Help me Slap

lonestarwings · #1 09-20-2008, 12:42 AM

I've pretty much spent the past month or so of my practice time trying to learn slap. I have a good teacher but he's been out of town for awhile so I'm trying to get some feedback before i go back and play for him. If anyone has some pointers based off these examples of my playing I'd appreciate it.

I think my main problems are clarity of my hammer ons and pull offs (really working to hit it hard with the tip of the pinky), slapping too hard on the e string and squashing the sound, and maintenance of rhythm during sixteenth notes, especially on the dead notes. Let me know if you agree with these problems.

E position

Octaves

Dead Notes

Slax · #2 09-20-2008, 12:52 AM

I dug it completely!

I learned how to to play slap when I first started and didn't touch the stuff until now (8 years later). I wasn't into it then, but I was a pretty closed minded "punk" kid back then... *sigh* I've been re-teaching myself slap again recently.

My only thing, that I'm most likely wrong about, but did the dead notes ring out too much?

Stingray_EB · #3 09-20-2008, 01:13 AM

Hey you should tab these out, they would be good excerise for some beginners wanting to learn.

lonestarwings · #4 09-20-2008, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Slax

I dug it completely!

I learned how to to play slap when I first started and didn't touch the stuff until now (8 years later). I wasn't into it then, but I was a pretty closed minded "punk" kid back then... *sigh* I've been re-teaching myself slap again recently.

My only thing, that I'm most likely wrong about, but did the dead notes ring out too much?

Thanks! I think my dead pops probably are ringing too much I had my j-bass setup recently and they gave me pretty low action, so it's a fine line between muting it and fretting it. Then again I haven't even gone over this with my teacher so all I have to go buy is what it sounds like on his dvd.

lonestarwings · #5 09-20-2008, 01:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Stingray_EB

Hey you should tab these out, they would be good excerise for some beginners wanting to learn.

Wish I could take credit, but they're all taken from my teacher's DVD, which comes with tabs/notation:

http://www.musicdispatch.com/item_de...?itemid=320322