Slap lesson and licks
Summary
- Introduction
- Style Mark King
- Style Alain Caron
- "Art Metal" - Jonas Hellborg
- Slap funk
- Slap funk II
- Slap funk III (News)
- Bruno Tauzin - « Orange slap » (News)
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Introduction
The slapping is a technique that combines several specific movements to obtain very interesting percussive effects.
There are two basic movements, thumb and pop
Some great bass masters: Alain Caron, Victor Wooten, Mark King, or Marcus Miller.
Style Mark King
A slap lick of Mark King, in the Level42 group. The song is "Hot water".
Everything is played on the thumb and it goes quickly!!
A lick in the style of the great Alain Caron.
Composed mostly of sixteenth notes, playing a tempo of 120, this plan uses two techniques:
This plan was written for 5 string, but for 4 strings owners, you just have to transpose, instead of being in C, it will be in F
As usual, working very slowly with the metronome, and watch the video:
This is a nice little funk lick in E.
You'll notice the use of hammers on the notes D and E, A strings, and the slide on the Bb note, D strings.
This slap intro, from the song "Art Metal" from the eponymous album.
Slap lick in E, with dead notes, slides and trills.
Bruno Tauzin - « Orange slap »
My first funky slap composition, « Orange slap ». I used a Fender Victor Bailey acoustic bass. There is a lot of slap techniques: thumb, pop, hammer, slide, dead notes and chords.
I hope you like it!!
Transcription tablature - PDF
For this third lick, a new technique: a right hand percussion with index – middle finger.
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