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Hello my fellow bass players!

Here's an exercise that will give a huge boost to your slap octaves! Practise this exercise a few times per week and your slap technique will feel a lot more natural and easy.

As always, make sure to keep your right hand thumb pointed slightly upwards or parallel to the string, and be sure to have most of the slap motion come from your wrist instead of your arm.

Let me know if you have any questions at all! Thanks for practising with me and I'll see you in the next lesson!

Charles

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Матвій Рагулін

Hi Charles, tell me please is it okay to slap through the string instead of bouncing? I saw many times how great bassist did it in this way. What do you think?

Marc Eber

I think they produce diferent sounds. But I hear you. If slapping through is ultimately most versitile, why not make that the primary tecnique from the start? I don't know either. I'm only on lesson 2!