Slap & Pop Progression on the Bass Guitar

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CASEY CORMIER: Okay. So we just learned the slapping and popping style, and we have just been alternating slap, pop, slap, pop right? This structure with our hands, our finger underneath looped [PLAYS SLAP AND POP] try to make our lines like staccato as opposed to legato [PLAYS SLAP AND POP]. Now let us try to create some pattern. This is not the reason that this was created; it is supposed to be a rhythmic function. This is a very popular one-and, two, one-and, two, one-and, two, one-and, two, slap-slap, pop-slap, slap-slap, pop-slap. Now let us apply that to some changes. This is a funk line that you might have heard before but is a very popular way of slapping and popping. So we are going to go slap-slap-pop-slap, slap-slap-pop-slap just once and then [PLAYS AND SINGS SLAP AND POP BASS LINE] and I am going to G, slap-slap, pop, slap-slap, pop [PLAYS BASS LINE]. Now try speeding that up. Here is with the metronome how it would sound like [PLAYS BASS LINE]. One, two, three, four, slap-slap, pop-slap, slap-slap-pop, slap-slap-pop, slap-slap, pop-slap, slap-slap-pop, slap-slap-pop. Now you might have to switch from there, from popping and slapping to regular plucking [PLAYS BASS LINE]. So be always ready to change. Remember, when you are popping and slapping, your hand is like this basically going along the neck but moving, you have to move it back up to pluck. So try not to alternate them too much until you get used to it.

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