MOVING UP AND DOWN THE NECK ON ONE STRING

This exercise is designed to let you move up and down the neck on one string, while avoiding stretches. That means you're always in a four-fret span position, one finger per fret. Use your pinky to shift, and observe the tablature carefully. (Although there are certainly some effective alternate fingerings, I suggest you use the tablature exactly as written until mastered. Moving around with this approach can help loosen up your left hand, which should be relaxed at all times. After a while you may start getting ideas for variations, changing my note pattern, fingerings, or both. It's really just a foundation for getting used to moving around this way.)

The version without accidentals will fit musically in some situations where the chromatic notes sound awkward or wrong to your ear. Unfortunately, it's harder to play! The accidentals were used so the pinky could be the consistent shifting finger, and you could play it all on one string. The diatonic one (meaning no accidentals in the key of C, no chromatic notes outside the key) requires you to use the B string sometimes, and shift either with ring, middle, or pinky. If you use the four-fret span fingering principle (one finger per fret) the fingerings should be obvious. It will take some practice to get used to the shifts.