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Slap Bass – 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 can add considerable scope to your slap bass grooves. All of the most influential slap players have used strumming at some point, and so in this course you’ll learn how to incorporate this new concept.

If you require additional help with any of the techniques used in this piece, the following courses (all included in the monthly subscription cost) should prove useful:

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This course is 38 MINUTES long and contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:

1. Introduction

This video will discuss how chord strumming can be incorporated into slap bass grooves. A demonstration of Stanley Clarke's line from 'School Days' is featured here.

2. Getting Started with Chord Strumming

This video lesson covers the basics of the technique, with a focus on 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 basic technique under your fingers.

4. Exercise #5

This line features some strummed power chords and is similar in style to 'School Days' by Stanley Clarke. Muting the lower strings is crucial here.

5. Exercise #6

This groove is based around G7 and makes use of a three-note voicing for the chord. This is the first exercise to combine chord strumming with the slap 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 to digest here.

7. Exercise #8

This exercise uses the open string tenth chords that were covered in some of the earlier exercises and combines them with 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. Double popping is covered in the advanced course.