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Summary: Add rhythm to your slap bass playing; learn how with tips from bass guitar expert and bass legend Tony Newton in this free music instruction video.
A professional musician and bassist since the 1960s, Tony Newton has been hailed as a "super genius [who] will go down in history as one of the most vital path-forgers of our era” by...read more
"Hi, I'm Tony Newton from expert village. We're talking about slap bass today. We're going to add some more rhythms to our basic thumb pattern. We just finished this with some muting. So now i'm going to play different rhythms like quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenths, etc. For different types of music. Let's say you're doing some rock. (Plays Music). Okay, let's do some shuffleing. (Plays Music). Okay now we'll do some motown (let's say). (Plays Music). Alright, so maybe some Hip Hop (plays music). Now all of that has to do with the thumb. Just using the thumb only. We'll move onto the next session, and we'll add some other notes and some other fingers."
eHow Article: How to Add Rhythm to Slap Bass
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