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Slap Bass with Joe Santerre
Join Joe Santerre as he gives you all the basics you need to learn slap bass. Joe is a 25 year Berklee College of Music instructor, and his step by step method will get you going on slap bass in no time!
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About this course
Join Joe Santerre as he gives you all the basics you need to learn slap bass. Joe is a 25 year Berklee College of Music instructor, and his step by step method will get you going on slap bass in no time!
What you'll learn
- Achieve good tone with thumb slap technique
- Recognize the importance of string freshness for slap tone
- Learn optimal EQ settings for slap bass sound
- Understand how equipment affects slap bass tone
- Develop solid groove and timing in slap bass context
Release date: 12/30/2015 • 2h 16m runtime
Sample lessons
Four Chord Octave Slap
Lift-Offs and Hammer-Ons
Fret Hand Only Hammer-Ons
Double Thumbing
What's included
16 lessons • 14 charts
Series Introduction
Joe Santerre brings his 25+ years as a Berklee College of Music instructor to Jamplay in his Slap Bass series. From basic topics like tone and hand position to skillful fret board and slap hand techniques, Joe covers it all in this series! To get started, in this lesson Joe talks about his series, and gives you an initial run down of the bass and proper hand positioning.
Slap Bass Basics 1
Joe Santerre brings his 25+ years as a Berklee College of Music instructor to Jamplay in his Slap Bass series. From basic topics like tone and hand position to skillful fret board and slap hand techniques, Joe covers it all in this series! To get started, in this lesson Joe talks about his series, and gives you an initial run down of the bass and proper hand positioning.
Thumb and Lift Exercise
In this lesson, Joe shows us a basic thumb and lift exercise.
Four Chord Octave Slap
Now take that octave shape and move it through a chord progression!
Syncopated Octave Slap
In this lesson, Joe takes the octaves we've been working on, and puts certain parts of them on the off beats, also known as syncopation.
Muting Notes
In this lesson, Joe covers how to mute notes in the slap bass technique.
Lift-Offs and Hammer-Ons
Adding to the slap technique, Joe shows us how to add hammer-ons and lift-offs to our arsenal.
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