Video: Palm Muting Techniques for Slap Bass

Use palm muting techniques for playing slap bass; learn how with tips from bass guitar expert and bass legend Tony Newton in this free music instruction video.

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valokuva2001 Aug 02, 2008

hello,i would like to tank you for the help you gave me... i just not quite get the correct position of the right hand and how to make it work in the way it should be with the tumb got no problem is to pick the chord that is difficoult for me...any suggestion? thanks a lot...

valokuva2001 Aug 02, 2008

qdoggg Aug 02, 2008

mate your a legend! good on you. thanks heaps.

qdoggg Aug 02, 2008

mate your a legend! good on you. thanks heaps.

Video Transcript

Hi, I'm Tony Newton from Expert Village and we're talking about slap bass today. We're going to be talking about muting (hand muting both hands). This is a very important concept, when you're playing slap bass, because half of it is the slapping and half of it is muting. The muting all happens from the left hand. What we're going to do is just go over some sounds to get familiar with muting. Just hold your hand over the neck and don't push the strings down, but hold your fingers on the strings so that they do not ring when you hit them. You'll get this type of sound. Let's start off with just some muting (like that). 1 (nothing or lift up the hand). This is actually the sound. When you come back on the string that's actually the sound like this (music example). That's some of the stuff that you can get into. That's with no notes, just this (music example). Let's add some notes to that (music example). Let's add a pop to that (music example). We can also.. (music example). That's it for some muting, practice that alot, then you'll get very good at it.

Palm Muting Techniques for Slap Bass

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