left hand damping?

Hi All,

New member alert!

I have been playing bass for a number of years but really wanted to get to grips with slap bass, so I have bought the Slap Bass programme by Alexis 'unpronouncable'! It is a really good video but I have run into problems.

He does this technique where he slaps with the thumb, 'damps' with left hand to give a click, slaps the damped strings with the thumb for another click and then pops with the forefinger.

My problem is that first 'damp' with the left hand always produces a note not a click. Is it that my Washburn 5-string is not a good bass for this technique (low action) or is there a trick to this that I haven't picked up on?

Thank you very much for your help

Jon

 

Quite right Bruce!

Good exercises seem to be at:

http://www.bassplayer.com/z1998/9809/larue.shtml

Hopefully they will work!