10 Songs That Taught Me SLAP (Easy to Effin’ Hard)

👉 My full beginner bass course: Learning slap bass is a long lonely road… here’s 10 songs that taught me how to slap, and how you can level up YOUR slap bass game. When I started playing bass at age 13, nothing seemed cooler than slap bass. But frankly I sucked at it… for kind of a long time. That’s why all these slap bass lines were so crucial to get my technique to the next level. Which slap lines, you ask? Well you’ll have to watch the video, you saucy reader of descriptions. You’ll learn things like: - The easy formula Stuart Zender (and everyone else) uses for funky slap - That yes, Flea bass lines will appear in almost every slap bass lesson ever - A trick Les Claypool of @officialprimus uses to sound more melodic - Who the grandfather of slap bass is - How impossible it is to slap the bass too hard (thanks Louis Johnson) - Nate Phillips sexy thumb-fingers hybrid technique - @MarcusMiller1 slaps amazingly and once wore parachute pants - Stupid-sounding-but-fantastic advice from Mark King about slapping fast - @squarepushermusic is not a human and he slaps too fast - How @victorwooten re-revolutionized slap bass SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: Check out the original 10 Songs That Taught Me Bass: Need more slap? I got you covered - Help me glue my thumb back together by subscribing to BassBuzz - #SlapBass #BassBuzz