Slap Bass Lesson - How To Left Hand Slap
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Here is a Free Bass lesson for you all to get your teeth into. In the free bass lesson, I break down slap bass technique, in particular how to speed up your slap bass lines by incorporating the left-hand slap. The left hand slap in slap bass technique is fundamental to making your lines sound fast and also helps stop thumb fatigue by covering dead notes. This technique gives a more drumming effect on the bass guitar. If used well, it can mask ghosting notes and also opens up possibilities to hammer on notes which again make your lines sound like the thumb is doing more work. This technique has been heavily used with slightly different approaches by Bass players such as Mark King, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Les Claypool, Flea, Victor Wooten, Larry Graham and Louis Johnson. Once you have this technique under control, it is worth studying some of the slap bass lines by these masters to get a proper understanding of the technique.
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Great lesson .Thanks Man. It cleared up something for me.
Great lesson. Thank you!
I can't believe this is free
cocos Bassment tank even such blunt headed guy like me have learned that "bass lick". Your lessons are great!!!
Ezequiel Soto mate thats great to know these lessons are coming across well. Thanks for your kind feedback. Thanks for watching and commenting 👊
Thanks bro. a hug from chile!
Emmanuel Yañez thanks for watching, would love to visit chile one day. 👊🤩
good revision for me 👍 thxx🌹
Amr Gamal glad u dig it, thanks for watching and commenting 👊
Hi Steve. Brilliant stuff....even for me, a 70 year old. 😉 Couldn't help noticing...is there a reason you keep your right hand 1st finger hooked ? John
Thanks john, yeah the index finger (1st finger) helps mute the strings you’re not using.
The best song to apply that.."love games" by Mark King
Amr Gamal true, that song has such a great groove. So many great Level 42 song to get into. The early Stanley Clarke stuff is so reminiscent of those early level 42 tunes.
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This lesson is great ,thanks
Nice lesson man, your explications and exercices are really nice !
Thx for your help :)
I cant seem to get it, every time i try to do the left hand slap, a note plays and i can get a lot of force into the strings.
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Mai Chal thanks 🙏
There are diferent kinds od "dead notes", for example: "ghost notes", the "hit the strings with the right hand fingers", and the "left hand slap". I use to do the "left hand slap" but I've never known that this technique has a name. Thats nice! Thank you for share with us 🙂. Now I have a Question. Does the "hit the strings with the right hand fingers" technique has a name?
plate on the keyboard.... he just like me fr :')
Thanks bro. I struggle witwith this technique for some reason. 😔
Steve Reddick so glad its of some use, thanks for watching and thanks for commenting 👊
@@CocosBassment Happy 2020 bro 👊🏾
@@redd6399 Cheers Steve, you too mate, hope 2020 is a great one for ya.
Im not getting that really pronounced slap(tick) sound, if i left hand slap any harder, im basically fretting. Any tips for that?
Hey blake, thanks for the comment. One thing to pay attention to is baring with the index finger, I rest it on all strings and also pull the stings closer to the fretboard then the other fingers slap down which produce a more solid sound. I have a course on my website on a lot of the slap technique stuff. Hope that tip helps
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My left hand slaps always hammer on notes. I can't figure it out how to stop this
I'm struggling to get a percussive thud sound it sounds more like i'm just muting, do i just need to come down harder?
Thanks for the great lesson. I got 5 string bass guitar and I cannot mute the B string.. is it me or I should just use 4 string bass guitar to have a muted sound on left hand slapping?
Thanks for the comment, it takes a bit of time to get use to the extra string. I play mostly 5 string and muting is tricky but not too difficult. It starts with awareness then try think of the palm muting technique. I’m planning to get back to more UA-cam videos so I’ll maybe try and address this in a video lesson.
@@CocosBassment thanks, will be looking forward to it
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Ok,does action have anything to do with it? I can do it on my 5 string basses but on a 4,I get sound no matter what I do,the difference is my 4s are set with real low action,where my 5s have higher action. Not much of a slapper but I'm going to get this!
Aaron Davis yes and no, it shouldn’t matter too much but if the action is way to high you’ll find it harder to get the flow.
So this is a thing
Wow, please stop this cookie cutter intro. It's , you can do better. F' the algorithm. It's wrong.