Hammer-Ons, Pull-Offs & Trills
With the fundamentals of the slap and pop technique now in place, in this course we'll begin adding in phrasing techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs and trills, all of which will add flavour to your lines.
1 - Hammer-Ons, Pull-Offs & Trills
In this lesson we'll look at three important phrasing techniques - the hammer-on, the pull-off and the trill. These new elements will help add considerable interest to your slap and pop lines.
2 - Exercise #1
This exercise demonstrates some of the most commonly used hammer-on figures in slap bass. You will no doubt recognise them from many well known slap lines.
3 - Exercise #2
This exercise features several fills constructed from consecutive hammer-ons.
4 - Exercise #3
This exercise is a similar idea to Exercise #1, except that we're now going to be using pull-offs.
5 - Exercise #4
This is another slap and pop line that uses pull-offs. You’ll see some of the figures from the previous exercise appearing in this one as well.
6 - Exercise #5
This exercise features trills, with a few hammer-ons thrown in for good measure.
7 - Exercise #6
The line is sparse and really allows the trill to shine as a decoration. There are some challenging fingerings to navigate here.
8 - Exercise #7
The first two bars of this exercise feature a hammer-on and a pull-off one after the other.
9 - Exercise #8
This exercise is a simple slap and pop line with a few hammer-ons thrown in for good measure.
10 - Exercise #9
This exercise features a series of descending hammer-ons at the beginning of the first and third bars.
11 - Exercise #10
This exercise features some tricky syncopation. The first note of each hammer-on is a grace note and so needs to be played very quickly.
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