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Introduction

This series of courses is for bass players who are comfortable with the basics of the slap and pop technique and are who are now looking to add some further spice into their playing.

Throughout these courses we’ll be covering some of the more advanced elements of the slap technique such as fretting hand slaps, machine gun triplets, strumming, and double popping techniques. We’ll also be looking at some melodic elements such as tenths and double stops. Each of these new topics is supported by an extensive range of exercises.

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Slap Bass – Intermediate Level

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This course builds on the elements covered in the Beginner course, and adds more complex elements such as fretting hand slaps, double popping and strumming techniques. Throughout this series, we'll be looking at each element of the technique in turn, learning how to use it, then employing it in a series of real-world exercises. This course contains the following sub-courses (click on each one to see to the full content).

Fretting Hand Slaps

In this course we'll be looking at ways in which we can use the fretting hand to perform ghost note slaps. Doing so adds an important rhythmic device to our slap bass toolkit, and allows for more complex, syncopated linear slap grooves.

Introducing Tenths

In this course we'll be looking tenth intervals in detail, and examining how they can be useful to us when using the slap bass technique. After working through exercises that cover fretted tenths, we'll also be looking at open string tenths.

Machine Gun Triplets

In this course we’re going to be looking at an unusual rhythmic device known as the ‘machine gun triplet’. This is essentially a very fast triplet, made possible by splitting the work between the two hands.

Double Stops

In this video course we’ll be looking at double stops. A double stop is simply two notes - any two notes - that are played together.

Double Popping

This course covers the double popping technique, which requires you to pop notes with your first and second fingers, usually in a triplet rhythm.

Chord Strumming

Chord strumming is a relatively simple technique to add to your repertoire, but as you’ll discover from this course, it adds considerable scope to our slap bass grooves.

Intermediate Level Exercise Area

In this final section of the Intermediate Slap Bass course, we'll looking at some new slap and pop grooves that combine everything that we've covered in the previous courses.