A question on a common lick in slap bass clips

[natselection]

http://www.thegrooveshoppe.com/GS5/clips/clips.htm

if you click on the rosewood/alder slap groove clip, at 0:02 and 0:09, there is a lick, really fast ghost notes it seems, i hear it alot in MM, and i was wondering how do you do that? there has to be a better way than just pop or slap really quickly

[lemur821]

Probably it's left hand slapping. I think the guy is popping the note, smacking the strings with his fretting fingers, then doing a muted slap with his plucking hand.

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Sounds pretty clearly like a double thump followed by a pop- you get very quick percussive attacks like that when double thumping.

[vic_6]

sounds like double thumping to me ala wooten. though the licks sound very marcus miller.

[natselection]

yeah, i thought it sounded like MM too. so double thumping eh? thanks alot

[Josh Raines]

There are a few techniques used in there, double thumping, and also slapping the fretboard with fretting hand + a thumb and a pluck which gives the quick triplet.

[ManuelJG]

yep, double thumps, left hand slaps and plucks involved there

[geoffkhan]

That one on 0:02 could be just two muted pops, a muted slap, and then an unmuted pop. The two muted pops are on different strings, accomplished by wrist rotation.

Like this:

G|---x---5-----------
D|-x-----------------
A|-------------------
E|-----x-------------

So: pop (muted), pop (muted), slap (muted), pop

EDIT: After watching the videos of the guy playing, I see he's using double thumb rather than the technique I discuss in this post.