Odd Right Hand Question

[Hector]

Hi guys,

Been looking at guys like Wooten and Marcus a lot recently, with the result that I've become intrigued by one tiny aspect of their playing. It's the way they mix in the percussive extra little notes, which are what really make their lines groove so hard. It's really obvious in [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWNiFw_W3mA"]this[/url] video, at about 12 seconds, where Vic does a tasty little percussive triplet thing; but camera angle doesn't show his hands! Does anyone have any idea about this sort of thing, or how he seems to be doing it?

Cheers,

Hector

Edited October 15, 2009 by Hector

[Paul_C]

[quote name='Hector' post='626790' date='Oct 15 2009, 11:31 AM']Hi guys,

Been looking at guys like Wooten and Marcus a lot recently, with the result that I've become intrigued by one tiny aspect of their playing. It's the way they mix in the percussive extra little notes, which are what really make their lines groove so hard. It's really obvious in [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWNiFw_W3mA"]this[/url] video, at about 12 seconds, where Vic does a tasty little percussive triplet thing; but camera angle doesn't show his hands! Does anyone have any idea about this sort of thing, or how he seems to be doing it?

Cheers,

Hector[/quote]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq7IxvfOxTQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq7IxvfOxTQ[/url]

[The Funk]

There are different ways.

Two to get you started.

1. Ghost notes - where you dampen/mute with the fretting hand, by not actually fretting a note, but play normally with your plucking hand.
2. Left hand hammer-on slaps - where you hammer on a note in amongst other slapped/ghost notes.

[Doddy]

What Victor's doing in that clip is muting the strings with the left hand and playing a fast triplet-I think-
by plucking with the index and middle fingers followed by a slap.
Guy's like Victor and Marcus tend to use the right hand for muted patterns more than say,
Mark King who uses a lot of left hand slaps in conjunction with the right in a more drum-istic way.

Marcus does it really clearly here at around 30 seconds

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke4Gfi6hS6w"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke4Gfi6hS6w[/url]

[ianrunci]

Bernard Edwards was a master of the ghost note. Tunes like thinking of you by sister sledge, such simple lines made to sound so complicated. When you break it down without the ghost notes its just simple octaves. I love his playing so much, his lines seem to bubble and pop