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Slap Bass – Double Popping

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When it comes to popping notes, most players will favour either their first or second finger. It’s nevertheless an excellent idea to be comfortable using either one, as this opens up other options. If you’ve been working through these courses in order, the Double Stops course (Intermediate Level) will have given you the opportunity to work on this to some extent.

This course will demonstrate how to use the first and second fingers to pop notes one after the other, as opposed to popping them simultaneously. The combination of thumb slaps and first and second finger pops makes for another excellent way to play triplets, as you will discover from the exercises in this course. These can then be used as rhythmic figures that can add an extra dimension to your slap lines.

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:

Don’t forget to hit the Download Resources button above to get the PDF worksheet and audio files for this course (available to subscribers only). The worksheet is available with TAB and without, for those who wish to give their reading skills a workout.

This course is 30 MINUTES long and contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:

1. Introduction

This video will discuss the benefits of learning to use double popping. The technique will then be demonstrated using a song called 'Count Zero' by Stuart Hamm.

2. Getting Started with Double Popping

This video covers the basics of the technique. Initially you’ll play it with eighth note triplets, then double this up to sixteenth note triplets.

3. Exercise #5

This is a simple exercise in E that clearly illustrates how the double popping technique can be used to add some rhythmic excitement to a line.

4. Exercise #6

This exercise is in the key of A minor and is a little more challenging. Watch out for the notes that follow the double pops: in many cases they are on the D-string.

5. Exercise #7

This exercise is in F# minor and uses the same triplet figure from the previous two exercises. This line also features an unusual figure in the second and fourth bars.

6. Exercise #8

This exercise again uses the same sixteenth note triplet figure, but with a quicker tempo this time. Watch out for the second and fourth bars – things get quite hectic!

7. Exercise #9

This exercise works over the chord changes to the Jaco Pastorius classic 'Teen Town' and is quite challenging to play. Open string tenths are also used here.