Slap Bass Guitar Using Pentatonic Scale

Video Transcript

"Hi! I am Carl Shepard, professional bass instructor showing some slap techniques here. Another slap technique that we do is hammer on up on the Pentatonic scale and we are going all the way up the scale and we are hammering on the whole time that was pretty fast, I will go a bit slow, so there is a pluck at the top, two slaps on the A and the D string there, if you wanted to you could add the E string. So yeah, it is a definite fast technique the slower you do it, may be the more awkward it can be, so once you get comfortable with the whole slapping thing, this is something you can do and mess around with. With the Pentatonic scale, it does not matter what scale you use, you could use a minor scale, you could use a major scale, but it is definitely a popular technique among advanced bass players."