Originally published June 7, 2013, lightly edited for clarity.
For me, slap bass playing is one of the most physically demanding and complex ways to play the bass because there are so many different combinations of ways that the hands work in contacting the strings. This includes both the right and left hands. Because of the many different ways of getting the notes out with this technique, I think it takes the longest to get internalized. With my own slap playing, I want to get my right and left hand to just know what to do as musical ideas come to me. I go deeper into setting up that right hand around the double-thumb angle in slap bass technique fundamentals. The following video gets into the 1st basic steps of how I start this process. Slap is one of the styles I teach. If you want guided feedback on your slap technique, online bass lessons via Zoom are available.
