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Chord Strumming

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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. All of the most influential slap players have used strumming at some point, and so in this course we’ll be looking at how we can incorporate this new concept into the slap bass technique.

1 - Introduction

In this video we'll be discussing the chord strumming technique and how it can be used to add further variety to our slap and pop grooves. I'll be demonstrating the technique using the strummed power chords line from Stanley Clarke's classic track 'School Days'.

2 - Getting Started with Chordal Strumming

We'll be looking at the basics of the technique in this video and learning how to accurately perform downstrokes and upstrokes.

3 - Exercise #4

This exercise uses major and minor open string tenth chords and it the perfect place to start once you have the basics in place.

4 - Exercise #5

This line features some strummed power chords and is similar in style to 'School Days' by Stanley Clarke.

5 - Exercise #6

This groove is based around a G dominant seventh chord and makes use of a common three-note voicing for the chord. This is the first exercise in which we'll be combining chord strumming with the slap and pop technique.

6 - Exercise #7

This is a more complex exercise that features full power chords, open string tenth chords and conventional slap and pop figures. There's a lot going on here, but this is a great exercise to play once you have it down.

7 - Exercise #8

This exercise uses the open string tenth chords that were covered in some of the earlier exercises, and combines them with some slap and pop lines.

8 - Exercise #9

This exercise features the double popping technique as well as chord strumming and conventional slap and pop lines. Don't forget that there is a whole course devoted to double popping if you need to recap on this!