Chords for Slap Bass Technique
Tempo:
128.45 bpm
Chords used:
D
G
Em
A
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Since a few people have asked me about this, I wanted to make a video showing how it is that I
slap, my slap technique, and this is mostly referring [D] to this.
[Em]
[D] [N]
First and foremost I wanted to talk and mention about
the way that I slap with one finger, and I actually use my middle finger to pop.
This is after watching a video,
a clinic video by Brian Bromberg,
in which he said that, he had a really good point, and he said that if you
tilt your hand like so, you notice that the middle or the index finger
doesn't really have that popping motion to it.
It actually remains on an axis, and so there isn't really any mechanical movement that
would make it
do that popping motion, and as you see the rest of my fingers do.
And so the way that I actually have my hand positioned, it's much more comfortable for me to apply that and
you know the path of least resistance is a straight line indeed, and so when I do this, it's much more comfortable for me to
just pop with my
with my middle finger, and so this is after you know, it takes a while to condition your your finger to to do that instinctively.
But it really also depends.
I think there's a there's a factor of where your base sits on on your body.
With my strap and how I sit, this is how I now
have my base sitting on me, and so I prefer to have my
my hand almost as straight as possible, just to have that minor curve on it and not to have my
wrist bent at all, because no matter how much stretching I do, I always feel that I'm losing some sort of
mechanics when I or power maybe when I when I do it like that even [G] when I
[A]
pick with my [N] fingers, and even if I raise my elbow just a little bit,
it's just not the most comfortable thing for me, and so having it somewhat straight like this
really helps the fatigue factor as well, and so
this is the way that I've been practicing this, and so just to to make life simple and to get to [D] that kind of
[Em] [N] that sort of technique as fast as possible.
The way that I practice this is just going
you know, once you're comfortable with this movement and this kind of mechanism for for your hand,
doesn't matter if you do it like this
or this, whichever finger, once you're comfortable with that, do the same thing with two fingers,
and once you're comfortable with that, you can apply the left hand to it as well,
and then make it [E] somewhat
[Ab] [D] [Em]
[N] then you can make it musical, practice however way you want to, but at least you can achieve that kind of really cool [D] percussive thing
[G] that it [D] makes when
[A] [E] [Gm]
[A] It's [N] kind of cool.
So this is the way I practice it, and this is the way I apply it.
Once you get really familiar with that movement, you get comfortable with that movement, you can apply it to all sorts of exercises.
There's likely a billion other videos explaining this in a far more articulated way than I do,
but this is the way that I practice it, and I do encourage people to kind of check out Brian's technique.
I had the pleasure of
talking to him at the NAMM show in January,
and I told him how I've started applying this, and he showed me some other things like, you know,
the way that he uses it on the bass, and I asked him about two finger,
the two finger popping technique, and he does actually use his ring finger to [G] pop, and so this is something
I'm still [C] kind of
still [N] working on.
My ring finger is still very, very weak, and so will your
middle finger be weak as you're trying to implement that.
It takes a while, and takes a little bit of muscle memory and conditioning to get
that finger going.
So yeah,
[C] this
[G] is how to get that going.
You can obviously expand upon it, do whichever exercises.
There's no right or wrong.
Whatever feels comfortable, whatever feels natural to you,
go ahead and do it.
This is how I do things, and
hopefully this helps.
slap, my slap technique, and this is mostly referring [D] to this.
[Em]
[D] [N]
First and foremost I wanted to talk and mention about
the way that I slap with one finger, and I actually use my middle finger to pop.
This is after watching a video,
a clinic video by Brian Bromberg,
in which he said that, he had a really good point, and he said that if you
tilt your hand like so, you notice that the middle or the index finger
doesn't really have that popping motion to it.
It actually remains on an axis, and so there isn't really any mechanical movement that
would make it
do that popping motion, and as you see the rest of my fingers do.
And so the way that I actually have my hand positioned, it's much more comfortable for me to apply that and
you know the path of least resistance is a straight line indeed, and so when I do this, it's much more comfortable for me to
just pop with my
with my middle finger, and so this is after you know, it takes a while to condition your your finger to to do that instinctively.
But it really also depends.
I think there's a there's a factor of where your base sits on on your body.
With my strap and how I sit, this is how I now
have my base sitting on me, and so I prefer to have my
my hand almost as straight as possible, just to have that minor curve on it and not to have my
wrist bent at all, because no matter how much stretching I do, I always feel that I'm losing some sort of
mechanics when I or power maybe when I when I do it like that even [G] when I
[A]
pick with my [N] fingers, and even if I raise my elbow just a little bit,
it's just not the most comfortable thing for me, and so having it somewhat straight like this
really helps the fatigue factor as well, and so
this is the way that I've been practicing this, and so just to to make life simple and to get to [D] that kind of
[Em] [N] that sort of technique as fast as possible.
The way that I practice this is just going
you know, once you're comfortable with this movement and this kind of mechanism for for your hand,
doesn't matter if you do it like this
or this, whichever finger, once you're comfortable with that, do the same thing with two fingers,
and once you're comfortable with that, you can apply the left hand to it as well,
and then make it [E] somewhat
[Ab] [D] [Em]
[N] then you can make it musical, practice however way you want to, but at least you can achieve that kind of really cool [D] percussive thing
[G] that it [D] makes when
[A] [E] [Gm]
[A] It's [N] kind of cool.
So this is the way I practice it, and this is the way I apply it.
Once you get really familiar with that movement, you get comfortable with that movement, you can apply it to all sorts of exercises.
There's likely a billion other videos explaining this in a far more articulated way than I do,
but this is the way that I practice it, and I do encourage people to kind of check out Brian's technique.
I had the pleasure of
talking to him at the NAMM show in January,
and I told him how I've started applying this, and he showed me some other things like, you know,
the way that he uses it on the bass, and I asked him about two finger,
the two finger popping technique, and he does actually use his ring finger to [G] pop, and so this is something
I'm still [C] kind of
still [N] working on.
My ring finger is still very, very weak, and so will your
middle finger be weak as you're trying to implement that.
It takes a while, and takes a little bit of muscle memory and conditioning to get
that finger going.
So yeah,
[C] this
[G] is how to get that going.
You can obviously expand upon it, do whichever exercises.
There's no right or wrong.
Whatever feels comfortable, whatever feels natural to you,
go ahead and do it.
This is how I do things, and
hopefully this helps.
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G
Em
A
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Em
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Since a few people have asked me about this, I wanted to make a video showing how it is that I
_ slap, my slap technique, and this is mostly referring [D] to this.
_ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
_ First and foremost I wanted to talk and mention about
_ the way that I slap with one finger, and I actually use my middle finger to pop. _
This is after watching a video,
a clinic video by Brian Bromberg,
in which he said that, he had a really good point, and he said that if you
tilt your hand like so, you notice that the middle or the index finger
doesn't really have that popping motion to it.
It actually remains on an axis, and so there isn't really any mechanical movement that
would make it
do that popping motion, and as you see the rest of my fingers do.
And so the way that I actually have my hand positioned, it's much more comfortable for me to apply that and
you know the path of least resistance is a straight line indeed, and so when I do this, it's much more comfortable for me to
just pop with my
with my middle finger, and so this is after you know, it takes a while to condition your your finger to to do that instinctively.
_ _ But it really also depends.
I think there's a there's a factor of where your base sits on on your body.
_ With my strap and how I sit, this is how I now
_ have my base sitting on me, and so I prefer to have my
_ _ my hand almost as straight as possible, just to have that minor curve on it and not to have my
wrist bent at all, because no matter how much stretching I do, I always feel that I'm losing some sort of _
mechanics when I or power maybe when I when I do it like that even [G] when I
_ _ _ _ [A] _
pick with my [N] fingers, and even if I raise my elbow just a little bit,
it's just not the most comfortable thing for me, and so having it somewhat straight like this
really helps the fatigue factor as well, and so
_ this is the way that I've been practicing this, and so just to to make life simple and to get to [D] that kind of _
_ [Em] _ [N] that sort of technique as fast as possible.
_ The way that I practice this is just going _
you _ _ know, once you're comfortable with this movement and this kind of mechanism for for your hand,
doesn't matter if you do it like this
or this, whichever finger, once you're comfortable with that, do the same thing with two fingers, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ and once you're comfortable with that, you can apply the left hand to it as well, _
_ _ _ _ _ _ and then make it [E] somewhat_
[Ab] _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [N] then you can make it musical, practice however way you want to, but at least you can achieve that kind of really cool [D] _ _ percussive thing
_ [G] that it [D] makes when_
_ [A] _ [E] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] It's [N] kind of cool.
So this is the way I practice it, and this is the way I apply it. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Once you get really familiar with that movement, you get comfortable with that movement, you can apply it to all sorts of exercises.
_ There's likely a billion other videos explaining this in a far more articulated way than I do,
but this is the way that I practice it, and I do encourage people to kind of check out Brian's technique.
I had the pleasure of
talking to him at the NAMM show in January,
and I told him how I've started applying this, and he showed me some other things like, you know, _
the way that he uses it on the bass, and _ I asked him about two finger,
_ the two finger popping technique, and he does actually use his ring finger to [G] pop, and so this is something
I'm still [C] kind of _ _
_ still [N] working on.
My ring finger is still very, very weak, and so will your _
middle finger be weak as you're trying to implement that.
It takes a while, and takes a little bit of muscle memory and conditioning to get
that finger going.
So _ yeah,
[C] this _
_ [G] is how to get that going. _
You can obviously expand upon it, do whichever exercises.
There's no right or wrong.
Whatever feels comfortable, whatever feels natural to you,
_ go ahead and do it.
This is how I do things, and
_ hopefully this helps. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Since a few people have asked me about this, I wanted to make a video showing how it is that I
_ slap, my slap technique, and this is mostly referring [D] to this.
_ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
_ First and foremost I wanted to talk and mention about
_ the way that I slap with one finger, and I actually use my middle finger to pop. _
This is after watching a video,
a clinic video by Brian Bromberg,
in which he said that, he had a really good point, and he said that if you
tilt your hand like so, you notice that the middle or the index finger
doesn't really have that popping motion to it.
It actually remains on an axis, and so there isn't really any mechanical movement that
would make it
do that popping motion, and as you see the rest of my fingers do.
And so the way that I actually have my hand positioned, it's much more comfortable for me to apply that and
you know the path of least resistance is a straight line indeed, and so when I do this, it's much more comfortable for me to
just pop with my
with my middle finger, and so this is after you know, it takes a while to condition your your finger to to do that instinctively.
_ _ But it really also depends.
I think there's a there's a factor of where your base sits on on your body.
_ With my strap and how I sit, this is how I now
_ have my base sitting on me, and so I prefer to have my
_ _ my hand almost as straight as possible, just to have that minor curve on it and not to have my
wrist bent at all, because no matter how much stretching I do, I always feel that I'm losing some sort of _
mechanics when I or power maybe when I when I do it like that even [G] when I
_ _ _ _ [A] _
pick with my [N] fingers, and even if I raise my elbow just a little bit,
it's just not the most comfortable thing for me, and so having it somewhat straight like this
really helps the fatigue factor as well, and so
_ this is the way that I've been practicing this, and so just to to make life simple and to get to [D] that kind of _
_ [Em] _ [N] that sort of technique as fast as possible.
_ The way that I practice this is just going _
you _ _ know, once you're comfortable with this movement and this kind of mechanism for for your hand,
doesn't matter if you do it like this
or this, whichever finger, once you're comfortable with that, do the same thing with two fingers, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ and once you're comfortable with that, you can apply the left hand to it as well, _
_ _ _ _ _ _ and then make it [E] somewhat_
[Ab] _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [N] then you can make it musical, practice however way you want to, but at least you can achieve that kind of really cool [D] _ _ percussive thing
_ [G] that it [D] makes when_
_ [A] _ [E] _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] It's [N] kind of cool.
So this is the way I practice it, and this is the way I apply it. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Once you get really familiar with that movement, you get comfortable with that movement, you can apply it to all sorts of exercises.
_ There's likely a billion other videos explaining this in a far more articulated way than I do,
but this is the way that I practice it, and I do encourage people to kind of check out Brian's technique.
I had the pleasure of
talking to him at the NAMM show in January,
and I told him how I've started applying this, and he showed me some other things like, you know, _
the way that he uses it on the bass, and _ I asked him about two finger,
_ the two finger popping technique, and he does actually use his ring finger to [G] pop, and so this is something
I'm still [C] kind of _ _
_ still [N] working on.
My ring finger is still very, very weak, and so will your _
middle finger be weak as you're trying to implement that.
It takes a while, and takes a little bit of muscle memory and conditioning to get
that finger going.
So _ yeah,
[C] this _
_ [G] is how to get that going. _
You can obviously expand upon it, do whichever exercises.
There's no right or wrong.
Whatever feels comfortable, whatever feels natural to you,
_ go ahead and do it.
This is how I do things, and
_ hopefully this helps. _ _