This week I’m answering a request for the slap riff from the song Can’t Stop by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. This riff by Flea is fairly straightforward as long as you’ve got a good grasp of playing ghost notes. The ‘Can’t Stop’ Riff Can’t Stop by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers is a great…
I’m going to work through 5 easy slap bass riffs that should help with developing your slap/pop action. The rhythms are all limited to 8th notes (no tricky 16th note syncopation in there) and there are no extra techniques such as slides, ghost notes, hammer ons etc. 5 Easy Slap Pop Riffs These five slap…
In this video I’m going to be showing you how to play the main riff from the tune 43 by Level 42. This is a classic Mark King slap riff and pretty tough to learn when you first try it. 43 – Level 42 – Riff Breakdown 43 is a classic slap bass riff played…
This week’s bass lesson covers something I’ve been asked about quite a lot over the past few months: The Double Thumb Technique. This is a slap bass technique pioneered by Victor Wooten and involves a very different kind of slap bass thumb motion. Have fun!! The Double Thumb Technique Double thumbing is a slap technique…
This week I show you how to play the opening slap line from all the talkingbass.net videos. It’s a fairly easy line as long as you have a little slap technique. The Talkingbass Lick! The intro slap lick to the Talkingbass lessons has been requested many times. In coming up with the line I basically…
This week I’m looking at what I call the Rest Stroke slap technique which has been made really popular by Victor Wooten. The lesson looks at differences between the bounce and the rest stroke and the pros and cons of both.
This week I’m giving you a pretty tough slap line from the tune Run For Cover by David Sanborn. The riff is by Marcus Miller and should test you whatever your level. The Basic Riff Run For Cover can be a really tough line to nail and it’s worth learning it in smaller sections. First…
This week I’m going to give you a fast slap lick similar to the kind of things you might see from Victor Wooten. If you’ve not played any slap bass before then I suggest you work through some of my other slap lessons first. If you have played slap bass before then just work through…