The book starts with basic slapping and popping technique and moves on to cover ghost notes, using hammerons and pulloffs. Check out slap it by tony oppenheim and the slap bass bible by anothony vitti. In addition, you can find their piano accompaniments and playalong cds to help develop your bass playing skills. Ultimate slap bass intermediate edition develops the slap technique through techniques such as double popping, strumming, left hand slapping and machine gun triplets. These online bass lessons cover fundamental bass techniques. Slap bass technique how to play bass learn to play music store. The standard tuning for a 4string bass is e a d g e being the thickest string or the top one if you will. This is why i created big funk text book slap, ebook that will teach you all you need to know about the slap technique. Slapping technique slapping means hitting the string with your right thumb. The online course is a lifetime subscription that accesses more exercises and lessons. Teach yourself to play bass guitar at your own pace. There are a few different ways of notating slap bass, but the easiest one to read is the one that differentiates slapping from popping.
Learn to serve up funkalicious grooves and extract the vibrant percussive. Cp18316 progressive slap technique for bass stephan richter on. Right now over 10,000 bass players are enrolled in the academy here at scotts bass lessons and are making a real difference to their playing. In slap bass, youll learn the fundamentals of slap, from traditional to modern techniques, and learn to construct your own slap lines over original songs. The author stuart clayton had authored several bass books prior to the 2007 publication of ultimate slap bass and also regularly writes for the british bass guitarist magazine. First, you need to develop coordination to accurately strike the string. Slap bass is a technique difficult to describe in words, so we made this video to accompany the slapping chapter of our book bass technique finger gym. By using fingering alternation in focused technique exercises, you can make your plucking hand technique instantly more efficient and make challenging bass lines and passages much easier to play. Beginner to intermediate bass players who want to learn slap bass veteran bass teacher and berklee grad reveals a new super simple method for playing slap bass without expensive lessons, years of tedious practice, or even natural ability. It still includes the same classic 151 slap bass exercises, but now all examples are provided. Funk slap is popular with bass players of all ages and represents the ultimate level of training for any bassist. Even though john goldsby is an upright player and the players presented in the book are too, electric players can learn so much from this book.
Slap bass is an essential technique on bass, and in this video lesson, i will show you how to accurately perform the slap technique. It will take you from simple to advanced practices and enable you systematic progress, no matter if you are a beginner or a seasoned bass player. Ebook has 193 exercises, as well as 3 unique examples of bass solos. This is the second in the series of lessons on slap bass from mark j smith at. Slap bass techniques, adjustments and tricks to develop. May 17, 2014 we are gonna be playing some slap bass.
Keep in mind that these two books cover traditional slap technique. The book includes 73 exercises and audio files and backing tracks are available to download separately for each one. This lesson covers the use of muted notes or ghost notes in getting that funky sound we all want. It also covers popular scales and modes for the slap technique and includes a detailed history of the slap bass technique. The style sounds much more percussive than regular plucking of notes with the soft part of the plucking hands fingers, and is also usually louder although on an electric. Due to a lack of a drummer, larry decided to slap and pop the strings to simulate the percussive sound of a drum set. The technique for slap bass differs from that of standard bass.
The only way outside of the matrix to develop your technique is practice, practice, practice. The slap that i wanted to deliver with that book was to a culture in australia that had literally made me sick, sick to the stomach. In fact, you might not even sound like the pros in your first few years, it all depends on how much and how consistently you practice. I bought a bass recently and i am evolving very fast, and i usually learn stuff and acquire dexterity in a new instrument by choosing songs that use this particularly skill im trying to acquire. Ultimate slap bass by stuart clayton overdrive rakuten. In this book, the first in the series of three, the technique is covered from the absolute basics. If you love the groovy bass lines in popular funk and rock songs, you might want to learn how to play slap bass.
Slap bass is the percussive funk bass style that first gained popularity with larry graham in. Bass technique video lessons adam nitti music education. Since the emergence of funk in the 1970s, slap bass has become an essential technique in any electric bassists tool kit. In this course, world renowned educator, phil mann takes you right from the start of getting your slap technique chops together in a clear, concise and step by step manner that will have you slapping and popping your own grooves in no time. Ultimate slap bass is one of the most popular books ever written on the slap bass technique. For beginner to professional a comprehensive, easy to follow guide introducing all the important techniques required to play slap bass. This course is for anyone who wants to get into the fantastic and funkilicious technique of slap bass. Slap bass pdf, big funk text book slap, ebook with mp3 track. Slap bass what it is and how it works musika lessons blog. Slap bass video lesson fundamental changes music book. Demonstration of the slap technique on a 6 string bass.
Ultimate slap bass is a 206 page book with two cds that aims to be a definitive guide to the slap bass technique and also aims to be for all levels of player, from beginner to advanced. See the new bass transcriptions and other news in the latest issue of our free email newsletter. Part one of a threepart series, this book introduces music theory, scales and chords. This comprehensive book covers every aspect of the slap technique from the absolute basics through to advanced techniques such as double thumbing, open.
For more information and exercises to play in this style be sure to check out our new book bass technique finger gym. Sep 29, 2017 this technique works for bass guitars as well as double bass instruments. This is the foundation of slap bass and the motion you will use the most. Tablatures come a long way in the last fifteen years on all electric stringed instruments, bass no exception. That said, the technique i use, and write about in my book, works well for me, and has worked for many of my students. You probably wont sound like your slap bass idol the first time you play a bass. Larry graham developed slap bass while in a band with his mother. This book contains over 1,000 unique rhythm patterns for developing slap bass technique, inspired and derived from drum rudiments shared by. Ok this is my opinion but i have looked at alot of slap books over the years and most of them suck ass. The entire motion should be produced from your wrist tilting side to side while your fingers do their work.
Mel bay gleaned from years of teaching, performance, and listening experience bass players at all levels will benefit from studying the numerous exercises, grooves, and musical examples offered in this book. Funk studies for the electric bass was the first book to be published on slap bass technique. The slap that i wantedmore the book does the job that the author wanted it to. A short lesson on how to learn the slap technique on a 4string bass. Bass dvds bass improvisation bass lines books bass play alongs bass solos and transcriptions bass technique search within. Free slap bass exercises marks and symbols used in funk. The only way to perfect the bass guitar slapping technique is through practice. Adapted from the hugely successful print edition which. Oct 22, 2015 the technique i explain in this slap bass triplets lesson is a secret trick thats used by many of the greats like marcus miller, victor wooten and les claypool. This bass lesson focuses on the plucking hand and will teach you the importance of splitting up the workload between your plucking fingers.
In order to do that your thumb should be parallel to the strings and you may have to lower you elbow near the bridge. The hard pulling of strings slap bass technique is frequently heard in the rockabilly and psychobilly genres. Dec 31, 2008 cp18316 progressive slap technique for bass stephan richter on. Learn to play double bass with the most widely requested bass method books.
Slapping and popping are ways to produce percussive sounds on a stringed instrument. Although one could write a whole book on the topic of slapping alone, this video is a quick way to get started with slap bass. The rest of the book is dedicated to the technique and styles involved. Learning and practicing the core techniques for bass guitar should be part of your practice routine.
Slap bass bassline publishing release new slap bass ipad books. Lemur stocks dozens of arco technique books, bowing studies, and fingering methods for upright bass. Take your bassline to a whole new level by mastering the left hand slap bass technique. From hammerons and pulloffs to harmonics and slidesas well as other essential bass guitar techniques. John falstrom, author of eadg 4, introduces a technique exercise that gives your fingers a fun workout. It goes through the main jazz bass players from the swing era onwards. Ultimate slap bass intermediate level bass techniques and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Oct 31, 2012 slap bass bassline publishing release new slap bass ipad books bassline publishing is proud to announce the release of three new interactive books for the ipad ultimate slap bass beginner level, ultimate slap bass intermediate level, and ultimate slap bass advanced level. This piece is the second of two slap bass studies written for the book. Funk studies for the electric bass was the first book to be published on slap bass technique now more than 25 years later, slap it. Slap bass for beginners with play bass now in this beginner and intermediate bass course, practice the essentials of the slap bass technique, while refining your own signature groovy sound. I dont know where he went wrong with the slap book. The slap by christos tsiolkas goodreads share book.
Stuart clayton ultimate slap bass beginner level pdf. How to play slap bass fundamental changes music book publishing. Oct 26, 2016 first published in 1981 and written by tony oppenheim, slap it. Bass dvds bass improvisation bass lines books bass play alongs bass solos and transcriptions bass technique.
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