(bass slapping)
- (singing) I'm a rebel won't you put it to this metal baby.
It ain't no other who could break it on this level baby.
I go to war every day with the devil baby.
Cause I'm a rebel baby, I'm a rebel baby.
Yo I'm a rebel won't you put it to this metal baby.
There ain't no other who can break it on this level baby.
I go to war everyday with the devil baby.
Cause I'm a rebel baby, I'm a rebel baby. Come on!
(speaking) Yo my name is Divinity Roxx, and this is
Fender's technique of the week.
Let's just start with the technique,
uh I wrote rebel some years ago
when I was touring with Victor Wooten,
and Victor does this really cool
thumb hammer plunked pluck technique.
I'm sure some of you have seen him do it in some
of his amazing videos, and his amazing live performances.
I was so blessed to be able to go out and experience some
of that with him um and I love him so much anyway.
So, uh he uh
he does this technique where he
hammers, thumbs, pluck,
but he's doing it with notes.
So he's hammering on a note, he thumps it,
plucks it, hammers another note, thumps and plucks it.
So what I'm doing with rebel
is a variation of that technique.
Where, I'm in the key of D minor, right?
And I'm playing on my, on my G string,
starting on the note D, and I'm going up a minor third.
To this F right? Um and then I come down on
um, on B flat, right?
And then I play A, so I'm only playing 4 notes.
What makes this really cool are the
rhythmic varieties happening in between.
So, I'm coming down with my index finger uh to hammer
on that D now, that is something that I practiced so
long to be able to get a clean, clear sound,
and one of the ways that I would practice that was
hammering only hammering, not involving
my right hand at all. Just my left hand,
hammering on the notes of the bass.
I'm able to hammer with each one of my fingers.
It's really hard with the pinky.
So I don't really hammer with the pinky.
But I practice using all fingers because I want all
of my fingers to be just as strong as each other.
One of the things that I always do when I'm practicing is
I run the exercise or whatever I'm doing up and down,
every single fret, usually up to the 12th fret,
I'll be honest, up to the 12th fret on the bass.
(bass slapping)
Right? So, I'm hammering with this finger
and the pinky actually, on F.
My middle finger is hammering on that B flat,
and my index finger is, which is the strongest finger
to hammer, is hammering back on the A. Right?
So we haven't even involved the right hand.
So let's try that. If you're, if you're trying
along uh we'll hammer on the D, F, B flat, A.
(beatboxing)
Right, got that?
Now we're going to add the right hand,
which is doing all the work.
The right hand is basically hammer or uh thumping.
This is a thumb, not a hammer, this is the thumb.
It's thumping and plucking.
(beatboxing)
Ay can you do that?
And I'm only hitting, I'm I'm thumping
on the D string, and plucking on the G string.
Okay, let's try that.
(bass slapping)
Now I'm doing it all in the groove too.
Right? So that's part of the technique
I'm doing with my right hand.
Now, one of the other things that I always wanted to do that
Victor does, he does this uh down, up, pluck
down, up, down up, uh eh
you kind of, it's not really a pluck,
you're doing like a thump, right?
So you're going down on the G string up on the G string.
And you're getting a little, a little syncopated.
Muted note as you're doing it.
Right? So you,
that's funky right?
So, you're doing that.
You got that right?
Then on the turnaround I'm doing something
where I'm adding a another hammer.
Right, and I've introduced a new note.
Right? So now I'm playing that E,
with my ring finger on my left hand
playing that E and then I'm going down, coming up,
and not only am I just going down to coming up
I'm also adding these two fingers right behind it
because they're right there, why not right?
Down, up, up, up, down, up, up, up
down with the thumb, up with thumb, we go
up with the index finger, up with
your middle finger, down up.
(bass slapping)
That's something I used to practice all the time.
You can practice that anytime, anywhere
you don't even have to have a bass with you.
I'm practicing that on the edges of tables.
I'm practicing it, I used to sit
wherever I was sitting on a plane on the arm
rest of a chair down, up, up, up,
What's really cool about it is
that when you add that, that hammer
And I used to practice this too
going up and down the fret board.
(bass slapping)
Don't practice it that fast.
I'm just doing that for the sake of the video.
So we're not just watching me go up, down, up, up, up.
Right. So now we put it all together.
(bass slapping)
Ah now every other time, I'm doing this other rhythm.
So that technique is just
(bass slapping)
So let's review it one more time.
Hammer. Thumb. Pluck.
(bass slapping and beatboxing)
Yeah. Yeah.
If you could talk in between,
you might be able to get the rhyme on it.
Okay. Let's add the triplet or quadruplet.
It's really a quadruplet.
(bass slapping)
And when I add the hammer on, it's like a quintuplet.
I hope that makes sense.
This is Fender's technique of the week with Divinity Roxx.
(bass slapping)
(singing) Some people are born to lead,
others are born to follow. Some people are born to spit it,
others are born to swallow. Some people are born to
make the rules, others are born to break it.
Some people are born to dish it, others are
born to take it. I was born to make it better
but never will I never will I. Let em take me let em
make me cause I know it's a lie. I'm a rebel with them
but they say we monsters inside, if you look into my eyes
what do you see? The strongest weapon me in the boost
but in the true, the troubled youth
in need of a pair of shoes. All you want is loot,
pollute the food and execute anybody
if they cause a dispute, well screw you.
We'll take it to the streets cause we all bear arms
to get to the police cause sometimes they spray our home,
deep in communities where the sun ain't warm,
in the midst of the storm we resist when they pull them.
I'm a rebel won't you put it to this metal baby.
There ain't no other who can break it on this level baby.
I go to war every day with the devil baby.
Cause I'm a rebel baby, I'm a rebel baby.
Yo I'm a rebel won't you put it to this metal baby.
There ain't no other who can bring it on this level baby.
I go to war every day with the devil baby,
cause I'm a rebel I'm a rebel baby.
Rebel.
Roxx.
Rebel.
Roxx.
Rebel, rebel, I'm rebel Roxx Roxx
I'm rebel, Roxx Roxx,
I only rock only rock here pop pop.
(bass slapping)
Roxx.
Roxx. Roxx Roxx, Roxx.
(bass slapping)
(beat boxing)
Rebel won't you put it to this metal baby.
There ain't no other who can bring it on this level baby.
I go to war every day with the devil baby,
cause I'm a rebel baby, yo I'm a rebel baby.
Yo I'm a rebel won't you put it to this metal baby.
There ain't no other who can bring it on this level baby.
I go to war everyday with the devil baby,
cause I'm a rebel baby, yo I'm a rebel baby.
(beatboxing)
You can call me Miss Roxx, you can call me
Miss Roxx Roxx.
Yo my name is Divinity Roxx,
I want to give a special shout out to Fender,
and all the creative people over there for having me.
For the tech technique, the tech technique,
the tech technique of the week.
Divinity Roxx, Technique of the week.
Thanks. Peace.