On this page can be found a lot of practice material (exercises, studies, and repertoire excerpts) for using the Thumbposition, in all the fingerboard regions. A lot of the exercises can be usefully practised in different keys without any changes in fingering, but as we move down into the Neck Region, the use of thumbposition usually becomes more and more uncomfortable because the distances between the fingers become larger. The first five categories are placed in order of increasing left-hand movement up and down the fingerboard:
In One Position: But With Internal (Non-Whole-Hand) Movements
Moving Around With Whole-Hand Shifts: Chromatic
Moving Around With Whole-Hand Shifts: Scalic Stepwise
Moving Around With Whole-Hand Shifts: Larger Intervals
Shifting On The Thumb      Octaves
Fourth Finger Use In Thumbposition
Shifting To and From Thumbposition
Repertoire Compilations Using Thumbposition (classified by composer)