Double Slap Boogie Woogie: Play Rockabilly Style Double Bass

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Ken Steiner for expertvillage.com. Okay now it’s time to start working on the double slap. Double slap is maybe the most prevalent form of slap used and you hear it all the time in Rockabilly music, it combines the single slap that we’ve just learned with an additional slap against the board. The key thing about the double slap is that the slap against the board precedes are anticipates the actual note 1, 2, 3, 4………take a look at that a little more carefully, so if I’m doing just a regular playing it would be something like this….in a single slap it’ll be….with a double slap it’ll be….. When I was learning this that was one of the trickiest thing that I had to figure out it’s that you have to anticipate the beat so that if you’re playing and you decide you’re going to go into a double slap if you wait until the one of the beat of the music the slap has already passed you by, so you have to anticipate it before you play it so that you can get that slap in before the one in the beat so let’s play that boogie woogie line now with the double slap……. I played that right now in sort of a pretty easy tempo but when you listen to Rockabilly it’s pretty wild you’re going to hear some pretty fast playing, it’ll be something like this………..when you hear it like that all the sudden you say, “oh yeah that’s what I hear in the Rockabilly play.”"