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In this final section of the Intermediate Slap Bass course, we'll looking at some new slap and pop grooves that combine everything that we've covered in the previous courses. This will include fretting hand slaps, machine gun triplets, tenths, double stops and chord strumming.

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This course is 1 HOUR long and contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:

1. Introduction & Exercise #1

In this video we'll talk through the content of this course, and then we'll be working through Exercise #1, which is a busy groove in E minor that features double stops, fretting hand slaps and machine gun triplets!

2. Exercise #2

This exercise is based in a G minor tonality and features some double popping phrases and some sliding tenth figures.

3. Exercise #3

This line is in the key of D minor and again makes quite extensive use of the double popping technique.

4. Exercise #4

This line is played over a B dominant seventh sound, and uses a very common chord voicing for this tonality. It also includes some popped double stops and strummed chords.

5. Exercise #5

This exercise is written in the style of the continuous sixteenth note lines that Stuart Hamm played on tracks such as 'Count Zero' and 'Call of the Wild'.

6. Exercise #6

This line is in the key of D major and features strummed chordal parts. As well as using open string tenth chords, we'll also be strumming triads and seventh chords here.

7. Exercise #7

This is another exercise that is played over a B dominant seventh sound. This line features many classic funk figures, but also includes some machine fun triplets for rhythmic interest.

8. Exercise #8

This exercise makes good use of tenths, a popular harmonic device on the bass.

9. Exercise #9

This exercise has a quicker tempo and is similar in style to Larry Graham's classic slap bassline from the song 'Hair'. This is essentially a repeated two-bar groove with embellishments.

10. Exercise #10

This rather frantic sounding exercise was written in the style of the lines that Flea played on early Red Hot Chili Peppers albums. Although there are a lot of notes going by here, hopefully you'll find that this line is not as hard to play as it might seem.