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07-31-2006, 02:44 PM
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Anyone know the best free websites that teach you to slap bass? Technique and tips and stuff! |
07-31-2006, 02:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Do a quick search. There were several slap bass threads started recently with good links to videos.
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07-31-2006, 11:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Jonathan w Anyone know the best free websites that teach you to slap bass? Technique and tips and stuff! | Check this cat out...he's currently the music director for Canadian Idol, used to be music director for Mike Bullard (Canadian late night host), stellar producer, musician, alla dat...excellent free resource! http://mocamusic.com/orinisaacs/bassic/bassic.html
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08-07-2006, 12:06 AM
| | [acct disabled - multiple aliases] | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Venice, CA | | | Go to the Music Dojo website they have an excellent series of Slap classes taught by Ant Wellington who plays in Victor Wootens band. The classes are written, audio, and video and Ant is great about answering questions. I took the Slap I class and can't wait to get the time to take the second and third classes. |
08-07-2006, 12:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Fort Worth, TX | | | +1 on MusicDojo. I have taken a couple of courses from Adam Nitti, and they are always willing to answer your questions.
Sign up and get the "Intro" courses for free (no slap though). You have to pay for the other courses, but they are well worth it. |
08-08-2006, 10:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Charleston, WV | | | I have a question that involves popping (slapping is coming along okay). Just posting it here to avoid creating another thread. Anyway, my teacher is very smooth at double popping (there might be a specific term for it, but it's when he pops the d and g strings in rapid succession after slapping). He tells me my form looks right, just keep plugging away at it, but I'm making very little progress, in my opinion. It seems the reason my popping isn't smooth is because I almost seem to be grabbing the strings. It seems my teacher is barely even making contact with them! Anyway, if getting this down is something everybody has to work through then I'll just keep at it, I just want to make sure I'm not instead working all those hours teaching myself bad form! |
08-08-2006, 10:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Buffalo | | | yeah, don't try to fully hook under the strings, just enough to pull them up a bit and let them snap down. if the string hits the first knuckle, you've probably hooked too far under.
still, whatever works works |
08-08-2006, 11:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Charleston, WV | | | Do most of you have the top part of the finger (above first knuckle) parallel to the string, or does that part of the finger sort of hook under the string? |
02-27-2012, 04:15 AM
| | | | I use itsabass.com
Its not free, but its really cheap. i use http://www.itsabass.com/slap_bass.html for slap bass lessons.
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