Fretting Hand Slaps
In this course we'll be looking at ways in which we can use the fretting hand to perform ghost note slaps. Doing so adds an important rhythmic device to our slap bass toolkit, and allows for more complex, syncopated linear slap grooves.
1 - Fretting Hand Slaps (Part 1)
In this video we'll be discussing the concept of fretting hand slaps, and looking at two well-known bass grooves that use them.
2 - Fretting Hand Slaps (Part 2)
In this lesson we'll be learning how to perform fretting hand slaps. After some basic exercises, we'll be developing the concept into more complex, syncopated lines.
3 - With Fretted Notes
In this lesson we'll be learning how to employ fretting hand slaps with fretted notes.
4 - Incorporating Popped Notes
In this lesson, we'll begin incorporating popped notes into our lines. This adds an additional layer of complexity, meaning that with all of the techniques we now have at our disposal, some very complex, syncopated parts are possible.
5 - Exercise #13
This exercise is in the key of E minor and features fretting hand slaps following both open strings and fretted notes.
6 - Exercise #14
This exercise is a complex line written in the style of the slap grooves that Mark King played on the early Level 42 tracks.
7 - Exercise #15
This exercise is in the key of C minor and features fretting hand slaps following fretted notes. This line also includes some quite challenging syncopations.
8 - Exercise #16
This up-tempo exercise is based around a B dominant seventh chord and features some interesting syncopations and some major pentatonic lines.
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