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72 pagesSize: 12" x 9"Author: "Gary Willis"ISBN: 0793560438Online audio features Gary Willis demonstrating 99 examples and exercises
Don't think in terms of long term goals, think short term goals. Break everything that you want to do down into smaller and smaller sections. For example, you want to learn that sweet sweet intro to Only Ash Remains. Instead of worrying about how insane it is all put together, break it into its components. Practice simple two-handed tapping arpeggios and hammer-ons and pull-offs. Learn the lick at a painfully slow speed. Then forget about the whole thing and come back to it anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks later. Don't let yourself get frustrated. Realize that all the crazy stuff you want to be able to play took the artist months if not years to be able to play. It's a journey and it takes time.
Beyond that, find some outside direction to your practice. Find a teacher and/or pick up a book or two and start making your way through it.
Instead of the Bass Grimoire, I prefer Intergalactic Bass, but that's just me. Another one that is maybe a bit more accessible for students is Fingerboard Harmony; not a beginner book, but it has some useful text to support the diagrams.
Gary Willis' Fingerboard Harmony for Bass
Fingerboard Harmony by Gary Wills might be a good option.
https://www.amazon.com/Fingerboard-Harmony-Bass-Builders/dp/0793560438
I really like how he presents theory and breaks down geometry of neck/notes. He super cool, got to study with him a bit back in the day. :)
Gary Willis' Fingerboard Harmony for Bass is very good. Still kicks my ass