Can anyone recommend a good method for shred guitar and one for upright/string bass?

Here’s the thing, I am in grade 10, and I aspire to be a musician when i am of age, or to do something related to music. I have been doing classical (nylon string, finger style) guitar for almost 4 years now, and I am quite good, no lying. I’m doing my grade 8 RCM exam come this august. Also, in our school orchestra i play the string bass (meaning played with the bow).
I also play the guitar in our school’s jazz band (mostly big band swing)
I have a pretty good understanding of music theory, and can read music quite well.
Things i want to achieve:
– Significantly better playing string bass by the start of the next school year
– To learn rockabilly slap bass as well as i can by start of next school year, and then an ongoing thing
– To learn to shred the electric guitar, hopefully very well by the time i’m 18

I am quite fine on my classical guitar path, I have a teacher and I practice every day, but i decided this summer to get these other skills under my belt in case i decide to do one of them when i grow up.
I am a fast learner, and specifically what I need is a method and a practice schedule that i can follow every day, hopefully including a daily warmup, an in depth description of technique, and many etudes. I have been searching and simply can’t find anything like this for the bass or electric guitar

P.S – I am trying to learn the piano as well, but i have a teacher for that, plus it’s sort of a straight-forward instrument to learn, so i don’t need help for that.

P.P.S – Maybe someone could recommend a book on how to achieve pitch-perfectness?

Well for shredding you have the greates gift ever being a classical musician give avenged sevenfold a listen their music is based in a classical style whilst shredding. Okay for the guitar you want to familiarize yourself with sweep picking, pinch harmonics, tremolo picking, arpegiated runs, arpegiated sweeps and just watch as many videos on your favorite artists you can find but check out Afterlife by Avenged Sevnefold and you’ll see how classical and shredding go hand in hand. For slap bass and rockabilly and psychobilly bass you want to slapp the string with the top fleshy parts of your fingers similar to picking it Pizzacato then catching it and popping it out of your fingers letting it smack the neck a good practie is SSP which Slap slap pop start slow and work your way up metronomes will help you soo much on both instruments. Hope that helps and ROCK ON!

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  • Dylan says:

    Well for shredding you have the greates gift ever being a classical musician give avenged sevenfold a listen their music is based in a classical style whilst shredding. Okay for the guitar you want to familiarize yourself with sweep picking, pinch harmonics, tremolo picking, arpegiated runs, arpegiated sweeps and just watch as many videos on your favorite artists you can find but check out Afterlife by Avenged Sevnefold and you’ll see how classical and shredding go hand in hand. For slap bass and rockabilly and psychobilly bass you want to slapp the string with the top fleshy parts of your fingers similar to picking it Pizzacato then catching it and popping it out of your fingers letting it smack the neck a good practie is SSP which Slap slap pop start slow and work your way up metronomes will help you soo much on both instruments. Hope that helps and ROCK ON!
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