Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Hal Leonard
• DVD Release Date: February 11, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00008G90O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,039 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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SLAP BASS - DVD Movie

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars get slap happy, July 29, 2004

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jlbjr (bay area, ca.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slap Bass: The Ultimate Guide (DVD)

Ed Friedlin is a monthly writer for bass player magazine. He covers in an excellent way how to slap, pop, mute, develop a groove, how to play with drum machines, ghost notes, and does some licks in larry graham, louis johnson, and marcus miller style and it is laid out in a very good manner. very good instructional video.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most concise, useful, and cheap intro to basic to high intermediate level slap bass, July 23, 2008

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Ajay Kalra "ajaybyrd" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slap Bass: The Ultimate Guide (DVD)

If all instruction material was as solid as this, I would have 50-100 books/DVDs in all (for bass, guitar, mandolin), not a 1000 or more.

There is enough easily usable information here to build your technique from scratch to as serviceable as any normal contemporary bass player's slap technique needs to be in typical playing situations. Only if you play in a solo or a bass-dominant musical context, would you need anything more.

Of course, once you fall in love with the possibilities of playing slap & pop (and tap etc.), you WILL need more. At that point you should get Stuart Clayton's ULTIMATE SLAP BASS, which actually is as complete a guide on any style on any instrument ever written (I otter know, coz I've invested more money in instruction material than any other human). Still, Clayton's book might be overwhelming because of its thoroughness; Ed's DVD has the essentials and intermediate stuff, but there's a load of them in here and the booklet is generous by DVD standards.

The only 3rd slap instruction you will perhaps need is the Hal Leonard book FUNK BASS by Chris Kringel as that gives you some real famous songs to learn. Of course, you can later progress to Victor Wooten's and Primus's transcriptions. In any case, for less than 20 buckaroos, this DVD provides the maximum wham for the whampum!

Not considered: Double thumbing, chord playing, and strumming. Of course, no tapping either; although in performance at a high level, tapping is often interspersed into slap technique.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Introduction for Slap Bass, August 31, 2006

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Bass Brother "Bass Brother" (Ewa Beach, HI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slap Bass: The Ultimate Guide (DVD)

This DVD cleared up alot of problems I was having trying to learn this style. After viewing this DVD many times, I feel I have a solid foundation in which to build on. I am by no means a super slap funk player, but I do have mucho more confidence going into grooves that require this style as a result of studying this DVD. I highly recommend it.