Top 2 Slap Bass MISTAKES
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2017
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Slap bass... we ALL love it, right?
If you're aiming at being a pro bass player, being able to play a great slap bass line is essential and something that you'll be expected to do for certain songs and styles.
With that in mind, I thought I'd share what I believe to be the 2 BIG slap bass mistakes I see countless bass players making.
As always, I want hear back from you guys... make sure you let me know whether you've either made or are currently making these mistakes in the comments under the video.
Ooo... and I also announce the winner of the Darkglass Alpha Omega pedal compeition too...
See you in the shed,
Scott :)
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As a bass player for the last 20 years, primarily in the US, now live in the UK, this guy is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT correct in SO SO SO many of his comments. Its actually HARDER to play SLOW with feel than fast. I stumbled onto this video inadvertently but Scott, you are absolutely correct. Watch this cat, he GETS it! I am also someone who used to only slap in E (actually its usually harmonic Em, but I am nitpicking :). Slow and steady win the groove! WELL DONE Scott, whoever the hell you are. But you UNDERSTAND the fundamentals of good percussive bass! Bravo!
His last name is Scott Grove lololol only kiding
also, I think most people who slap just think that the root-octave are the only slap notes available.
Great groove...shows that you don't need to use a million notes to sound good..thanks Scott
michael tomazou its more about what you don't play, the muting, and space between notes. anyone can onslaught a load of notes. phrasing fewer notes well is harder but far more interesting.
Thanks Scott for all the videos! You are my favorite teacher out there! I learned a lot from you.
Scott, you are awesome. Your personality and teaching style are fantastic. I have been a teacher/trainer for a looooong time,. If you have had no formal instructional training, (or even if you have) KUDOS to you.
You are a really great teacher. I love your stuff, it has taught me so much.
I feel I would not be as competent on my bass if not for your lessons.
Keep up the fantastic work. Love ya.
you are without a doubt one of the most inspiring teachers on you tube. you can see the light in your eyes when you talk about music.. I hope you're around a long time to keep the young people motivated!!
Thanks for always making such fun and educational videos. I really am always inspired to try to make more time to practice after I watch them! :)
Those machine gun slapping sounds cool and all but its pretty hard to digest. Its those slow funky grooves are where its at!
agreed. its incredible how tasteful minimal slapping and popping can be, and there are so few instances in which one needs to go "Victor Wooten mode". Kind of like guitar players who only know how to shred but cant play rhythm, but I digress
Spazzsticks yeah, for example Tutu by Miles Davis is very simple and slow, but even so it's one of my favorites
Zodasg mine too. Such a great slap bass line.
yes. Overplay. slapping is still not a sportsevent.
skyreader society maybe in the future, like those snare contests
Man!! You're really incredible!!! Who in this planet gives in only one video + advices to slap + show you how to play a song + give away a super pedal ?? Thank you sooo much for all you do for us bassists.
Great video lesson Scott. Nice breakdown of the slap riff.
Excellent groove, and great sense of humor! Cheers from Chicago, Scotty
Scott you are the man! Great slap bass lesson. Totally enjoyed
GREAT VID.....You are SOOO Right on this stuff !!!!
Awesome. This is one of my fave Me'shell Ndegeocello tunes. Thanks man
This was exactly the kind of lesson i was searching for. Groovy and steady ("slow") slapping! thanks for the work Scott!
One of the mistakes i still practice on / see happening is a good way of demping the strings between the slaps to prevent those high singing voices
Love this! Great for beginners. Thank You
Hitting too hard is one of my pet peeves.
I can't have an amp in my flat so I used to practice unplugged.
And in order to hear myself I really hit the bass hard.
That's something I really need to work on...
Tuna Tourette same. I lived somewhere I couldn't own an amp, I played unamplified for at least over a year. next time I plugged in I realised how damned hard I picked
There are wireless amp pugins that you can listen to through headphones for about 40 bucks. I've also thought about how I'd adjust to apartment life as a guitar player and this is something I'd really reccomend.
Tuna Tourette bass combo amp and a decent pair or headphones/ear buds?
Thanks for the video.. loved it.. gave me even more drive to learn how to play bass. (y)
hey Scott i really like your slapping techniques so nice while im listening at your video lesson.
Finally, to show people the common MISTAKES made is a FAR better tool of instruction than saying "this is what you do...". Avoid the pitfalls, you clear the hurdle! I like and respect this bass player. Well done. Subscribed.
my bass hanging on the wall for 5 years after i quit from the music,,
after im watching your bass lesson videos , i decide to restore my passion to bass guitar ..
very great and helpfull video sir..
Another great vid Scott! Going on month 6 of playing bass and I have definitely been playing all my slap in the key of E, didn't even think about it. Thanks for pointing it out!
Love fish and chips!
this was a really cool video. awesome tips !!
Ah ahhh that's sounds so good!!! Love that Thank you Scott!!!
Awesome Scott, cheers!
I have played country bass for years this is so different I love it Thanks for posting :-)
Thanks for this. A great help for me
great vid...thank you Scott
Good points. Getting out of the key of E, and control challenge of slowing down. Another slap challenge is not playing in 4/4 all of the time, like 6/8 for example.
Scott! Great video and man do I love Me'Shell!
The way, my favorite song from Me'shell! Lovelly tune!! Excellent choice!!
I've never learned so much about bass guitar playing from any other RUclips video. Period. It's funny; Scott's pace of presentation feels slow for the non-musical business but really works out when it comes to dealing with the music.
oh yeah! great great tune and lesson
Scott as a guitar player for over 35 years, these have been some serious lessons. After all the bass is one cool and seriously interestingly rythm and lead instrument. It really has improved my chops as a guitarist and yes I am taking bass more seriously.
Don't know how you do it, everything your playing sounds just amazing. Even if your just playing 2 notes. Thanks for trying to give something to us!!
thanks, what beautiful track! I play the main bass line on the A and G strings since for some reason the sound on my E on higher frets is not so great...
This how funky should sound, great riff and love your lessons!
Thank you so much for this video
Scott! You the man!!
Gonna go home and learn this riff. Love this groove.
Thank you very, very much !!! :-) it helps a lot to grasp the idea of how to slap :-)
you seem to be the only bass teacher that has ever made sense to me for a long time
very clear
Hey Scott!
I really agree on your two most common mistakes. I use to have a slightly weird problem where I'd tend to freeze for a little bit while changing between slap and fingered. Still happens every now and then, like my brain going "eh, what are you doing now?" before transition of my hand position.
Cheers for the lessons!
Fantastic baseline. Cheers!
That's a wicked groove!
Dat groove doe 👌
Nice vid! Slap bass is a feel. One of the hardest things to master on a bass. And there are multiple different feels to master.
What a cool song to learn slap! Thanks!
A bit of Me'Shell N'degeOcello - that deserves a thumbs up for your Mr Scott's Bass Lessons
Hey, thanks for the shout out :-)
yes mate, hope ya doing great man! :)
Hey Scott thanks for sharing, im a big fan of yours :) Im from Mèxico and soon im going to visit London, i was wondering is there a chance to see you playing? How can i know about your gigs?
Awesome sharing Scott
Thank for showing me The Way and Merry Christmas to you and your family
Awesome advice! I can't slap fast anyways so I appreciate the lesson. I also noticed that almost every super fast slap line can be slowed down to good effect.!
well done Lorenzo! Yay! :D
(cries silently inside).
Same "_"
no matter how hard I try I just suck at slap Bass I don't care what tempo what key whatever I just can't get it.....lol
John P yet
Keep practicing it. Don't give up. You'll get it as Iong as you doing give up...I felt the same way, but kept going and now I'm slappy happy!
John P I became a happier person when I finally gave up on it.
It took me more then a half year to see some improvement on my slap bass. First thing I tried to learn was rhcp's get up and jump. goddamn it was too hard. Then I changed my hand position, realised that flea has a very different style and there are plenty of better players :D and after 1 year I learned marcus miller's power :D So, don't give up man, keep practicing at least 30 min p/day and the day will come :3
Seen თეზი The teacher I had as a teen was very good and he helped me a lot with technique, but I wasn't feeling it. I stopped playing altogether for a long time (I'm 32 now) because I was frustrated with myself, and took it back up like a year ago. I don't get frustrated anymore except when I play slap. Maybe I'll try again sometime, but right now everything it does is making me want to toss the bloody bass away and I don't have a lot of time to practise, so I'm focusing on other things.
Thanks for the advice though! :)
Nice vid...simple groove gets it done,
So glad to see Me'shell Ndegeocello getting some love here...she is SO damn funky.
So. Damn. Funky.
Great video. I love the great musicianship of your slap rhythms. Great point about open positions. I'll have to check out your finger abs fretboard/modes to get down pat.
I think ghost notes are the hardest part of slapping at the beginning. It's a whole new concept! Don't you agree?
Dude this is so true! I couldn't wrap my head around slapping in any other key haha
You have great economy of motion when it comes to slap (which I think is mistake #3). And which is, of course, also important with the other hand. Do you have any vids on economy of motion? Thanks. Just found this channel & love it!!
Great video man! Thanks for covering Meshell I think she's a great player. FunKey!!
That's a funky ass bass line. I love it!
The thoughts of this clip are noted but the real (hidden) value of this clip is the sample you used Scott. The artist Ndegeocello has a number of very fine songs out there (and she is the bass player as well as lead vocal). The more I sample her music, the richer it becomes. Try her song called 'Make Me Wanna Holler', written for her, by Marvin Gaye. He performed a song by the same sub-name years ago - 'Inner City Blues'. The lyrics he wrote first time portray the same struggle as her version but with very different situation the 2nd time. -- as always, enjoying your way of explaining da bass.
There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents.
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@@art-oq1pi You mean Himler! His head of marketing...
Very valid points Scott. I remember reading in an interview, it may have been Stanley Clarke that said it had to move away from E. I really liked John patitucci's tune Growing which was in C# and I worked on that. Being left handed and playing right handed I don't have a lot of speed so I can't play Lessons in Love as fast as Mark King but it's fun to try. In the slow tempo department I think Marcus Miller does it great and he uses popping sparingly just before the down beat. It's cool to try and emulate different players styles and make it part of your repertoire and today we have so much easy access to audio and video that makes it easier to learn than when I started around the Jurassic period.BTW, I do like fish and chips.
Thanks so very very much!!!
Thanks for introducing me to another artist. Never heard of her before and I like it.
Oh and battered sausage is miles better than fish!
Hey Scott, I'm curious on your opinion of Les Claypool and his riffs
Hayden Bosler me too!
Mark King too
4:15
Periphery!
Wow, cool) You're even more openminded musician than I thought)
Very nice Scott, I use to slap too hard and popped only the G string
duuuuuude! i had a lot of respect for you to begin with but Peace Beyond Passion is my favourite Meshell Ndegeocello album!! you the king mo!!
I saw Me'Shell Ndegeocello play 20 years ago in Chicago at the Park West... amazing performance. In my top ten all time live bass performances.
This is a great video. Maybe this is why, although I like the style, I find slap and pop tiring to listen to. I personally like the idea of mixing finger style and slap. This video definitely gave me some great ideas for further exploration though!
OMG I love you Scott! That bass face you make! YASSSS!!!
Very accurate statement! I would also add two more: too many pops TOGETHER with weak sounding slaps.
I would highly recommend Nathan East with Fore Play - a great example of slapp bass playing grooves
I'm a new sub and left a like for the fish n chips but totally dig your tips! I do various bass vids on my channel, usually videogame music covers but love incorporating slap bass when i can. Great channel man!!
Awesome keep it
Nice video!
What a tune! Congrats Lorenzo, guess I'll have to pay for mine with good old money :') haha
Nice groove, and a great help to learn how to slap, I noticed that in this video Scott talks about the consistent slap motion in the right hand but in other videos he talks about doing a thumb-slap-thumb pluck, which isn't consistent with that, I can feel that I'm missing something in there but I can't tell what.
Also, I come from a relatively advanced theory background, and it sounds to me like the Db minor pentatonic fits really well in this key without any void notes. With that in mind, the Db minor pentatonic is actually the exact same thing as the E major pentatonic it just starts on the sixth
Db-minor pent
Db-Fb-Gb-Ab-Cb-Db
E-maj pent
E-F#-G#-B-C#-E
(Due to enharmonics, Db=C# just as Ab=G# so the notes are all the same)
So this song actually is (well, sort of) in the key of E. Though there are complications if using the actual ionian mode in E (the traditional major scale)
Thanks for another good lesson Scott. In the 70's everything 'slappy' seemed to be in E. Shakey Ground, Play that funky music etc. More recently I've got away from EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, learning songs like 'I Like It, by De Barge. Not too tricky but sounds interesting.
Great playing Scott and I love your videos... just wanted to mention one thing..wouldn't it be easier to think of the key as C#minor? Relative to E Major..
Nice!!
This guy doing amazing job.
Great tune to use as an example! although the PDF that appears in the vid is for a slap/pop exercise in E? Was that a mistake?
Great!!!
I watched this video because Scott is a great bassist and tutor, hes very humble, Meshelle is an ambassador of creativity and has volumes of work. and i think we should appreciate Scott and his teams efforts to deliver an excellent platform for novice and more experienced bassists. p.s. i also like fish and chips :)
That is one filthy groove❤️
Start at 2:49
Nice video 😄
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHcongrats Lorenzo, enjoy it bro :) Holding thumbs for another chance to win some Darkglass magic +Scott's Bass Lessons
Hey Scott what's up with the Billy Sheehan pedal and combo amp giveaway?Have I missed it?Great video btw! :)
hey scott, long time fan here, just wondering what pickups you have on your bass, I have a MiJ Fender Jaguar Deluxe and am looking to change the pickups, any suggestions? im looking for a real punchy tone. Im playing through an ampeg ba112 combo at the moment while I save up for my cab. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
that's one saucy groove
Excellent video, Scott I have a question. What is the use you give your gloves? Are they of any specific material? Finally you could advise me where I can buy them
Cesar Enrique Escobar He has a condition where his hand shakes, wearing the glove makes it stop.
Hey Scott. Thanks for what you are doing. What's the name of the artist and the album in this tutorial that you used to illustrate? It sounds really cool. Also I still find it difficult to register in the annual membership
Yeah! What groove¡ 😎🤙
Nice!
Yep, never gave it too much thought, but whenever I slap, I usually hover around or just stay in E to use that low string as a crutch when I run out of ideas of where to go and need to reset my left hand. Good to know.