Just gotta know, how does he do that double slapping with his thumb? I tried it and i wasn't even sure if I was doing it right. Is your nail supposed to be hit by the string? When I tried, it was awkward and wasnt very powerful. I am sorry I just wanna know
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Victor Wooten
- Thread starter BassGod2013
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Well, this is a very basic explanation of how I try to emulate it.
When doing this, remember that your thumb should be moving parallel to the body instead of perpendicular like when you are normally slapping (ala Flea).
You want to strike the string but keep going through it to the next string and use that next string as a stopping point (with the 1st string, you will just have to stop yourself). Then, after stopping rake back up into the string you had just struck. I like to use the side of my thumb joint on the way down and then the nail on the way back up. Hope this helps.
When doing this, remember that your thumb should be moving parallel to the body instead of perpendicular like when you are normally slapping (ala Flea).
You want to strike the string but keep going through it to the next string and use that next string as a stopping point (with the 1st string, you will just have to stop yourself). Then, after stopping rake back up into the string you had just struck. I like to use the side of my thumb joint on the way down and then the nail on the way back up. Hope this helps.
I was at a clinic with Victor Wooten at a Sam Ash store last year. He uses each finger in both directions for upstrokes and downstrokes. I've never gotten good enough at that to use it much myself and haven't had any real reason to. You have to hit really hard on the downstrokes to even out the volume. Stanley Clarke also does this (so I heard from a bass player who met him and asked about it.) Geddy Lee plays this way too, I'm told, though he only started to in the past decade or so.
Hope that helps.
Hope that helps.
Not sure I could explain it in a way you will understand. YouTube it and you will probably find some copyright violating stuff that will show it well.
up stroke and down stroke wit your thumb just like guitarists use picks
no bounds when your thumb hits the string, your thumb should stop at the next string and comes back up to make the sound double
no bounds when your thumb hits the string, your thumb should stop at the next string and comes back up to make the sound double
Yes he does! I did learn his technique and it is a lot of fun. You can actually use yor thumb, and your 2 first fingers to hit the string contunally...like a machine gun!! Yeah!
That's exactly how he describes it in The Music Lesson, which is a must-read for bassists!!!
--Steve
I may just be over thinking it. Is it supposed to be like really uncomfortable to the thumb nail!
BassGod2013 said:
Eh, little weird right at first but it's not painful and you get used to it pretty quick. Mind, I'm still working on this tool too, but I spend time on it every day.
