Slap is one technique that soon or later a bassist is going to try. So when I wanted to start I thought: Let’s buy the most acclaimed book on this subject, Slap It! And really it deserves all the buzz. The bass lines are good and challenging.
Oppenheim starts with open string, hammer-on and lift-off, muting notes and octave exercise. After that you will get about 110 bass lines, of which 80 will be recorded on the accompanying CD featuring Michael Clarke on drums and
Tony Oppenheim on bass.
Lines come in both notation and tablature and this will help you going through them faster as tablature allow the author to more accurately convey how each example is to be played. This doesn’t mean that you can go through all the exercise at first sight, even the first lines are challenging and you should study them carefully.
There is not a lot of theory here, if you don’t know nothing about thirds, fifths and so on, you should add some bass theory book.
Title: Slap It: Funk Studies for the Electric Bass
Author: Tony Oppenheim
Publisher: Theodore Presser
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1598060066
ISBN-13: 978-1598060065
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