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My fellow bassists!

Hope you're having a great weekend. Due to popular demand, here's a practice video for my version of Eye Of The Tiger!

I went for a slightly different direction for the music video. I get a lot of comments that either say I inspired you or I made you want to throw your bass in the trash 🤣

I wanted to show you that I've experienced the same conflicting feelings too when I watched people like Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller etc... But eventually when I realized how much I can improve through practising the right things, those same videos started to inspire me much more!

I hope this site and this video help you to be inspired by the endless of possibilities of playing BASS!

Thanks so much for your support, have a great day and I'll see you in the next video!

Charles

Comments

Andrew Trosien

Charles, a question about those strummed chords at the beginning - it looks like you're hitting the D and G string with your middle finger, but the A string (root) with your thumb. Am I seeing that correctly, or is it all strummed with the middle finger?

Andrew Trosien

Sorry, one more question - What is the "L" marking for the plucking hand?

Charles Berthoud

Slap and strumming is always an optical illusion haha. When I'm strumming there's never any thumb involved unless I'm doing the fast flamenco-ish triplets, which I'm not here!

Charles Berthoud

That's just a left-hand slap - so hit the strings with all the fingers on your left hand and keep them resting on the strings so that the strings stay muted, resulting in a percussive ghost note

The Olympics

Could you be so kind as to point me to a lesson on here about the tapping the slap is easy enough but the tapping feels way different to anything I've practiced?

Charles Berthoud

If you click on "collections" at the top of this page and then click on the beginner tapping course there's some good lessons there! The tapping section in this song is especially complex

SGworld

I have a question! I think the full version of Tab sheet music is missing one main phrase starting with bar 10, how do I play this part?