Chords for Blues Bass Lesson - #30 Funk Slap Style - Andrew Ford

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_ One of the great things about blues is that you can use and adapt a lot of other styles of music to fit in that blues context.
Whether it's rock or jazz, you can bring those influence or those styles of playing into a blues context and really make it the blues.
One of those things that can be added or used in blues, one of those styles of playing is funk-based slapping.
Just need to make sure, take care that you're being musical and as melodic as possible and not disturbing the groove.
One way I do that is by playing more with my thumb and less picking.
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There you notice I did quite a bit of using the thumb.
Actually, I didn't pick until the last beat of the first bar.
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So the last _ beat of each bar, I kind of went to the picking _ for a dynamic shift.
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ I kept that groove going which would fit right in the pocket with the drums, _ not be too sharp or bring too much attention to itself, which the picks a lot of times they [F] do.
_ Just by the nature of _ how they sound, they