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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:24:46 PM
Ultimate Slap Bass is an excellent book for bass players who wish to learn to play the slap bass. It is merely over 200 pages long and includes two slap bass lessons which feature recordings of a great deal of the lines and grooves listed in the ebook.
Stuart Clayton is a British author - and it has written over 10 how to play bass guitar books up to now, many of which are published by his Bassline Publications company.
One of many top features of the book I enjoy is that as Stuart goes with the basics to heightened topics also, he lists tunes you can find in iTunes that relate each step of the process. The ebook is split into three sections. The initial section is directed at beginners and features how to play slap bass basics, adding the pop, using hammer-ons and trills and pull offs, adding ghost notes plus a glimpse at some scales which can be regularly utilized by bassists who play slap.
The next section is perfect for intermediate bass players. Topics include left hand slaps and 16th note lines, introducing 10ths, machine gun triplets, double stops and double pops plus some strumming. Again you can find suggested tracks to listen to that relate these techniques.
The third section covers advanced topics - and includes slapping as well as the shuffle, open string hammer ons, and then some sections on the technique everyone wants to learn that has been popularized by Victor Wooten, the double thumb technique. There exists a final number of chapters on combining all of the techniques too into bass lines - there are several cool examples on this section.
The book is rounded off with some short interviews with bass players famous for slapping - and a few you might not have often heard a lot about. And there's a thorough slap bass discography too.
One last plus for that book is it is spiral bound, so that it sits nicely on your music stand while you process the book and you also do not have to damage the spine of the book to have it to put semi flat to actually work as a result. Why more music publishers don't do this can be beyond me.
Anyway in summary, this can be a will need to have book if you want to work with learning the slap style of bass. Combine this with how to play bass guitar and Slap It by Tony Oppenheim and you'll have a feast of stuff to operate on.
Stuart Clayton is a British author - and it has written over 10 how to play bass guitar books up to now, many of which are published by his Bassline Publications company.
One of many top features of the book I enjoy is that as Stuart goes with the basics to heightened topics also, he lists tunes you can find in iTunes that relate each step of the process. The ebook is split into three sections. The initial section is directed at beginners and features how to play slap bass basics, adding the pop, using hammer-ons and trills and pull offs, adding ghost notes plus a glimpse at some scales which can be regularly utilized by bassists who play slap.
The third section covers advanced topics - and includes slapping as well as the shuffle, open string hammer ons, and then some sections on the technique everyone wants to learn that has been popularized by Victor Wooten, the double thumb technique. There exists a final number of chapters on combining all of the techniques too into bass lines - there are several cool examples on this section.
The book is rounded off with some short interviews with bass players famous for slapping - and a few you might not have often heard a lot about. And there's a thorough slap bass discography too.
One last plus for that book is it is spiral bound, so that it sits nicely on your music stand while you process the book and you also do not have to damage the spine of the book to have it to put semi flat to actually work as a result. Why more music publishers don't do this can be beyond me.
Anyway in summary, this can be a will need to have book if you want to work with learning the slap style of bass. Combine this with how to play bass guitar and Slap It by Tony Oppenheim and you'll have a feast of stuff to operate on.
