double thumping songs/exercies suggestions needed

[varunkapahi]

i've bee latley working at double thumping and i am amazingly able to to do it a bit! so i have been double thumping scales and stuff like victor wooten explains in his video but can you guys suggest me any songs or licks or grooves such stuff which is fun to play which involve double thumping but are'nt too hard or too fast?
if not how would you recommend i go on to improve my double thumping?
like i mean i learned to play some rhcp, some old school funk stuff when i wanted to slap the usual style but i dunno what too look for regarding double thumping else than victor wooten's stuff but thats kinda really hard to jump on to you know. so any ideas?

[Slappingpopping]

A cool melodic sort of wavy sounding thing is this- I saw victor wooten playing it. sounds great- all on the same string go - Down,up pluck(pop).
E-----------------------------------------------------|
A---12(down)12(up)12(pluck)-------------------------|
D---------------------------14,14,14---------14,14,14|
G------------------------------------16,16,16--------|

This is great, it can be moved any position. once you get the down up pluck in perfect timing it creates a great wave effect IMO

[varunkapahi]

Originally Posted by Slappingpopping

A cool melodic sort of wavy sounding thing is this- I saw victor wooten playing it. sounds great- all on the same string go - Down,up pluck(pop).
E-----------------------------------------------------|
A---12(down)12(up)12(pluck)-------------------------|
D---------------------------14,14,14---------14,14,14|
G------------------------------------16,16,16--------|

This is great, it can be moved any position. once you get the down up pluck in perfect timing it creates a great wave effect IMO

yep the 1-5-9 pattern! been playing that already

[varunkapahi]

bump

[varunkapahi]

been looking! cant find any double thumping stuff to practice

[Kipaste]

Check out MarloweDK from youtube. He has a doublethumbing tutorial and plenty of excercises. Many of them sound a lot more difficult than they really are. The greatest thing about the whole technique is IMO that it makes everything so effortless and easy. Once you get that motion down, rest of it just comes with the flow.

Here are a couple of his youtube videos to start with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAs0IBmBiOk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXO0CVx2Gg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLx6aMp8z4Y

If you wan't more, go to playbassnow.com

Edit. Here's the tutorial too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM7EOeaybL4

[Bassguy87564]

I've heard Victor say this Im trying to remember what video it was but its not ringing any bells. Try playing songs you know in the style double thumb. When I was taking lesson back in New Jersey my guitar teacher loved mo-town song so he taught alot of in that style. I would just take those bass lines and bump around with them adding ghost notes where it felt right.

Okay Im think I remember where I heard that I think it was in the Bass Day 1998 an interview in the DVD extras. Good luck man

[varunkapahi]

Originally Posted by Kipaste

Check out MarloweDK from youtube. He has a doublethumbing tutorial and plenty of excercises. Many of them sound a lot more difficult than they really are. The greatest thing about the whole technique is IMO that it makes everything so effortless and easy. Once you get that motion down, rest of it just comes with the flow.

Here are a couple of his youtube videos to start with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAs0IBmBiOk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXO0CVx2Gg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLx6aMp8z4Y

If you wan't more, go to playbassnow.com

Edit. Here's the tutorial too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM7EOeaybL4

oh yeah i had it bookmarked too! silly me

Originally Posted by Bassguy87564

I've heard Victor say this Im trying to remember what video it was but its not ringing any bells. Try playing songs you know in the style double thumb. When I was taking lesson back in New Jersey my guitar teacher loved mo-town song so he taught alot of in that style. I would just take those bass lines and bump around with them adding ghost notes where it felt right.

Okay Im think I remember where I heard that I think it was in the Bass Day 1998 an interview in the DVD extras. Good luck man

i cant really play my usual slap parts in double thump much because they were made in such a way but am working at it. thanks for the suggestion though! i can sureley lean to play my finger style stuff in double thump, which i have been doing but the problem is when i have to jump or shift strings and the last thumb motion was in the opposite direction i cant come back on time.
i mean for example if i just double thumped A string twice up and down, then i have to shift to the E string now i need to down thump it but the string is above my position so i have to shift which takes time. its only a matter of time i think though with some practice it should become natural

[michaelgilleran]

Originally Posted by varunkapahi

yep the 1-5-9 pattern! been playing that already

Lol, if theres one thing I know about Victor Wooten, its that he loves his 1 5 9 licks. V/V V I FTW!

TS, why not go right to the source? Theres a good video of wooten "battling" his brother where he lays down some relatively easy double thumb lines. They sound really hard, but the beauty of the technique is that they make very hard lines quite easy to play.

I remember thats how I started with the double thumb anyways. Transcribing those couple lines after watching probably the same tutorial vid as you

[varunkapahi]

Originally Posted by michaelgilleran

Lol, if theres one thing I know about Victor Wooten, its that he loves his 1 5 9 licks. V/V V I FTW!

TS, why not go right to the source? Theres a good video of wooten "battling" his brother where he lays down some relatively easy double thumb lines. They sound really hard, but the beauty of the technique is that they make very hard lines quite easy to play.

I remember thats how I started with the double thumb anyways. Transcribing those couple lines after watching probably the same tutorial vid as you

yeah now with a broken middle finger on the picking hand all am doing is double thumping and getting around the pick.

[faiz0802]

Marcus Miller, man. Check out Scoop, Power. Pretty simple. Scoops all about that pentatonic run he starts off with. You'd be surprised, but he uses the double thumb quite a bit. And SMV - thunder. Can't go wrong with that. I kinda realized, and this is because i like plying chords a LOT, that if you arpeggiate(Hope that's a word) chords using the double thumb, you end with with a lot of cool stuff. And muting helps quite a lot too. I mean, as space in between the notes. Hope this helps.

Good luck, and more power to you!

[JimmyM]

forst i ever heard of double thumbing was sinister minister by bela fleck and the flecktones. you won't find many songs because there simply isn't many songs that use it.

[varunkapahi]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

forst i ever heard of double thumbing was sinister minister by bela fleck and the flecktones. you won't find many songs because there simply isn't many songs that use it.

the funny thing is when i tried to learn the song way back i was playing the usual slap part but could never get those fast runs! maybe i should get back to that song now, great

however, the best thing i found to do with double thumping is to play it all the time instead of the usual slap tech