Slapping With Triplets Bass Guitar Technique

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Part of the video series: How to Play the Bass Guitar

Summary: Play slap bass guitar with triplets; learn how with tips from our professional bass guitar instructor in this free music lesson video.

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By Carl Shepard
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Contact: www.entheosmusic.com

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

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jackiesly said

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on 9/20/2008 Carl,
I found the 'Slapping With Triplets" technique to be very effective. It really allows one to add a lot of percussive feel to a Bass line. Thanks!

Jackiesly

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"Hi! I am Carl Shepard with expertvillage.com talking about advanced bass techniques and slap. If you know how to slap then this triplet exercise will be fun for you. All you have to do is hammer on a note here, so I am going to use an open string at A, hammer onto 5 hit it again with my thumb and then slap up here to the seventh fret. So put it all together and you have a triplet and you could do that anywhere on the guitar and I gives you have really a cool percussive sound. It sounds great with the drummer and if you add a mute in there, it will get even more percussive when it gets a little bit more technical. So hammer-ons and plucking your octave is going to give you the triplet technique."

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