Victor Wooten percussive slap

[ML94]

Hi guys

Another question on a slap master

I mostly focusing on his more Slower grooves, e.g. The little excerpts from the DVD

My question is how does he play the melody but also keep that nice percussive Rhytmn going on at the same time. I've tried that with muted slap and pop but I just can't get it to sound anywhere slick as he does it. I've seen sometimes he would do like a down or upstroke but you would pick that up just because of the attack. But I'm more focused on those little percussive techniques he does when playing a slow melody/groove.

Any ideas ?

[Doddy]

I'm guessing that it's all right hand just filling in the gaps on muted notes.
Any specific examples?

[ML94]

Let me find one

[ML94]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iwwZuakWECM

Something like this before he goes crazy on flash slap !

[chrismuzz]

He uses up to three fingers when popping notes as opposed to most of us who would just use the index finger, I'm assuming that's what you're hearing

[Doddy]

Basically,he's just plucking muted stings and adding some slaps with the right hand palm in between the actual
notes. He's not slapping in that clip (The tune is 'Sex in a Pan',by the way).

[ML94]

I didn't really know what to call it so I just used slap. Bt yeah, it fills up the texture when your playing a groove like that. Any ideas on how to accomplish or start doing that sort of stuff ?

[Doddy]

He's playing with thumb and 2 or 3 fingers there,so first of all you could try that technique. If you take a line that is
similar to that groove,you could play the first few four notes as normal and then try playing playing the next notes
on muted strings going from thumb,index finger,middle finger in steady quavers before playing the fretted notes
again. Just take it steady to begin with. (That tune is in the Wooten transcription book if you're interested).

[ML94]

It sounds so slick ! I've got it in the funk transcriptions but always ignored it , silly me !

[BottomE]

Yeah its interesting stuff. I spent a long time, for no reason, trying to get that type of style going. I had a little thing going, tried it in the band and it was completely lost in a live context

[ScreencastTutor]

Has anyone seen Alex Sklarevsk's slap bass video? It shows some techniques which are pretty nice. Some of which Victor uses in his playing.

Not really related but damn, I love Victor's playing in:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ub7djHS_A&feature=related[/media]

Edited October 21, 2012 by ScreencastTutor

[chardbass]

Cool! Jazz Bassoon.
The bassoon was my way into reading bass clef when I was a nipper (and the reason I was allowed to stop playing the bloody recorder!!)

[ScreencastTutor]

[quote name='chardbass' timestamp='1350949028' post='1845582']
Cool! Jazz Bassoon.
The bassoon was my way into reading bass clef when I was a nipper (and the reason I was allowed to stop playing the bloody recorder!!)
[/quote]

Haha its pretty incredble.

The video I was reffering to is actually on youtube. If you skip to the 1hr+ mark there are some lesser used techniques shown (not what Victor does though I don't think).

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyMfwIWSrsE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyMfwIWSrsE[/url]