Slap Bass Exercises

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-Hello GMC ! Today we have a exercise lesson on our hands.You are going to learn a set of exercises that will help you start with or develop your existing slab bass technique.This is the fastest way of getting slapping down and developing strength and durability needed.

This lesson includes :
* number of exercises aimed for development of right and left hands in slap bass style of playing
* prepared loop able guitar pro file for practicing and playing along as well as mp3 audio backing tracks with a real drums groove for more fun practicing covering a large number of tempos

-Scale used for composing these exercises was G major scale.

-Key: G
-Tempo: 110 bpm (you control tempo when you practice)
-Time signature: 4/4
-Difficulty: for all levels of playing
-Tuning: standard EADG

Equipment I used for getting this sound was: Peavey Cirrus bass with active pickups, equal mix of both of them with added bass and treble on on board eq - then going to the nemesis(eden) amp with a 1x15" and slightly added bass and treble there (at 1 o'clock position).

Feel free to ask me any questions in the lesson feedback and in the forum.

Enjoy and have a lot of fun practicing your thumpin' skills!

Lesson Questions, Feedback & Comments

Kristofer Dahl	22nd March 2008
GMC Founder & Rocker	Bogdan I think you did a great job in making these useful exercises sound really interesting and cool - thanks!

Muris Varajic	22nd March 2008
Instructor	Great exercises and grooves!

Nick325	22nd March 2008
Member	nice bogdan

Nemanja Filipovic	22nd March 2008
Singing Instructor	great exercises Bole...

Capt.Z	22nd March 2008
Member	sounds cool.

SinoMan	22nd March 2008
Member	Great. Now I just need a bass.

Pablo Vazquez	22nd March 2008
Instructor	Cool lesson, as always!!

USAMAN	22nd March 2008
Member	You'll make a bass player of me yet....Thanks bogdan

Siggum	22nd March 2008
Member	nice excercises

Nick Kellie	22nd March 2008
Instructor	slaptastic!

Bogdan Radovic	23rd March 2008
Bass Instructor	Thanks people for such a nice feedback! Exercises can be boring but are essential for progress I did my best not to make them that way though Cheers

Joe Kataldo	23rd March 2008
Instructor	Cool I've just started learning slap on bass

Bogdan Radovic	23rd March 2008
Bass Instructor	Thats great Joe ! You can than incorporate same ideas into guitar playing too

Ivan Milenkovic	23rd March 2008
Instructor	Great lesson Bole, nice and groovy exercises!

kaznie_NL	23rd March 2008
Member	Nice Job. You did this in a way that it stil sounds cool, that's very good.

Hisham Al-Sanea	23rd March 2008
Instructor	good job Bogdan.welldone

Danilo Capezzuto	24th March 2008
Instructor	Cool Bogdan!

Dejan Farkas	25th March 2008
Instructor	Sounds great, nice grooves

Juan M. Valero	25th March 2008
Instructor	really interesting !! I'm gonna try them with my guitar

Bogdan Radovic	26th March 2008
Bass Instructor	Thanks guys! Your feedback means much to me!

Carlos Carrillo	29th March 2008
Instructor	nice lesson Bogdan!!!!