Learning to play bass involves many hours of study and practice with your instrument. In addition to a smart bass teacher and a good bass method book, you will need volumes of bass studies, also called bass etudes. Exercise books and play-Alongs are helpful in learning the bass also. Remember, you can always call on Lemur Music to find the right bass excerpt book or volume of complete bass parts to enhance your practice.
Primer Scale and Arpeggio Fingerings utilizes open strings, keep shifts to a minimum, and stay in lower positions, usually first, half, or second position when possible, and there is only one fingering for each scale. Click thru to read more about other books in this series.
Miraculous Scale Fingerings includes three fingerings for each scale: two "slow" fingerings and one "fast" fingering. Click thru to read much more about this great book for more advanced players. Dr. Morton's Primer Scale and Apreggio Fingerings was written to prepare inexperienced players for the more "professional" fingerings of the Miraculous fingering books.
Dr. Morton's Torturous Exercises is a collection of thirty extremely demanding "calisthenics" for bass. Click thru to read more about this and other books in the Dr. Morton Series.