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Double Thumbing – Part 3

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In this third and final part of the double thumbing course we will be adding a new ingredient into the mix - double popping. This will enable us to play four notes per string in rapid succession, using downstrokes, upstrokes and two pops. As you will see, the combination of all of these elements will allow us to play pretty much anything with the double thumbing technique, even lines that would traditionally be played with the fingerstyle technique.

1 - INTRODUCTION

In this video we'll be discussing the content of this course, in which we'll be adding double popping to the double thumbing technique.

2 - FOUR NOTES PER STRING

In this video we'll be learning how to play four notes on the same string using the double thumbing and double popping techniques. We'll initially be doing this on one string, then across all four strings.

3 - EXERCISE #4

This exercise will allow you to practice the double thumbing/popping technique across all four strings. We'll be splitting the sequence across the strings for the first time in this line.

4 - EXERCISE #5

This exercise is a funk groove based on a D dominant seventh chord. We'll be using the double thumbing/popping technique to play octave lines quite extensively here.

5 - EXERCISE #6

This is another exercise that uses the double thumbing/popping technique to play octave figures.

6 - EXERCISE #7

In this exercise the double popped notes are played as thirty-second notes. In this way they become a key percussive element in the line, similar in style to the way a drummer might play a 'flam'.

7 - EXERCISE #8

This exercise is a funk groove in G based on a repeating down-up-pop sequence. The challenging fill in the fourth bar is a more melodic line than is typically played with the slap technique.

8 - EXERCISE #9

This exercise again features double popped thirty-second notes used as 'flam'. It also includes a Marcus Miller-esque sixteenth note triplet fill in the final bar.

9 - EXERCISE #10

This complex line started life as a busy fingerstyle funk line and was adapted to be played with the double thumbing/popping technique.

10 - EXERCISE #11

This exercise also started life as a fingerstyle funk groove. Ghost notes are used extensively here.

11 - EXERCISE #12

This exercise is similar in style to Jaco Pastorius's fingerstyle line on the Weather Report classic 'River People' and uses the double thumbing/popping technique to play octave figures.

12 - EXERCISE #13

This exercise is a development of a line that was used back in the second double thumbing video course. This time, some percussive thirty-second notes have been added for rhythmic interest.

13 - EXERCISE #14

This is a slow tempo groove that again features percussive thirty-second note 'flams'.

14 - EXERCISE #15

This line is built on a down-up-pop sequence that is used to play double chromatic approach notes to the chord tones of a G major chord. It also features a quick-fire melodic fill in the fourth bar.