A slap bass tune inspired by Flea - the bass guitar player from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. To achieve this fast and percussive sound to it you will be mostly using techniques like hammer-ons and left hand slapping.

Double stops will prove to be a very useful tool in your slap bass vocabulary and they can add a lot of diversity to your own bass lines.

We are going to explore some funky slap bass techniques. This time we are going to focus on playing "Hammer-ons"

Series of thumping exercises that will help you develop your slap bass technique.

Second part of series of thumping exercises that will help you develop your slap bass technique.

Bring your slapping technique to a new level! Let's slap 16th notes patterns utilizing hammer-ons as well as string skipping exercises. Slap with precision and stamina.

Finally - a slapping lesson. This is the first of many lessons in which I will show you how to master slapping. In this lesson I will use octaves to show you how to make easy, but interesting sounding bass lines.

Slap style is what everyone wants to do when they start playing bass. Nowadays these bass players are famous for using that technique: Les Claypool, Bootsy Collins, Louis Johnson, Mark King, Flea, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke etc.

In this lesson I play the techniques that I consider essential if you want to play the slap guitar style.