Plucking Hand Bass Workout

Ever find yourself fumbling or stumbling over notes because of your plucking hand?

Maybe you know that learning to alternate with your index and middle finger will help you play trickier bass lines, but you just can’t seem to make it work for you…

Maybe it’s that your hands just don’t seem to be very coordinated – like the right hand just refuses to talk to the left – at all…

Maybe you’re transitioning from only using a pick and things just feel ‘wrong’ in your hands… 

Whatever it is though, today I want to share a super cool workout, specifically designed to level up your plucking hand. We’re going to dig in deep and isolate the plucking hand as much as possible.

This won’t be a super dry, unmusical exercise though, so for every level of the workout, there’s a real-life bass line (including one from Paul McCartney) that you can use to level up your mother-pluckin’ plucking hand.

You’ll learn:

• A brilliant concept you can steal from drummers to supercharge your plucking hand’s ‘internal’ coordination
• The three ‘levels’ of this right hand coordination workout and three great bass lines that you can use to apply the exercises to make music immediately
• How to start using your index AND middle finger – if you haven’t already – and if you have you’ll learn how to intentionally supercharge your alternating technique so you’ll be ready for even the trickiest of bass lines

Check out the lesson here:

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I say it a lot in the lesson, but what feels ‘good’ and natural in my hands might not necessarily work for you. That’s why it’s important to actually try these exercises and bass lines for yourself so you can actually experience what it feels like.

To make that as easy as possible for you, the tabs, notation and practice tracks (including the slower versions) are all available as a free download. Just fill out the form above and I’ll send everything to you.

When you work on your ‘internal’ plucking hand and make it coordinated within itself, you’ll have a much easier time getting it to work with your fretting hand. Your fretting hand has to have a similar level of internal coordination, but that’s maybe a subject for another day.

But when they work together, everything becomes easier to play, so I really hope you enjoy the workout and I’m sure it can help.

Good luck with the lesson and happy plucking!

Cheers,