A great introduction to the exciting sounds of slap bass.  Covers slapping, popping, left hand hammers, slides, bends, ghost notes and double stops, as well as showing you which scales, arpeggios and fingerings to use to get the best sounds

Introduction

• Approach to Practice
• Bass Guitars, Amplifiers
• Strings
• Using the CD
• Tuning your Bass
• How to Read Music, Tablature
• The 4/4 Time Signature
• Playing Position

LESSON 1

• Thumb Slapping Technique
• Quarter Note Rhythms
• The Quarter Note Rest
• Left Hand Damping
• Using the Left Hand
• Chord Symbols
• The Half Note, The Half Rest
• The Whole Note, The Whole Rest
• Left Hand Fingering

LESSON 2

• Scales
• The Blues Scale
• Moveable Fingering Patterns
• Riffs
• The Dotted Half Note
• Learning the Notes
• Notes on the Bass Fretboard
• The Chromatic Scale

LESSON 3

• The Eighth Note
• Extending Scale Patterns
• The Dotted Quarter Note
• Syncopation

LESSON 4

• Popping Technique
• The Eighth Rest
• The Tie

LESSON 5

• Articulation
• Staccato
• Ghost Notes

LESSON 6

• Sixteen Note Rhythms
• Common Sixteen Note Figures
• Rhythm Studies
• Analyzing Sixteen Note Rhythms

LESSON 7

• Left Hand Techniques
• The Hammer-on
• The Pull-off
• The Slide
• Grace Notes
• The Trill

LESSON 8

• The Triplet
• Swing Rhythms
• The Sixteenth Note Triplet
• Swinging Sixteenth Notes

LESSON 9

• Understanding Chords
• Arpeggios
• Inversions
• Upside  Down Arpeggios
• Minor Chords and Arpeggios
• Seventh Chords
• Understanding the Fretboard
• Five Patterns For Arpeggios
• Applying Scale and Chord Formulas

LESSON 10

• Working With a Drummer
• Using a Drum Machine
• Finishing Touches
• The Bend
• Vibrato
• Double Stops
• The Crosshammer
• Left Hand Slap