This course will show you how to add popped notes into the slap bass technique. Doing so will add considerable scope to the kinds of lines that can be played. The fretting hand muting technique – an important element covered in the previous course – will also be adapted for use with popped notes. You’ll find that the addition of popped notes will result in considerably more adventurous slap basslines.
If you require additional help with any of the techniques used here, the following courses (all included in the monthly subscription cost) should prove useful:
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This course is 23 MINUTES long and contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:
This lesson will explain the mechanics of the popping technique. Some simple exercises that put it to use will be demonstrated here.
This lesson focuses on the application of fretting hand muting to popped notes. As you hopefully know by now, this simple technique can make a huge difference.
This exercise is in the key of C minor. Bars 1 and 3 feature a simple, syncopated phrase, whilst bars 2 and 4 contain root-octave eighth note figures.
This exercise is in E minor and features a quick slap and pop figure in the second and fourth bars. You should allow most of the notes here to ring for their full duration.
This exercise moves between G and C chords, with each bar beginning with a basic slap and pop figure. Simple walking bass figures are used to move between the chords.
This is a more complex exercise that is based on the G Dorian mode (G-A-Bb-C-D-E-F-G). This line features a quick root-octave figure at the beginning of each bar.
This exercise is the most challenging one so far, mostly because it has a quicker tempo. The popped notes should be played staccato, as shown in the notation.