consumed with what their fretting hand is doing, that when shifting to a new position they’re still focused solely on their fretting hand - and not where they’re about to shift to. This is exactly what leads to floppy shifts, landing on the wrong finger, and more often that not even landing on the wrong fret!

In this lesson I’m going to get laser focused on this topic and give you an awesomeexercise to break this bad habit for good!

As always, see you in the shed…

Scott :)