Slap Bass Tutorial | Essential Techniques for a Great Tone!

In this slap bass lesson tutorial, you’ll learn the essential slap bass techniques needed to achieve a funky, clean tone with solid groove and control. The Groove exercises in the video are basslines I've used to work on my slap groove and get progressively harder throughout to give you a challenge!

Accompanying transcription pdf available here: https://payhip.com/b/rOa2T

This lesson focuses on building strong fundamentals while improving tone, timing, and consistency. Perfect for bass players who want to learn to slap bass, improve slap bass tone and clarity, develop a funky slap bass groove, clean up thumb, pop, and muting technique and sound tighter and more musical when slapping

Covered in this slap bass tutorial:
-Essential slap bass thumb technique
-Clean and controlled popping
-Effective muting for a clean tone
-Groove-focused slap bass exercises
-How to get a funky slap bass sound that sits in the mix
-Whether you’re new to slap bass or refining your technique, this slap bass lesson will help you build confidence, improve tone, and lock into the groove.

Video Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:58 Level 1
03:25 Demo 1
03:55 Level 2
05:36 Demo 2
06:06 Level 3
06:53 Demo 3
07:22 Level 4
09:12 Demo 4
09:42 Level 5
10:29 Demo 5

Practice along daily to build your groove!

Gear Used: Sire Marcus Miller V7 Vintage Bass

Gear Links:
Sire V7 Vintage - https://thmn.to/thoprod/446323?offid=1&affid=4424
Strings: https://thmn.to/thoprod/322835?offid=1&affid=4424
Preamp - https://thmn.to/thoprod/582657?offid=1&affid=4424
IEMs - https://thmn.to/thoprod/557284?offid=1&affid=4424
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More Slap Bass Lessons: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiOyrVR8JiBGWWiMVa2mYaPGW9-D4seo1&si=fwDKETcv_lJwvmeN

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