Imslp stands for the international music score library project 2014 holiday gift guide. It still includes the same classic 151 slap bass exercises, but now all examples are provided in both standard and tab notation. Congrats on writing a book thats stood the test of time. Funk studies for the electric bass was the first book to be published on slap bass technique.
I still break it out every once in a while the book, not the lps the dog ate those long ago when i want to get some sightreading practice and get slap happy. Master musician and perhaps one of the greatest bass players in the history of the world, marcus miller absolutely slaps. I got my copy back in the 80s when they still came with the floppy vinal lps that you had to tear out. Slap bass continues to be used in the 21st century, as it is widely used by modern rockabilly and psychobilly band bassists, including kim nekroman nekromantix, geoff kresge tiger army, scott owen the living end and jimbo wallace the reverend horton heat. This comprehensive book covers every aspect of the slap technique from the absolute basics through to advanced techniques such as double thumbing, open string hammerons and how to combine slapping with other techniques. Clinica bass alejandro giusti music expert youtube. His slap skills are quite impressive, as youll see. If all instruction material was as solid as this, i would have 50100 books dvds in all for bass, guitar, mandolin, not a or more. The online course is a lifetime subscription that accesses more exercises and lessons. Hi everybody, what is a good book dvd to learn slap bass from. First published in 1981 and written by tony oppenheim, slap it. Discussion in technique bg started by irishsausage, may 3, 2012. Alejandro masafret sent me this video of him performing what he calls fragments of several improvisations on bass. Anthony jackson june 23, 1952 is an american bassist known for his many session recordings, live performances, and his role in developing a new design of the sixstring bass guitar, which he called a contrabass guitar.
Kresges rapid slapping ability is all the more remarkable given that for much of his career he was an electric. But then after he lays down some loops, he switches to soloing over top of it all in an equally impressive way. He has been described as one of the masters of the instrument. Discover everything scribd has to offer, including books and audiobooks from major publishers.
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