Came up with a new bass excersise today (or accidentally came across a pre-existing one) and I thought I'd write it down here, if only to allow myself to remember it!
First you play the ascending half of a scale (minor, major, Dorian, whatever) starting on fret 3 or 5 according to personal comfort. Play this same ascending part of the scale moving up 2 frets each time. After doing this, play the descending half of the scale moving back towards where you started in the same way.
Once you have done this and feel comfortable playing it with different speeds and patterns (triplets, sixteenths etc.), reverse it! Play the descending half starting at where you began and after moving up the fretboard 4 times, play the ascending half moving back up. It's a cool, surprisingly taxing workout, good for improving your concentration, rhythm, speed and fretboard fluency. Well, wrote that in a pretty rambling style but at least it (kind of) makes sense to me! =D
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