Improve Your Pinky Finger Strength With This Killer Bass Lick!

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This week we're looking at a short and simple bass riff that should help with getting your ring and pinky fingers moving. The weak pinky finger seems to be a universal problem for beginner to intermediate players. The pinky finger is always the weakest finger and then the ring finger is a close second.
The bass exercise will build dexterity and mobility in both fingers.
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@talkingbasslessons 3 жыл бұрын

Lesson Material: www.talkingbass.net/improve-your-pinky-finger-strength-with-this-killer-bass-lick/

@joannmannello9158 3 жыл бұрын

I like it! def will try it

@aungyelin959 3 жыл бұрын

My pinky is stronger than ring finger How to improve ring finger? plz help

@IconOfSin 3 жыл бұрын

2:10 straight to the exercise

@andyoaf 3 жыл бұрын

These are the kinds of things that should be in every beginners course but normally aren't. Probably why I subscribe to Talking Bass :-)

@deblynne9440 9 ай бұрын

I'm 56 and brand new, have never played a string instrument. Started doing this drill about a week ago and literally play about 10 minutes a day and not even every day. Couldn't play the pinky note without it buzzing for the life of me. Thought maybe my hands were too small but really it was reach! And the reach suddenly started improving after a handful of days. Don't give up on this! I can't believe how much better it's getting and I'm really glad I stuck with it. Thank you for the video!

@brandocalrissian88 3 жыл бұрын

This is my “Last Resort” for my pinky. Thank you Mark for this awesome exercise!

@26Feathers 3 жыл бұрын

Hah I really thought he was gonna play the last resort intro

@blahanger4304 3 жыл бұрын

Isn't this cello thingy from bach?

@och70 3 жыл бұрын

In addition to its intended purpose of making the ring and pinky fingers stronger, the riff just sounds cool. Walking it up and down the neck from low frets to high frets and back down again, with a few repeated patterns randomly thrown in, is really fun once you get it up to speed. Great stuff, as always, man!

@brianandkatieyaniak5951 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for helping with my pinky power it was a big problem when my dad wanted me to start bass.

@ganseysean8901 3 жыл бұрын

I love talking Bass my pinky is so strong and flexible now

@jimlloyd1854 2 жыл бұрын

I do have a challenge ahead... arthritic left thumb, at the wrist. That 'proper thumb position' will be elusive for me. I currently am using the pad of the thumb on the back of the neck, to get around thumb pain.

@bassforkids4504 3 жыл бұрын

I can't hold my thumb and fingers in the suggested position without wrist pain. I need to point my thumb more toward the head stock and my fingers at an angle and flatter to the frets.I broke my left pinkey many years ago and it healed bent towards the ring finger and not quite as strong. I make it all work though.

@unfunnydave5485 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as always. This helped me a lot

@swayme67 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, thank you so much.

@wickeduploads 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for your videos

@JacquesS89 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mark. Great advice, as usual...

@b.1677 Жыл бұрын

Your lessons make so much sense and are easy to understand. Thank you!

@dontuttle 3 жыл бұрын

Super useful. Thanks!

@albibros87 3 жыл бұрын

What a great video, as soon as I read the title I picked up the bass to practice, thank you Mark!

@thomaswise7788 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic exercise for strengthening the pinky and improving dexterity. This will be in my toolbox. Mark you’ve done it again!

@LAMIREMY1 3 жыл бұрын

great exercise, as usual! thanks Mark

@Brett.Williams365 3 жыл бұрын

Great riff and lesson. Thank you, Mark.

@valariegregory1651 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing

@bassbuffricky 3 жыл бұрын

This is the best pinky training excercise on the entire web. I already knew the tune, absolutely beautiful. :)

@nemanjamilosevic2739 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@CarlosRoberto-os9bs 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you !!

@drewwood6264 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark! Great exercise

@YoHD 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely. Thank you.

@BillParslow 3 жыл бұрын

Terrific, thanks! Glad I bought the course!

@midplanewanderer9507 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, okay, _these_ are the kind of finger exercises I really dig, because it's musical. That's really cool, Mark!

@paultraynorbsc627 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@bassistR61 3 жыл бұрын

also said before Thank you Mark for this awesome exercise

@brianengquist2110 3 жыл бұрын

Really useful exercise. Thanks!

@oscarsanchez1098 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff, subscribing!

@olafbrome2602 3 жыл бұрын

Great exercice, simply laid out. Thanks. I send this right now to a friend.

@joesmith-wc5qh 3 жыл бұрын

This fella is amazing

@robertthurman9866 3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@chomusic 2 ай бұрын

Great lesson, even for an old-timer like me.

@alexarrese3905 3 жыл бұрын

Fantabulous exercise for the 3rd and 4th fingers!!!!! Thank you Master!!! :-)))

@realbigmic 3 жыл бұрын

Great lesson.. was struggling very quickly 🤪…work to do 🙏🙏

@thomasfioriglio 3 жыл бұрын

Another fantastic exercise. Thanks Mark! I keep going into these thinking I won’t get much out of them or they are too complicated and then I try them and I can do them and learn a bit too. Hmm ya think I would have figured that out by now. That’s why Mark is the best!

@earthling273 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for all the great tutorials. I personally am still having a difficult time using the pinky finger on the higher frets like the 12th fret and upwards. Especially on the E string.

@colancampbell6663 3 жыл бұрын

Good that.

@j.-m.b. 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect timing for me with this video! I managed to hurt my pinky quite badly 4 weeks ago with a kitchen knife, I was really looking forward for this kind of exercise in order to rebuild a few pinky muscles as it is slowly healing...

@naturalfinish 3 жыл бұрын

Here’s where 25 years of guitar playing helped my newfound bass playing, my pinky and ring finger was already plenty strong. The pinky can’t hide on the guitar

@kohl2339 3 жыл бұрын

cool

@patrickdehertogh2080 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. Without getting into the particulars of why I'm such a bad bass player. After 7 years of continually screwing up things I've been playing for 7 years. The way you come across. Now I've really been trying to incorporate my pinky. And only 3 frets per 4 fingers. I can't get over how much my practice has improved in only 4 days. And another thing I notice it just groups different parts of the riff? In a organized way that the change over is clean. ( if that makes any sense) Im like amazed. I just wanted to say thank you so much For this information. Thanks Mark!

@douglasnewing-southworth5751 3 жыл бұрын

This has been one of my weaknesses. I have really struggled using the the pinky. So thanks Mark I will try that exercise. I have enjoyed using the site and found it really helpful. As a 68 year old just starting the bass I am not very dextrous yet but hope to improve.. I am using the sight reading course as well as the beginner one and enjoying every minute.

@davehein1418 3 жыл бұрын

Great exercise. After laying off a few days, this one will get me Bach to the bass again. Thanks! Not seeing it up in the Lesson Map yet.

@KallieExperiments 3 жыл бұрын

Ah ... I was wondering. I've been scouring his site and I can't seem to find it. Does it usually take a few days?

@markbass354 3 жыл бұрын

GOOD VIDEO MARK, IVE BEEN PRACTICING SO MUCH I HAVE CAULISES ON MY FINGERS AND PLUCKING THUMB, I HAVE TO PLAY MY BASS EVERY DAY TO FEEL THE STRINGS UNDER MY FINGERS AND HEAR THAT GREAT SOUND

@rbarton15 3 жыл бұрын

So enjoyable to improve pinky strength whilst playing something that sounds interesting and pleasant. One of my many problems playing bass is lack of speed. This piece allows me to start slowly and then get faster. Can't play a succession of sixteenths yet but with practice ......

@alexl.9917 3 жыл бұрын

Really great exercise, perfect, thank you. And I've thought my pinky is doing pretty fine 😂

@alainbryson 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect lesson (especially the comments about bass- and hand positioning), and exactly what i needed. This video here ticks everything i wanted to know! One thing that's missing or i have a question about... and that is the 'light pressing' to get the right tone... doesn't that also depend on the action of the bass? And that being said... what 'action' do you reccomend/ play with? Other than that just another great little lesson... you really stand out with your approach to technique and theory... great stuff!

@tomservo999 3 жыл бұрын

Any ETA on when the lesson material will be up over at Takingbass?

@stuartplatt2146 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mark for another valuable lesson. Particularly good points re. the finger/fret positioning (7 minute mark). After 4 years I still have difficulty getting parallel. Another very important point re. fatigue (10 minute) - warning to the over enthusiastic newcomers!!!!

@kimbaptempura4073 3 жыл бұрын

This is my comment to the Channel: "Yet another great video! Thanks man!"

@AncientRunesMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Mayhap the greatest bass-learning channel on youtube, telling you to play one of the most iconic cornerstones of all metal. I just love it. This stuff used to cost a lot of money before teh interwebs. Edit: Now get it up in speed!

@victorlundy 3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the "Spy Hunter" theme!! when you played it fast!

@drakadiaz6221 3 жыл бұрын

There you are!!!

@mikestrong4946 3 жыл бұрын

I've been practicing my Chord Tones like Django Reinhart, -- and it shows...

@A_Maggot 3 жыл бұрын

Wild, last night I was wanting something to do to make my pinky stronger, did not know he was watching my search history. Creepy but also useful.

@horrorshowbass 3 жыл бұрын

The G one!!! Middle of Iron Maiden To tame a land is great for pinky stamina

@pbl6888 2 жыл бұрын

Bar 4 and bar 3 from Johann Sebastian's WTC Prelude #I-2 transposed down a 5th, obviously ;)

@smartbart015 2 жыл бұрын

Mark, it's a good exercise, thanks. One tip of advice for these kind of videos: although you mention later on people should start this exercise slow, you're not playing it slow yourself as an example. I think it will help students to start slower if you perform it a bit slower yourself as well at some moment in the video.

@sandeepvyas6576 3 жыл бұрын

That's some sauce

@scottarvizu9720 3 жыл бұрын

How do you always know what I need to practice. Clairvoyant?

@josephmorris7183 2 жыл бұрын

Mark what is your bass with the star on the body?

@maks886 3 жыл бұрын

I want to get into tapping but my pinky and ring fingers are so much weaker than the index and middle... I have to give this "work out" a try for a few weeks

@kevmac1230 2 жыл бұрын

I was taught early on to use one finger per fret but my flying pinkie makes me look like a posh bloke drinking a cup of tea.I need this,thanks.

@nikobellic1191 3 жыл бұрын

You can also do chromatic scales without using your index finger

@m_i_c_h_a_e_l 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone got a link to the lesson material?

@kinsellaSE7 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic lesson Mark! I think Johann Sebastian Bach copyright lawyers might be in touch soon though 🤣 I shall do this daily from now on and increase the BPM on a weekly basis. Many thanks!

@Rickrockit6109 Ай бұрын

Great exercise, I will incorporate this into my daily workout

@purplechili2512 3 жыл бұрын

Please someone tell me that this exercise will make my pinky reach the lower notes after 9th fret

@LeoNovel 3 жыл бұрын

♥️

@brucejacobs572 3 жыл бұрын

I can feel my fingers slowly loosening up already after my first attempt.

@moesaurenman4734 3 жыл бұрын

ill have to give this exercise a try thanks. also strangely papa roach sounding

@mikestrong4946 3 жыл бұрын

Ouch!

@A_Maggot 3 жыл бұрын

If you mean the riff, it was almost instant hand cramp for me, I have really neglected my pinky.

@basscirc 3 жыл бұрын

We are tempted to say that the weakest finger is the little finger. But in fact, the little finger can carry more weight than you think. Just try lifting the bag with your little finger and lifting it with your index finger, and you'll see that your little finger can hold the same weight for a few seconds. The ring finger is the weakest finger and the only one that cannot perform complex tasks on its own.