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"Incredibly Useful Exercises for Double Bass" is a focused cover-to-cover workout that is tailor-made to condition specific aspects of Double Bass performance. Each exercise takes about an hour, and contains a warm-up, exercise and cool-down, with detailed instructions and focus points for each exercise. This volume, "Mindfulness, Awareness, Control", conditions the all-important psychological skillset that governs every aspect of a bassist's performance in critical and non-critical environments. This workout builds habits that flow naturally to public and private performances, with the aim of unifying the performance mindset to allow the performer to recreate the psychological challenges of public performance in the practice room. Number 1 in a 17-part series of focused workouts.