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Slap Bass – Double Thumbing (Part 3)

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This third and final double thumbing course adds another new ingredient into the mix: double popping. This will enable four notes per string to be played in quick succession using a downstroke, an upstroke and two pops. As you will discover, the combination of these elements will allow you to play almost anything with the double thumbing technique, even lines that would traditionally be played with the fingers.

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 content of this course, in which double popping will be incorporated into the double thumbing technique.

2. Four Notes per String

This lesson will show you how to play four notes on the same string using double thumbing and double popping. Initially this will be done on one string.

3. Exercise #4

This is a chord tone-based exercise and is a great workout for practicing the double thumbing/popping technique across all four strings.

4. Exercise #5

This exercise is a funk groove based on a D dominant seventh chord. The double thumbing/popping technique is used to play root-octave lines extensively here.

5. Exercise #6

This is another exercise that uses the double thumbing/popping technique to play root-octave figures. This can be very challenging to do consistently.

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, similar to a drummer’s 'flam'.

7. Exercise #8

This exercise is a groove based on a repeating down-up-pop sequence. The 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-style sixteenth note triplet lick 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 busy exercise was also adapted from a fingerstyle funk groove. Ghost notes are used extensively here, creating a continuous sixteenth note feel.

11. Exercise #12

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

12. Exercise #13

This exercise is a development of an earlier line. 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'. A root-octave figure is again here, in the fourth bar.

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.