Dark Necessities – Flea’s Funky Ghost Note Slap Style! (Tabs & Tutorial)
Dark Necessities by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers contains a great slap bass riff for practicing ghost notes. In this lesson we’ll look at how you can use the thumb of your fretting hand for getting those beefy ghost notes on the E string.
Dark Necessities Bassline
Like so many of Flea’s basslines, Dark Necessities is driven by an aggressive slapping and popping style – with lots of ghost notes to punctuate the tonality and add rhythmic intensity.
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Hi, the bass tabs for these song I found on the net show the ghost notes on A string (instead of E string). Is it so that we aim to use the thumb to mute the A string too?
I use left hand ghost note find it easier
thanx
I use left hand ghost note find it easier