These arpeggio exercises, which John Patitucci has developed over the course of ten years, are designed to take the tedium out of these crucial building blocks, to make them fun and engaging for intermediate to advanced players.

About John Patitucci:

John Patitucci has been at the forefront of the jazz world for the last 30 years and active in all styles of music. He is a three-time Grammy Award winner, has been nominated over 14 times and has played on many other Grammy Award-winning recordings. John's latest CD, Remembrance, features saxophonist Joe Lovano and drummer Brian Blade. Both Remembrance and John's 2007 release, Line by Line, were nominated for Grammys for Best Instrumental Jazz Album. In 2005, as a member of The Wayne Shorter Quartet, John won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Jazz Album. John was also nominated for a Grammy in 2004 for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocal, and in 2003 for Best Instrumental Composition for a piece entitled Communion which features Branford Marsalis, Brad Mehldau, and violist Lawrence Dutton of the Emerson String Quartet.

John has won many magazine polls and awards as a double bassist and bass guitarist. He has performed and/or recorded with jazz giants such as Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Wynton Marsalis, Michael Brecker, Kenny Garrett, Victor Feldman, Nancy Wilson, and countless others.

John has been active as a composer with thirteen solo recordings of his own. He has also been commissioned to write for various chamber music groups. British composer Mark Anthony Turnage wrote a bass concerto for John (A Prayer Out of Stillness), which had its premiere performances in 2007 with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Estonian National Symphony and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and in 2008 with the Trondheim Symphony of Norway and the St. Louis Symphony. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra performance was featured on a live broadcast by the BBC throughout Europe. John will perform this piece in February 2013 with the London Symphony Orchestra.

John has been involved in education for many years, writing books, making instructional videos, and giving master classes around the world. His latest instructional book is Melodic Arpeggios and Triad Combining for Bass, published by David Gage String Instruments in February 2013. John was formerly the Artistic Director of The Bass Collective, a specialized school in New York. From 2002-2012, he was a Professor of Music at The City College of New York. John is currently Artist-in-Residence at Berklee College of Music's Global Jazz Institute. In 2012, John also launched his interactive online bass school through ArtistWorks (artistworks.com). 2013 finds John very active playing, recording, composing, and concertizing.