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Slap Bass – Double Thumbing (Part 2)

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Now that the basics of double thumbing have been covered, it’s time to start adding some other parts of the slap technique into the mix. This course will cover the addition of popped notes into the double thumbing technique. You’ll find that the combination of down and up thumbstrokes combined with popped notes makes for a very versatile slap technique indeed. This course will also cover the three-note combination of down-up-pop to play triplets.

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 1 HOUR & 8 MINUTES long and contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:

1. Introduction

This video discusses the next step with double thumbing: adding popped notes. It also covers a way of playing the C major scale over one octave using this technique.

2. Exercise #2

This video will show you how to play the C major scale over two octaves using the double thumbing and popping technique.

3. Exercise #5

This exercise uses a specific sequence of picking strokes: down-up-pop. This is played in a sixteenth note rhythm and forms the basis for a double thumbing groove.

4. Exercise #6

This exercise also uses the down-up-pop sequence. This time it’s used to play a slap groove based on the E Dorian mode (E-F#-G-A-B-C#-D-E).

5. Playing Triplets

This video will demonstrate how to use the down-up-pop sequence to play eighth note triplets. This will get you playing across all four strings of the bass.

6. Exercise #8

In this exercise the down-up-pop sequence is applied to a power chord figure. This is a technique that Victor Wooten used to great effect on 'The Sinister Minister'.

7. Exercise #9

This exercise takes the technique covered in the previous exercise and uses it to play sixteenth note triplets. This is then used to outline some upper register chords.

8. Exercise #10

This exercise is based on the A minor pentatonic scale and features some sixteenth note triplets that are based on the down-up-pop sequence.

9. Exercise #11

This exercise utilises the down-up-pop rhythm as a straight sixteenth note rhythm, and then as a sixteenth note triplet rhythm.

10. Exercise #12

This exercise is a funk groove based around an F7 tonality. The fill in the fourth bar is very challenging to play accurately.

11. Exercise #13

This exercise is the kind of funk groove that would ordinarily be played with the fingers. This is an excellent example of how versatile the technique can be.

12. Exercise #14

This exercise is a relatively simple double thumbing line that makes use of the half-step/whole-step diminished scale.

13. Exercise #15

This exercise once again makes use of the down-up-pop figure. The fourth bar features a Marcus Miller-inspired sixteenth note triplet fill.