Advanced Bass - How to Do the Vomit Exercise

Scott Giambusso: Hi! Its Scott Giambusso, here at my house, in my studio. We are on the next step after the chromatic scale. Now, I am going to describe to you a classical technique I learned on bass. We did the chromatic scale with the open strings. Now, we are going to do them with the close strings. I am going to show two different ways to do it. First, I would like to introduce you to the warming exercise. It is a lovely exercise in procession. Let us go to the low F mode on your bass. It is on the E string which is your fourth string; one, two, three, four. I have five strings and here is the first fret, here is F natural. Now, F natural is also here on the E thirteenth fret. What I am going to do is just slide as quickly as I can to that F natural and I am going to do it like this and then I am going to go back. The next thing I am going to do is go up a half step, a half step is one note to F sharp or G flat as in harmonica it might be called and I am going to go to the fourteenth fret, and I am going to do, and I am going to do them with all. The next note is G, A flat and so on and this is a way of getting you around the bass quicker, getting in no where you are when you are making your shifts and leaps, it is a very important thing. Now, the chromatic scale thats the point on to itself of course the warming exercise is really bad with the bow and they call it the warming exercise because it kind of makes you nauseous after a while. Anyway so thats that.