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My fellow bassists!

Now that you've been introduced to all of the basic building blocks of slap bass, it's time to start perfecting your technique.

One of the ways to perfect your technique is by practising speed exercises. These are exercises that are designed to be pushed up to a high tempo.

So that means the benefits of practising playing fast aren't limited to just playing fast (although that's a fun and useful skill, if you use it in the correct places). It also forces you to perfect your technique because it's pretty much impossible to play fast if you have inefficient technique.

Watch this video and then try the companion practice videos (83.1, 83.2 and 83.3) where you can play along with me at a variety of tempos.

And as always, let me know if you have any questions or feedback and I'll make sure to respond ASAP!

Have a great weekend, thanks for coming here and practising with me and I'll see you in the next lesson!

Charles

Comments

Jason Gancedo

Did you ever have a problem with your ring knocking against the fretboard? I find myself having to take off my wedding ring to avoid it.

Witold Wegner

Hi, there seems to be a "typo" - 6th bar, 3rd note is notated a C but you play a D (which makes more sense, since it should be the same like bar 2 only a fourth up)