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Make Your Funk Bass Lines Greasy with Slides and Hammer-Ons
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Make Your Funk Bass Lines Greasy with Slides and Hammer-Ons

Improve your funk bass phrasing with fretting hand techniques including hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides to bring out feel, articulation, and dynamics.

Articulations and Expression: A Bass Video Lesson
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Articulations and Expression: A Bass Video Lesson

Q: I’m at a point where I’m trying to finally get into soloing, and playing bass as a vocal, expressive instrument. But I’m running into a wall. Any chance you’d be down to do a quick video on articulations? As in, the slick slides you use, the fantastic trills, expressions and so on. And blue notes! (I think they’re blue...