Essential Slap Bass Skills: 7 Exercises for Success

Get your slap bass chops up to scratch with this bass guitar tutorial complete with free PDF containing seven slap bass exercises. 

You'll work on:

  • Thumb technique
  • popping technique
  • Muting
  • Timing
  • Hammer-ons
  • Minor Pentatonic slap licks
  • Seven exercises


7 Slap Bass Guitar Exercises


Resources

To dive deeper into funk bass techniques (there is some slap in the following resources but also finger style):

  1. Funk Bass Course [COURSE]
  2. 100 Funk Grooves for Electric Bass [BOOK]

The book was written before the course. The course takes 40 of the 100 grooves and goes in depth into style, tone, technique, and theory.

There's tons of good stuff on rhythm, bass line construction, a bit of slap bass, and how to get your timing and technique together.


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