Double Thumbing - nice starter riff?

[ScreencastTutor]

I've been trying to learn and improve my double thumbing. Wondering if anyone has some nice riffs to learn.

Also at the moment I double thumb over the fretboard (at the very bottom) in the same place and where I slap regularly. Is this alright or is it better to move a bit further down where the space under the strings is greater?

[leftyhook]

surely there are vids on youtube for this kind of tomfoolery?

[ScreencastTutor]

Yeah, was just wondering if anyone had any they could recommend. I started off with this one but I haven't really come across others by him which aren't just constant double thumbing:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmxY2io7YwQ&feature=g-u-u&context=G2279b92FUAAAAAAANAA[/media]

Other than that I've just been trying to incorporate it into some improv to a drumbeat.

Edited February 13, 2012 by ScreencastTutor

[rapscallion]

MarloweDK has some lessons on his channel I think, with a really slow breakdown. His stuff in general is great

[wal4string]

For me double thumbing is just too awkward. The Mark King left hand slap is a far better in my opinion, a bit of a brain bender to begin with but works fine in the end. Check out Stuart Claytons Transcriptions of the Level 42 songs to see how he does it. Love Games is a good starter.

Edited February 14, 2012 by wal4string

[ScreencastTutor]

The Mark King left hand slap is nice but surely its only useful for making a muted noise? Especially fast parts - like the small section in Pow - double thumbing seems useful:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adBCZSS5DZE[/media]

Love Games was probably the first song I ever tried to learn on bass

Edited February 14, 2012 by ScreencastTutor

[wal4string]

It depends how hard you do the slap,

[velvetkevorkian]

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For me double thumbing is just too awkward. The Mark King left hand slap is a far better in my opinion, a bit of a brain bender to begin with but works fine in the end. Check out Stuart Claytons Transcriptions of the Level 42 songs to see how he does it. Love Games is a good starter.
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I'm the opposite- I find double thumbing much easier than regular slap, although admittedly I never play other people's slap lines.
Just try and adapt some lines that you play normally to work with the double thumb. I do it at the same place you would slap normally.