hey guys Joe Fick here you're about to watch a clip for my course Slap That Bass! here
on Discover Double Bass i hope you enjoy it all right so now that we've looked at the uh
single slap line in a two beat feel um let's look at it in a four four kind of shuffle feel
for this next example we're going to be in the key of g and we're basically going to channel
Willie Dixon in this okay Willie Dixon the great Chicago blues singer songwriter
and in my world really known as one of the greatest slap bass players ever Willie had a knack
for knowing what to play and where to play it and what not to play and when not to play it and
that's really what i love about his playing he also has some ornamental devices about his playing that
are really great that we're going to talk about later on in this course uh one of them being the
quadruplet or the Willie Dixon quadruplet as it's called so um but anyway in this uh in this little
uh song we're going to do is just a slow walking blues kind of a Chicago style blues we're going to
be in the key of g and we're going to stick pretty close to what we call like a boogie bass line
which is kind of your 1 3 5 6 flat 7 back down again to g okay so basically we have g we have b
we have d e and f and we're going to do that in all keys okay so we'll go over to c same thing
okay back to g once again one three five six flat seven
and then of course your five which we might abbreviate or i guess we could probably do
okay so basically we're just going to keep loose we're this is going to be a
slower blues we're going to think Willie Dixon we're going to think Muddy Waters
and all the while we're just going to be staying nice and loose and remember that
we're not coming back to hit the board okay that'll come later so it's just going to be
okay now the first time around i'm going to keep it pretty safe the second time around i'm going
to throw in a few little uh ornamental things that still fall under the single slap label
but this is something kind of Willie Dixon-ish that he would definitely do
and i'm just going to throw it in just so you can kind of see kind of how cool the single slap can
actually be all right so here we go we're going to bring in the band for this one once again
and this is just a slow walking blues in the key of g a one two three four