hi it's tom today i'm going to show you a
slapped triplet fill in the style of davie504
it is the slap triplet feel that he showed rob scallon on rob scallon's
channel a few months ago debut 504 is an extraordinarily good
base guitarist and has managed to create a massive channel and has brought
a lot of interest to the bass guitar in the video and rob's channel
davie 504 is showing this exact marcus miller type fill but i have
tabbed it out and i'm also going to play through it at a few different speeds
as it's a type of feel that i wasn't very good at i'll show you a few
tips that i found helpful in learning it and i'll break down how you could use it
in your own baselines and hopefully that all helps
you out so if you do find this video helpful and
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firstly with slap it's important to have the base set up for slap and there's
three big things here strings first of all you want to have
bright strings and i have stainless steel strings
on this fender jazz bass action i've had this bass setup with low action
with around two millimeters at the 12th fret and eq i have the bass pick up
and the overall tone knob turned pretty much
almost fully up you can see that here and i have cut the mids on my
software so let's walk through the fill well
if the fill is slap hammer pop so this dv504 phil is in the key of
e minor so i find the e on the a string which is here on the
seventh fret and then from the d string i go seven nine
pop five seven pop five seven on the a string pop and then
five seven on the e string and pop so
i go seven nine
five seven five seven on the a string and then five straight
seven on the e string and then i pop that
and then that's that's pretty much the whole lick the thing you need to make
sure you get as well is get that triplet rhythm
so triple triple triple triple
so there's a few things you might struggle with or things that i struggled
with at the full tempo i found it hard to get
that pop sound rather than just kind of like
a sloppy kind of dead note so really want to work on get hooking
that finger under note and getting the same level of force
every time but you don't want to pull up too much because then you won't
be able to get back in time at fast speeds
and you also might find like i did that at full speed
being able to get a good slap sound so what i found
is that i worked on
i worked on just doing that without the pop
on on all the strings
and then i add the pop afterwards
yeah so let's just say you have a bass line in the key of f sharp minor like
this one
to transpose a fill you then need to find the f sharp
on the a string which is here on the ninth fret so in the key of
f sharp you would then slap 9 to 11
7 to 9
seven to nine on the a string and then seven to nine
on the e string so that same bass line with that fill now sounds like
this
so obviously you don't use this type of fill too much but here and there
i feel like this sounds amazing so i hope you found this useful and do
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