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Double Thumbing – Part 2

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Now that the basics of the double thumbing technique have been covered, it’s time to start adding some other parts of the slap technique into the mix. Assuming you are already able to play standard slap lines like those featured in the Beginner and Intermediate courses, you’ll be familiar with popped notes. This video course will cover adding popped notes into the double thumbing technique.You’ll soon find that the combination of down and upstrokes with the thumb together with popped notes makes for a very versatile slap technique. This course will also cover the three-note combination of downstroke-upstroke-pop to play triplets.

1 - INTRODUCTION

In this video we'll be discussing the next step with the double thumbing technique: adding popped notes. We'll also look at a way of playing the C major scale over one octave using this technique.

2 - EXERCISE #2

In this video we'll be playing the C major scale over two octave using the double thumbing and popping technique. This is an illustration of one of the many ways to play the scale over two octaves - further options are shown in the downloadable PDF.

3 - EXERCISE #5

In this exercise we will be using a specific sequence of picking strokes: down-up-pop. We will be playing this sequence with a sixteenth note rhythm and using it as the basis for a very funky double thumbing groove.

4 - EXERCISE #6

In this video we'll be looking at another exercise that uses the down-up-pop sequence. This time we'll be using it to play a slap groove based on the E Dorian mode.

5 - PLAYING TRIPLETS

In this video we will be playing the down-up-pop sequence as eighth note triplets. When working on this exercise you'll need to concentrate on playing consistent, even triplets.

6 - EXERCISE #8

This exercise is a development of the previous one. Here, we'll again be using the down-up-pop sequence with an eighth note triplet rhythm, but this time applying it to a power chord figure. This is a technique that Victor Wooten used to great effect on 'The Sinister Minister', a track he recorded with Béla Fleck.

7 - EXERCISE #9

In this video we'll be taking the technique covered in the previous exercise and using it to play sixteenth note triplets. We'll then be using this idea 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. There are also some nice pentatonic fills in the second and fourth bars.

9 - EXERCISE #11

In this exercise we'll again be using the down-up-pop rhythm as a straight sixteenth note rhythm, and as a sixteenth note triplet rhythm.

10 - EXERCISE #12

This exercise is a funk groove based on an F7 chord. The groove itself should prove difficult to play if you've worked through all of the exercises so far, but 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.

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, this time for a simple groove over a D7 chord. The fourth bar features a Marcus Miller-inspired sixteenth note triplet fill.