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Essential Beginner Bass Technique Exercise – 3 Patterns To Rule EVERYTHING!

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Here’s a simple beginner bass guitar exercise that you can use to test your fretting hand technique. It’s great for beginners, especially those of you that feel you’re lacking in hand size or general left hand mobility.
We’ll look at 3 simple patterns that you’ll see in every bass line, scale and arpeggio you ever play. They’re EVERYWHERE!!

Lesson materials: https://www.talkingbass.net/essential-beginner-bass-technique-exercise/

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:12 The 3 Patterns
1:35 Pattern 1
2:34 Fretting Hand Technique
7:46 Picking Hand Technique
10:30 Building Speed
12:29 Pattern 2
13:03 Pattern 3
13:38 Moving Around The Fretboard
17:16 Patterns In Application

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