25 Funky Slap Bass Grooves...Take The Challenge! (tabs & tutorial)

This week sees the release of the 25 Slap Groove Challenge over at the Talkingbass website: www.talkingbass.net/
The 25 Slap Groove Challenge is available to all Talkingbass Members. The Talkingbass Membership is totally FREE.
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The 25 Slap Groove Challenge is a progressive set of slap bass riffs designed to test your technical skills from beginner to advanced level. The first Bass Riff is merely a simple one string line but as you progress through the list you'll encounter every aspect of technique from ghost notes to double thumbing and everything in between. You'll also encounter a variety of rhythmic hurdles in the shape of syncopated 16th notes and odd time signatures.
In this video we'll look at 5 riffs from the 25 Slap Groove Challenge covering a variety of different technical problems.
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Scott can’t slap!

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Started learning bass slap from this exact video in late 2021, and still rocking the slaps till now. Thanks for teaching us those ghost-note techniques. It was a GAME CHANGER for my bass playing.

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First of all I just want to say thank you for what you have done for me personally and my approach to all things bass. You're hands down the top instructional/bass player I've watched and learned from. I would love to see a video where you could show me/us the different grooves of slap you could improvise with different drum beats. I get hung up so bad on if I should pluck on the snare vs the hihat or just alternate between the two and if I should just hang back on the off beat. I mostly played metal/thrash that had melodic slowdowns and am pretty new to the funk and slap world, but gave always loved it. I just want to be more versatile and not suck at it.
Thank you again for all that you do, sir!
-Shane

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Learned to slap with these grooves. Thank you very much Mark!

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ive played bass for years and this is hands down the best lesson ive ever watched

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Great tutorial, really well explained.
I got a lot to practice but it's really inspiring. Thanks a lot.

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the drummer looks like Walter White

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Groove 11 is sick! So funky!

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Brilliant Mark

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Wow...im just started...genius teacher..thanks

[@luoyng]

14:51 is the best groove

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love the way you explained things even the novice can understand your tutorial thanks

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Thank you Mark.

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[@fracklo1997]

8:48 I've always wondered how bassists use ghost notes because they sound soo cool! I'm a beginner at bass but with decent music experience on church service using the keys. I'm really happy you made a tutorial, because it's an absolute game changer for me.. My index finger now hurts because of those pops but who cares xD Calluses will build eventually, hopefully haha. Thx for the tutorial man :D

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@@vamountainman2512 Groove 11 is a super game changer for my playstyle!! I learned more slap tricks using that ghost note technique alone :D

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How many months in?

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Nice drumming Walter

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I'm right sloppy slapping bit got other groove's , I'll work on it. Thanks man

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Scott should watch this :]

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Most helpful

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Sehr detailiert erklärt

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8:57

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Excellent lesson! What strings are you using? The tone is perfect

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And now, Heiseinberg on the drums.

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heisenberg on drums!

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Awesome video! Can you please make a tutorial on, Victor Wooten "You Cant Hold No groove." They're no tutorials anywhere on youtube, that are in English. Cheers

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Great

[@bengosse7217]

I accept your challenge!

[@AndyPanda9]

Great video Marc! Beginner slap question here: Are you muting the E string with your left hand middle finger when you're slapping the A string? I am having a really hard time muting that E string and only wrapping my left thumb around or right palm mute seems to work for me. I'm guessing there are significant advantages to learning to mute with the middle fretting finger - if that is what you are doing. Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.

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0:03 the drummer sorta looks like Mike form breaking bad in that shot😂😂
Uhhh that’s a funny though mike playing the drums with his expressionless face.

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19:37

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1:45

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That tone...

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13:04

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8:38
14:51
20:20

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