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Parts of a Bass
Getting Started with Bass Guitar
Stringing a Bass
Stretching Bass Strings Before Tuning
Tuning a Bass (By Ear)
Tuning a Bass (Electronic)
Fretboard Markers
Bass Scale : C Major
Bass Scale : C Minor
Bass Chord : C Major
Bass Chord : C Minor
Picking Hand Technique
Bass Technique : Hammer Ons and Pull Offs
Bass Technique : Popping and Slapping
Writing a Bassline
Summary: Learn the bass guitar technique popping and slapping to create funky basslines.
Dalton Chamblee has been playing the bass guitar for over 10 years. He is a member of the band Fatback Circus. More information about him and his band can be found at
"Hi, my name is Dalton, and today we’re going to learn how to pop and slap and get that funky sound we like to get out of our bass. The first thing is you got to get your thumb loose, and then you just slap it, slap it like you’re mad at it. That gives you a slapping sound, and you can do that to any string. To get it’s counterpart, the plucking sound which people call the pop, you take your finger just like you’re playing regular, but you kind of pull it up hard. It kind of gives you a fierce popping sound. So when you mix the two, you get kind of a popping slapping noise. When you mix this with other chords, and other notes, you can do something cool like this. "
eHow Article: Bass Technique : Popping and Slapping
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pyrofiction said
on 11/4/2008 I respect your work... But there is one correction in the slapping technique... When your slapping,you have to slap near the 24th fret... It gives you that sound of the slap,like 30% harmonic and 70% tone,that gives the slap that kind of sound... Or near the one of the pickups,that gives you the greasier sound,but to me it's kinda ugly...:P It isn't all in hitting the wires.. Just don't want hundreds of people learning it the wrong way...
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emmanuel3 said
on 8/2/2008 i am happy to have this lesson,it is so good and i enjoin it so as to understand it now i have got so changes in playing the bass most in bass line.Hey if i need to have a bass from their how much will it cost because from now i am using a coolege bass and in 2008 it will be my last year so that i need to have my bass.my email;mmnlndale@yahoo.co.uk TANZANAI(Bagamoyo).
griffjr59 said
on 8/2/2008 It is nice to hear you play what you play and your good at it, but you don't teach anything! It's all about playing for you.
baac said
on 8/2/2008 jagclarke - it's Higher Ground,, at least the Red Hot Chili Peppers version of it.
jagclarke said
on 8/2/2008 what is the name of that song he played at the end