Single Slap Boogie Woogie: Play Rockabilly Style Double Bass

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Ken Steiner for expertvillage.com. So now we’re going to start slapping and we’re going to start with the single slap technique. This is certainly the easiest thing and something you probably have to master before you move to any of the other techniques. When you’re doing the single slap what you want to do is pull the string away from the neck so that it will bounce off the neck when you release it……so the slap is the hitting of the string against the neck when you release it…let’s take a look at that boogie woogie line this time I’ll do it with the slap……"