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Ultimate Slap Bass is a good book for bass players who want to learn how to play slap bass. The book is just over 200 pages long and comes with two CDs which feature recordings of a lot of the lines and grooves listed in the book.
Stuart Clayton is a British author - and has written over 10 bass books so far, most of which are published by his Bassline Publications company.
One of the features of the book I really like is that as Stuart takes you through the basics to more advanced topics he also lists tunes you can find in iTunes that demonstrate each step of the process. The book is split into three sections. The first section is aimed at beginners and features slapping basics, adding the pop, using hammer-ons and trills and pull offs, adding ghost notes and a quick look at some scales that are regularly used by bassists who play slap.
The second section is for intermediate bass players. Topics include left hand slaps and 16th note lines, introducing 10ths, machine gun triplets, double stops and double pops and some strumming. Again there are suggested tracks to listen to that demonstrate these techniques.
The third section covers advanced topics - and includes slapping and the shuffle, open string hammer ons, and then some sections on the technique everyone wants to learn that was popularized by Victor Wooten, the double thumb technique. There's a final couple of chapters on combining all the techniques too into bass lines - there are some very cool examples in this section.
The book is rounded off with some short interviews with bass players famous for slapping - and some you may not have heard so much about. And there's an extensive slap bass discography too.
A final plus for the book is that it is spiral bound, so it sits nicely on your music stand as you work through the book and you don't have to damage the spine of the book to get it to lay semi flat to actually work from it. Why more music publishers don't do this is beyond me.
Anyway to conclude, this is a must have book if you want to work on learning the slap style of bass. Combine this with Alexis Skalerevski's DVD and Slap It by Tony Oppenheim and you'll have a feast of stuff to work on.
If you want more bass related info, head over to my how to play bass website where you'll find video lessons, articles, reviews and much more. There's also a monthly ezine you can sign up for - in return for signing up you'll get a PDF file with 5 cool bass lines in - and each month's ezine features a bass line in music notation and bass tab. http://www.how-to-play-bass.com/
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