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Summary: Play slap grooves on bass guitar; learn how with tips from our professional bass guitar instructor in this free music lesson video.
Carl Shepard is a professional bass instructor that works at Keller Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he is not busy teaching his students he spends time making music with his band...read more
"Hi! I am Carl Shepard, professional bass instructor, still going over some slap techniques here, one of the basic things that groove bass players do is simply just slap and hammer on at the same time. In Pentatonic scale say in E, we can use hammer ons and slapping as a very groove base technique and this will gets you more gigs than all the fancy stuff will, so people want bass players that can groove and that is the most important thing."
eHow Article: Slapping for the Groove with Bass Guitar
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josh12 said
on 8/2/2008 Any Bengals fan is alright by me ;-)
evuser14195 said
on 8/2/2008 OMG. Carl Shepard ROCKS (or GROOVES, as the case may be)! And has the cutest smile/smirk, too!