Slap Bass COURSE Suggestions?

[JeremyATP]

Hey all! Looking for suggestions on more complete courses for slap bass. Browsing through the threads I see lots of suggestions of great single videos covering one technique, but I am looking for something a bit longer that builds on itself rather than jumping from one guys video to another.

I found "the bass wizard" course, any feedback on that one? I've also seen a lot of suggestions for 'Scotts bass lessons', but not sure how much he covers slap and if his stuff is more of a course or just lots of random technique lessons.

Any suggestions or feedback would be great!

 

[BassAndReeds]

Hey all! Looking for suggestions on more complete courses for slap bass. Browsing through the threads I see lots of suggestions of great single videos covering one technique, but I am looking for something a bit longer that builds on itself rather than jumping from one guys video to another.

I found "the bass wizard" course, any feedback on that one? I've also seen a lot of suggestions for 'Scotts bass lessons', but not sure how much he covers slap and if his stuff is more of a course or just lots of random technique lessons.

Any suggestions or feedback would be great!

The bass wizard is on TB. I haven't seen his videos though. Scott has some basics that are helpful.

I suggest just slapping every day for at least 15 minutes. On any tune, doesn't have to be a slap tune. Truthfully, slapping on non-slap tunes will let you focus on slower, easier rhythms, instead of trying to mimic harder recorded lines you can't handle yet.

You don't need a course. (I know that wasn't your question. But I think it's good advice)

 

[hs123]

From Scott's Bass Lessons:
Slap Bass Fundamentals With Phil Mann: Volume 1 (and Volume 2) is pretty good.

 

[TheBassWizard1]

Hey all! Looking for suggestions on more complete courses for slap bass. Browsing through the threads I see lots of suggestions of great single videos covering one technique, but I am looking for something a bit longer that builds on itself rather than jumping from one guys video to another.

I found "the bass wizard" course, any feedback on that one? I've also seen a lot of suggestions for 'Scotts bass lessons', but not sure how much he covers slap and if his stuff is more of a course or just lots of random technique lessons.

Any suggestions or feedback would be great!

Hi Jeremy,

That is exactly why I created my course, to offer a fully structured curriculum to mastering slap bass from the very beginning stages all the way up to advanced techniques.

You are absolutely right, bouncing around from one guys video to another is not practical and is the most inefficient way to learn. I have met many players over the years who have watched hours and hours of video and yet have not learned or progressed much because without structure, you're not really going to master anything, you're just going to learn little tricks here and there.

I have been teaching this stuff for many years and my course has gotten great rave reviews from players of all levels from beginner to intermediate. You can watch some of my slap bass lessons on Youtube to get an idea of my teaching style.

Let me know if you have any specific questions I can answer for you.

Best,
Marc

 

[JeremyATP]

Hi Jeremy,

That is exactly why I created my course, to offer a fully structured curriculum to mastering slap bass from the very beginning stages all the way up to advanced techniques.

You are absolutely right, bouncing around from one guys video to another is not practical and is the most inefficient way to learn. I have met many players over the years who have watched hours and hours of video and yet have not learned or progressed much because without structure, you're not really going to master anything, you're just going to learn little tricks here and there.

I have been teaching this stuff for many years and my course has gotten great rave reviews from players of all levels from beginner to intermediate. You can watch some of my slap bass lessons on Youtube to get an idea of my teaching style.

Let me know if you have any specific questions I can answer for you.

Best,
Marc

Thanks Marc, Ill definitely check that out!

 

[Lownote38]

Don't pay to learn slap. It's a technique that can be learned for free quite easily.

 

[hs123]

The Bass Wizard Course is very good also. (I did the old one, I think he has a newer one now).

 

[Whousedtoplay]

Don't pay to learn slap. It's a technique that can be learned for free quite easily.

 

[sean_on_bass]

Yes i learned basic slap on my own pretty much. Then through experimentation became better at it. There are some more advanced techniques that might require some direction though(see Victor Wooten). Basic slap/pop will cover most of your use cases though. Agreed on not seeing a full course as needed, but i suppose it may fast track it for you.

 

[Hari Seldon]

You mention a "complete course". To that end, I found that the one at talkingbass.net was really good. It's two separate courses, Vol 1 and Vol 2. They are 25 and 27 lessons respectively and if you're starting from scratch each one will probably take you around a week of regular, good practice time to really master before moving on to the next. So it's about a year worth of slap lessons.

He starts out quite basic in the first one. I had slapped only some before (about 25 years ago) so I decided to start from the beginning, and I'm glad I did. I unlearned some bad habits and figured out the "right" way to do things. The material toward the end of the course gets to be quite a bit more advanced--the Mark King style riff in one of the lessons is one that I still can't play at tempo, and I've spent hours on it. I expect you'll still want to do other practicing (scales, timing, improvisation, learning other songs that you want to learn, etc.) to become the complete player you want to be, but if you're looking to learn slap techniques such as ghost notes, palm slaps, double thumbing, the cool fast triplet thing, etc.), it's great. Currently both together are $80 USD.

He's got sample lessons on his site as well as tons of stuff on his YouTube channel so you can get a really good feel for his teaching style. Good luck.