Triple Slap Triplets: Play Rockabilly Style Double Bass

Part of the Video Series How to Play Double Bass: Lessons for Rockabilly

Viewing videos requires the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player.
Get the latest Flash player.

Play triplets for the triple slap boogie woogie double bass rhythm for rockabilly music; learn how with tips from our expert double bass player in this free music lesson video.

Contact: www.kensteiner.com

Rating:
Views: 2,854
Comments: 0 (comment now)

Favorited: 2 | Add to Favorites

Tags: bass, jazz
Bookmark at:

All Videos in the Series, How to Play Double Bass: Lessons for Rockabilly

Member Comments

Video Transcript

Triple Slap Triplets: Play Rockabilly Style Double Bass
Hi! Ken Steiner here for expertvillage.com. We’re going to continue now with some exploration on to the triple slap feel. In the previous section we talked about a triple slap with two feel kind of a swing feeling, another triple slap that if you hear a lot is one with a true triplet feel. Again this has the sort of a hit of a note and proceeded by a couple of slaps but this time instead of having sort of a swing feeling it’s a very strict triple feeling, see if I can demonstrate…….that’s got a straight triple feeling so you got……… Let’s see if I can slow that down a little bit so you can see what I’m doing……..again you notice I’m still keeping that sort of circular motion, it just makes it a lot easier it just gives you sort of muscle memory I guess or whatever. That’s to contrast with the other triple slap line I did earlier so the difference really is just in the way of the timing of the beat….you could hear the difference and it’s settled it’s just in the timing that I use to do the slaps.

About the Expert

Expert: Ken Steiner has been playing string bass professionally in the Boston area for over 40 years. Read More