Lesson 1

	I don’t want to be a teacher on this explanation. I just want to share with you same good exercises that can be useful to you. I won’t tell you chords, major scale and minor scale, others that you should already know! The first is a rhythmic exercise that will help to play on fourth sixteen of the quarter note (pict.1).this is really good to understand the right rhytm of the bass-drum (I work only with the drum on my monitor..) With a metronome, slow tempo ( 70?) play the first exercise, then the second until the fourth; then play only the second and the fourth, then 2 measures of the 1/16 and 3/16 of quarter notes, then a measure, then 2/4, 1/4 on loop. At the end take a chord section and play all moving the notes of the chord forward of 1 and then 3 sixteen. I also wrote 3 examples with different values. The second exercise is really good for the improvisation. Take an easy section of chords (C, a, d, G7) (pict.2) and play all the notes of the chord starting from the third both way. Bass players are obligated for the most, to play starting from the tonic. So this exercise won’t be so easy for everybody!! Then don’t play the tonic and play the ninth. The chord now is in first position. Our section started from C become now e, C7+, F7+, b. Then change chords…use chromatic notes. Do it playing standards….Enjoy!! To you all !! PICT1 PICT2