Percussive Acoustic Bass

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Percussive Acoustic Bass is a technique enabling you to play both rhythmic percussive parts and melody or bass parts simultaneously. The hollow body of an acoustic bass instrument gives you the ability to create percussive sounds otherwise not possible with an electric bass.

This course will be beneficial for musicians of any level, starting from complete beginners to most advanced players. You'll need an acoustic bass to fully benefit from the course, but many techniques and tips can be applied on electric bass as well. Also, it's an incredible way of exploring your bass at home, for solo playing, covering songs arrangements, and just for the joy of playing! It will open a whole new dimension in your composing and change your understanding of the rhythm section.

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bass guitar
acoustic bass

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Multilevel

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Bass Players

Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1 Introdution 02:26 min
  
  DescriptionWhat is Percussive Bass?Percussive bass is a technique where you play rhythm and the melody (or bass part) simultaneously. Because of the hollow body of the acoustic instrument, when we hit it we can get sound similar to percussion. Acoustic BassAs long as your bass is acoustic, any model will work. The bigger the body, the lower and louder percussive sound you can get, which is especially important for kick drum sounds. Chords on BassYou will be using a lot of chords and intervals, so it's good to know and be able to play them. Left Hand TappingYou have to think about your hands as a two different instruments, or band members: The right hand is the drummer and the left hand is a bass player. That's why you have to learn to play any bass riff only with your left hand. String Action Try to lower your string action so you'll be able to tap with your left & right hands more easily. If you don't have an acoustic bass yet, don't worry - you can start practicing most of the exercises with an electric bass. Overall, Percussive fingerstyle is an advanced style of playing, which consists of many different techniques: Slap, tapping, harmonics, chords & intervals, hammer-ons and pull-offs, as well as percussion. In this course, I'll show you all of these techniques only in relation to percussive fingerstyle. For deeper understanding, and for achieving better results, I would highly suggest you to learn each of these elements separately.
Chapter 2: Muted Strings Hits
- 1 Overview - Muted Strngs His 00:16 min
  
  DescriptionMuted string hits are the most widely used percussive technique. There are 2 main concepts: either we play strings strokes in between the notes, or we hit them together with a note.
- 2 Performance - Muted String Hits 00:17 min
- 3 Breakdown - Muted Strings Hits 01:40 min
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  DescriptionThis is a bass part based on 5th intervals. We're adding a string stroke after each note. Stroke the muted strings to make a percussion sound. In the notation, you'll see an "x" letter above the string which has to be stroked.
- 4 Overview- Note & String Stroke 00:06 min
  
  DescriptionNow we're going to play the note and muted stroke at the same time.
- 5 Performance - Note & String Stroke 00:10 min
- 6 Breakdown - Note & String Stroke 02:15 min
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  DescriptionThe bass part is played only on the 3rd and 5th frets. We need to add string hits on every second 8th note. We can start by taking one note, and play one clean note and every second note together with a stroke. It's important to keep the balance between note and stroke and avoid delays, they should sound together at the same time.
- 7 Overview - Different String Strokes 00:06 min
  
  DescriptionNow we'll mix both stroke approaches together in one riff.
- 8 Performance - Different String Strokes 00:10 min
- 9 Breakdown - Different String Strokes 02:10 min
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  DescriptionAt first, try to play the part without strokes. Then, we're adding hits in between the notes. There are only 2 of them. After that, try to add 2 more hits together with notes. Don't rush, avoid delays, and keep right balance.
Chapter 3: Percussion
- 1 Introduction - Percussion 00:34 min
  
  DescriptionBy hitting the body of an acoustic bass, we can imitate a drum kit. We only need a kick, snare, and hi hat. These three elements can provide most of the grooves of a drum kit, or at least the basics of any rhythm. As extra hits, we sometimes use toms. There are a lot of different ways to achieve these sounds, and we don't have any strict rules. Also, each bass guitar is a bit different, so try to find your own places of hitting the body and imitating percussion sounds. Don't be afraid to experiment!
- 2 Explanation - Percussive elements 02:29 min
  
  DescriptionKick – use the heel of your hand and hit with moderate force on the bodyof guitar. There are 2 main areas, first one just above the strings,and second below the strings. By hitting, you're imitating the sound ofthe kick drum. Try to get the lowest sound possible. Snare – there are a lot of options and places where you can play it. Usually youhit the body with your middle or index finger. The first option is justby hitting the strings, second is by hitting below the strings, and thethird combines these two techniques - string hit and under the stringhits. The fourth option is done by hitting under the body of your bass. Hi hat - the first option is to use your thumb and slap it on the muted Gstring. Second option is to strum with your middle finger playingupstrokes and down strokes on muted strings. Third option is to use yourleft hand (it's the same left hand. Tom Tom – any extra hits we do with fingers, right hand thumb, or left hand hits.
- 3 Percussive notation 00:28 min
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  DescriptionWe use separate lines for percussion notation, taken from drum notation. On the bottom line is the kick, just above the middle snare. Hi hats are above the top line marked with an "x", and toms or any other extra hits are displayed below the top line.
- 4 Overview - Kick & Snare 00:05 min
  
  DescriptionWe'll start with a simple drum beat. Only kick and under the body snare.
- 5 Performance - Kick & Snare 00:09 min
- 6 Breakdown - Kick & Snare 02:00 min
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  DescriptionWe're using the lower kick here. Keep your hand relaxed, don't strain it. You should have a feeling of a free falling hand. Don't add pressure, or put any force, let your arm fall. We're using the under the body snare. You can hit it with the middle finger, index, or both fingers. Now we're starting slowly to play the rhythm. kick – snare, and in the end we have 2 kicks and snares. Avoid any unwanted movement, the less you move, the faster and easier you'll be able to play. It's important to practice all rhythms with a metronome! Start with a slow tempo, and when you feel comfortable raise the tempo.
- 7 Overview - Kick Snare & Hi Hat 00:11 min
  
  DescriptionNow we'll play the same beat, but with one more element – hi hats. We'll play up & down strokes in between the kick and snare. Also, we'll use different kick and snare this time.
- 8 Performance - Kick Snare & Hi Hat 00:12 min
- 9 Breakdown - Kick Snare & Hi hat9 03:36 min
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  DescriptionIn this example, we're using all three main elements of a drum kit. We start with a kick, this time using the upper kick. The movement of our arm is a bit different. Imagine that you're accelerating on a motorbike! We don't have large movement amplitude, that's why we have to put a bit force into it. After the kick, we perform the down stroke hi hat, strumming all the strings with a nails of your fingers. Avoid unwanted movements. After the hi hat, we're playing snare. Middle finger, or index, if you want.After the hi hat, our fingers are raised up, and all we have to now is put them down to get the snare sound. On our way back, we're playing one more hi hat, this time it's an up stroke. After the snare, don't raise your fingers, your fingers are already in place, just slide them up.
- 10 Intorduction - Tom-Tom 00:07 min
  
  DescriptionHere's one more exercise to show you how to use tom-toms and how they sound. Also, we'll use another snare.
- 11 Performance - Tom-Tom 00:13 min
- 12 Breakdown - Tom-Tom 02:14 min
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  DescriptionHere we're using a rimshot snare! With a tip of your middle or index finger, hit the body of the guitar, right below the strings, and with your lower finger phalanges, you're touching muted strings. Practice this snare hit until you will get it right. It might take some time. Tom Tom – in this example, we're using our thumb, a standard slap movement. Also, we tap with our middle finger. Starting with the upper kick, then middle finger tap, then thumb tom, kick again and then rimshot snare!
Chapter 4: Percussive Slap
- 1 Introduction - Slap 01:04 min
  
  DescriptionSlap bass is a very popular style of playing bass, and there are a lot of great schools and lessons available where you can learn and master the technique. In short, thumb hits are called "slaps", index or middle finger plucks are called "pops". There are 2 main techniques - upper or lower slap, and it's usually dependent on how low your bass is positioned. I'll show you only how to use slap & pop in relation to percussive style bass. I highly suggest that you learn this technique additionally.
- 2 Explanation - Kick & Slap 00:38 min
  
  DescriptionA very common approach to playing is to perform kick and slap at the same time. When you're doing upper kick, try to slap a note with your thumb. It's similar to standard slap technique, except that usually to get a sound, we rotating our wrist. However, here we're moving our whole hand to add a kick sound. Avoid delays between slap and note and also keep good balance of these two elements.
- 3 Overview - Kick & Slap 00:05 min
  
  DescriptionNow we'll play small riff using a kick & slap approach.
- 4 Performance - Kick & Slap 00:09 min
- 5 Breakdown - Kick & Slap 02:21 min
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  DescriptionHere we're practicing kick & slap technique at the same time. Maybe at first it will be complicated to slap the A string. In order to perform clean slap on A, we have to mute the E string either with the tip of our middle or index finger, or by standard muting. At first learn to play clean slap without a kick. You can practice that with any one note. Then, add kick and after that try to play this riff.
- 6 Explanation - Percussive Pop 01:50 min
  
  DescriptionYou can play a standard "pop" in many situations. It's just plucking a string with your index finger. In percussive style bass, I came up with an idea to perform pop and snare at the same time. That's what usually happens when you play with a drummer: we tend to play slap together with kick and pop together with a snare. Basically, it's just like a string strum, we're just strumming the note on a single string with our finger nails. We have to mute all the rest strings. As with the standard slap, we will use the pop mainly on higher strings, G & D. Practice performing it by putting your thumb on the A string, at the same time touching E string, so it's muted as well. Now just try to play any note. If we want to add a snare sound to it, we have to hit muted strings with our hand heel at the same time. Try them separately at first. Then together. And also on the D string.
- 7 Overview - Pop & Snare 00:04 min
  
  DescriptionNow we'll play an exercise utilizing pop & snare.
- 8 Performane - Pop & Snare 00:08 min
- 9 Breakdown - Pop & Snare 01:36 min
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  DescriptionWe'll start from our left hand. Memorize the part so you don't have to think about it, and you can concentrate on your right hand movements. At first, try to play it with the percussive pop without the snare. When we move on to the G string, we have to mute D string with our left hand fingers. Now we add in the snare. Start slowly. Remember the movement. It may feel strange, but keep going, you'll get it. Keep in mind to balance the volume of the snare and pop.
- 10 Overview - Slap & Pop 00:07 min
  
  DescriptionIn this next example, we'll play using percussive slap & pop in one riff. We'll see how it works together.
- 11 Performance - Slap & Pop 00:11 min
- 12 Breakdown - Slap & Pop 02:40 min
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  DescriptionLet's start from the bass part. There is one hammer-on at the end. A hammer-on is a technique widely used on string instruments, basically you're taking a note normally and the second note you're hammering only with the left hand fingers. As a result, you get quite a smooth sound. This also allows you to play quite fast passages. The pull-off technique is totally opposite. In the drum part, we have just the kick & snare. Let's try to play the bass part and percussion together. Pay attention to the two A notes (5th fret on E string) - the first one you play slap together with a kick, and second without a kick
- 13 Explanation - Slap Hi Hat 00:31 min
  
  DescriptionSlap hi hats is one of the variations on how to imitate a hi hat sound. It's a standard slapping technique. All we have to do is mute all strings with our left hand, and start slapping the G string. This way we're getting a more narrow sound, like the drummer who would play on a fully closed Hi hat.
- 14 Overview - Slap Hi Hat 00:07 min
  
  DescriptionIn the next exercise, we'll play the same simple beat we already know, but this time we will use the slap hi hat sound.
- 15 Performance - Slap Hi Hat 00:10 min
- 16 Breakdown - Slap Hi Hat 02:03 min
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  DescriptionWe've played this beat already, so you should know it. This time it's just different hi hats. It's very important not to move your hand around, but keep it in position, and think about coordination. After the kick, our thumb is already in place, we just have to rotate it, and after that we have to raise our finger to get enough amplitude to play a snare, and on our way back we are playing hi hat. In the beginning your hand will be flying all over the place, a very common mistake. If you play like this, you won't be able to play fast and precise, you'll be wasting too much energy. Think about your right hand, start with a slow tempo, and gradually speed up!
- 17 Explanation - Left Hand Hi Hat 01:15 min
  
  DescriptionThis is the same muting we used in a standard slap technique, now you're just hitting all string with your left hand fingers. For those of you who are already familiar with slap, you should know that the left hand hits is an essential technique. If we hit the strings with all our fingers, it will sounds quite loud, and sometimes we need it. But more often, we need a bit softer & cleaner sound. That's why we'll play it only with three fingers. Keep your index finger on fret board muting all the strings, and with the other three fingers try to hit hard. Avoid any notes or harmonics, you should be able to get bright muted metallic sound. Start slowly, and practice this movement.
- 18 Overview - Left Hand Hi Hat 00:05 min
  
  DescriptionNow we'll practice left hand hi hats playing a short beat.
- 19 Overview- Left Hand Hi Hat 00:05 min
  
  DescriptionNow we'll practice left hand hi hats playing a short beat.
- 20 Performance - Left Hand Hi Hat 00:08 min
- 21 Breakdown - Left Hand Hi Hat 00:57 min
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  DescriptionWe start with a lower kick, then left hand hi hat. Keep in mind everything should be muted, without any sounds or noises.One kick - one hi hatTwo kicks - Two hi hats
Chapter 5: Chords & Intervals
- 1 Introduction - Chords & Intervals 00:42 min
  
  DescriptionAlthough chords and intervals are mainly associated with guitar, it's one of the techniques you need to understand and master if you want to succeed in percussive fingerstyle. By playing or holding a chord we can get a much more fuller sound. Let's say we're playing one note, or we're playing at least three! The sound is much fuller and for solo playing it's really essential. It's a lengthy topic, but I will briefly describe it to you and give you a small introduction. Make sure to explore and master chords & intervals additionally.
- 2 Explanation - Intervals 01:16 min
  
  DescriptionAn interval is the distance from one note until the other. If I take a one note and then a second, there will be the distance between them, the higher or the lower the second note, the bigger distance is between them. We can count distance by using major and minor scales. Just by going from start till the required fret. By playing intervals together, we can get much fuller sound, and create more interesting compositions.
- 3 Explanation - Chords 01:21 min
  
  DescriptionChords are made up of least 3 notes sounded together. The chords on bass are usually played without the 5th interval. When we play full chord in a low register, it sounds a bit dirty. If we take off the 5th interval, it sounds much better. Often chords are played with the right hand, and intervals only with the left hand as there are only 2 notes.
- 4 Overview - Friend Offline Intervals 00:10 min
  
  DescriptionIn the next exercise, we'll practice intervals together with a kick. This a verse from song called "Friend Offline" by my acoustic duo Karmafree
- 5 Performance - Friend Offline Intervals 00:16 min
- 6 Breakdown - Friend Offline 03:59 min
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  DescriptionLet's look at the intervals. The first one is a fifth, but in a different shape. In this case, it sounds brighter and cleaner. The second interval is major 7th. Then major 3rd. But the 3rd interval is on an octave higher. Then major 7th, 5th interval, and major 6th. Next, we're going to play kick at the same time. To perform a kick at the same time, pluck with your thumb and middle or index finger interval. The hardest part is making the interval soft and the kick punchy. Practice that. Learn to play soft notes.
- 7 Overview - Minimalism Chords 00:08 min
  
  DescriptionNow I'll show you how to use chords in a compositions. It's the piece from my solo album called Minimalism.
- 8 Performance - Minimalism Chords 00:18 min
- 9 Breakdown - Minimalism Chords 02:39 min
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  DescriptionLet's look at the chords. 1st one is Dmaj7. Then we move to F#min7, then we move on to B7, and A7. For the right hand, we're using standard guitar picking technique. Lower notes, usually on E and A strings we play with a thumb, and notes on a higher strings with middle and index fingers. If chords are something new for you, practice them for a while without the kick just to get used to them. Also, practice the plucking technique in your right hand. After you have that down, you can start to play kick. The same with intervals. Chords softly, kick punchy. But not too loud, don't over force it.
Chapter 6: Tapping
- 1 Explanation - Tapping 01:07 min
  
  DescriptionI would say that tapping is the most important topic on to your way to playing percussive acoustic bass. We're not talking about super fast solo tapping licks, it's mainly left hand tapping. Speaking about the right hand, it's a bit harder to tap notes on acoustic bass than on electric because of the higher action and string tension. But with time, you will get used to it. Right now you have to learn to play everything you did with both hands, only with one left hand. The best way to start is to play scales, or any riffs you already know with just your left hand. Pay attention to the muting. It's very important - because of the hits, bass is constantly shaking therefore making the open strings vibrate. Remember, the left hand is playing the bass part (or melody), and the right hand is playing rhythm. You have to think about them as a two different instruments.
- 2 Overview Left Hand Tapping Scales 00:08 min
  
  DescriptionWe'll start left hand taping with scales. I'll show you how to play the Cmaj and Dmin using only your left hand.
- 3 Performance - Left Hand Tapping Scales 00:24 min
- 4 Breakdown - Left Hand Tapping Scales 03:48 min
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  DescriptionFirst of all, if you're not familiar with the scales, you have to learn them. Next, we have to play them only with a left hand. Move your focus from notes on to the muting. The major scale starts with second finger, at the same time first finger muting the string.It's kind of hard to control at first, but try to learn to switch your focus from the notes to muting, and remember the fingering. The same with D minor.
- 5 Overview - Brainwashing 00:12 min
  
  DescriptionIn the next example, I'll show you how to play the riff from my song "Brainwashing". We'll be using left hand tapping and right hand percussion.
- 6 Performance Brainwashing 00:18 min
- 7 Breakdown - Brainwashing 03:20 min
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  DescriptionAs usual, we're starting from the bass part. This time try to play it with only your left hand. Learn to play it without any background noises, thinking about muting. There are a few hammer-ons and one pull-off. Learn to play the riff in moderate tempo. Next, we're adding kick and snare. Each notes is doubled with percussion, on beat notes are played with a kick, and off beat with snare. Start slowly, thinking about every movement.
- 8 Overview - Soul Ache 00:13 min
  
  DescriptionIn the next exercise, we'll be tapping with both hands. It's a classical way of tapping. We'll take a riff from Karmafree called "Soul Ache".
- 9 Performance - Soul Ache 00:28 min
- 10 Breakdown - Soul Ache 04:06 min
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  DescriptionThe left hand taps chords and we play a single voicing with our right hand. We'll be playing just a few extra notes with the right hand. Here it's important to understand that in percussive technique, we can't play long riffs with our right hand, as usually it has to hold the rhythm. We should concentrate more on adding just a few notes now and then with our right hand, just to add en extra voice. Let's have a look at the riff.
- 11 Overview - Minimalism Tapping 00:09 min
  
  DescriptionNow we're going to play the tune you already know, "Minimalism", but this time we'll add a few extra tapping notes, both with right and left hands.
- 12 Performance - Minimalism 00:16 min
- 13 Breakdown - Minimalism 03:59 min
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  DescriptionLet's take the first chord and tap the 19th fret on the D string with your small finger. We follow that sequence for the next few chords. Then, we go back on to the first chord, where things becomes a bit more complicated. We strum the cord with our fingernails 2 times, up & down, and right after we're doing a slide with the right hand from the 19th to 21st fret on the G string. For the second chord, we're doing three muted hi hats, down up down. Then with middle finger, we play the 14th fret on A, and then a small slide from the 16th to the 17th fret on G string. Move finger back, then pull off to the 14th fret. Then play the 13th fret on D and hammer-on to the 16th fret, then take the same 2 notes with standard technique, and take the last chord 12 on E and 13 on G.
Chapter 7: Harmonics
- 1 Introduction Harmonics 01:17 min
  
  DescriptionHarmonics are amplified overtone notes, they have very high pitch, and that's why they sounds amazing together with low bass register notes. Lightly touch the strings (don't press down) directly over the fret wire and pull the string. Keep in mind that you have to be very precise on fretboard and apply the correct amount of pressure with your right hand. You can also play two or more harmonics together creating intervals in chords. Experiment and try to find your own combinations.
- 2 Overview - Harmonics & Bass Part 00:09 min
  
  DescriptionIt's interesting to play harmonics together with a bass part, creating the illusion of two instruments. Also, because of the large difference in octaves, they sound quite good together. Let's start!
- 3 Performance - Harmonics & Bass Part 00:19 min
- 4 Breakdown - Harmonics & Bass Part 02:50 min
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  DescriptionHere it's important not to rush and play the piece softly. Hold the low note, and while it's sounding, play a harmonic so that both note and harmonic sound together. That will create the illusion of two instruments. Don't rush, and pay attention to your low notes, make sure they sounds all the time.
- 5 Tap Harmonics Explanation 01:18 min
  
  DescriptionUse your index or middle finger on your right hand to hit above the 12th fret. It's the same tapping technique, but now we're trying to get a harmonic sound instead of the note. There are also artificial tap harmonics. You have to take a note with your left hand and tap 12 frets further, this way you can play the harmonic octave of the same note. It works for every note, and we can play some melodies with them.
- 6 Overview - Soul Eich Harmonics 00:08 min
  
  DescriptionNow let's come back to a song we already know, "Soul Ache", and add a few extra artificial harmonics.
- 7 Performance - Soul Eich Harmonics 00:29 min
- 8 Breakdown - Soul Eich Harmonics 01:40 min
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  DescriptionWe already know how to play this one, so now let's look how to play harmonics there. After the tap slide, our interval sounds, and we have tap harmonics on the 19th fret on the G string and the 17th fret on the D. Then, we do exactly the same over the next chord. Here we're playing harmonic not at the 12th fret, but at the 5th fret. It's the artificial harmonic, but not the octave. You can also play artificial harmonics after 5th, 7th, 9th, or 12h fret.
- 9 Overview - Flat Earth 00:06 min
  
  DescriptionThe next piece is from my composition called "Flat Earth". There are harmonics together with the bass part.
- 10 Performance - Flat Earth 00:19 min
- 11 Breakdown - Flat Earth Harmonics 02:41 min
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  DescriptionThe bass part is quite easy. Let's see what happens with harmonics - we have to hold our fingers over 7th fret on G and D strings (don't push them, just lightly touch the strings), and tap artificial harmonics after the 12th frets, that's mean we hit the 19th fret. And the harmonics stay the same, we change only bass notes.
Chapter 8: All Together
- 1 Final Section 00:14 min
  
  DescriptionCongratulations, you've made it to the last section of my course! Now we'll use all of the knowledge you have gained to build full sounding riffs. I will show you a few riffs and explain how to play them.
- 2 Overview - Harmonics, Bass, Beat 00:13 min
  
  DescriptionNow we're going to play like a whole band. We'll take a riff with harmonics that we've learned and add percussion to it. We'll have a basspart, harmonics part, and rhythm.
- 3 Performance - Harmonics, Bass, Beat 00:20 min
- 4 Breakdown - Harmonics, Bass, Beat 02:15 min
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  DescriptionWe know bass and harmonics part, now let's learn percussion. Pay attention to the first kick drum, it has be powerful, but at the same time you have to take the bass note and harmonics quite gently. It may be complicated at first, but just keep going until you get the right balance. You're actually making three different sounds with one movement.
- 5 Overview - Friend Offline 00:05 min
  
  DescriptionNow we are going back to the song "Friend Offline", but this time with a full drum kit.
- 6 Performance - Friend Offline 00:17 min
- 7 Breakdown - Friend Offline 02:34 min
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  DescriptionHere we combine intervals with the drum beat. You already know the intervals, now let's see the percussion. We'll be using kick, snare, and a few extra hits, let's say tom-toms. I'm starting with an upper kick because I have to play an interval. Then, I move to a lower kick and snare. After the snare, I play 2 toms, first with a thumb and middle finger. Try to play toms a little bit softer and quieter, they should sound more like an echo effect. Moving to the 2nd interval, the rhythm stays the same, 3rd too. And on the 4th interval, there is a small drum fill: snare tom snare snare tom. I'm doing an accent on the last note, a percussive pop to make a more aggressive sound. Think about dynamics when performing drums. The more dynamics you have, the better it will sound.
- 8 Overview -Flat Earth 00:09 min
  
  DescriptionThe next is my composition "Flat Earth" – now we're going to add rhythm in to it. There will be a harmonic part, bass part, and percussion.
- 9 Performance - Flat Earth 00:17 min
- 10 Breakdown - Flat earth 02:20 min
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  DescriptionHere we combine tapping, tap harmonics, beats, and a bass part. We already worked with the main part, now we're adding a straight forward drum beat. Let's play the drum part separately. We're using an upper kick and a rimshot snare. After the kick, play harmonics. Quite natural movement. We can start without harmonics, just the drums and bass part. The last bar is a bit different, pay attention.
- 11 Overview -Minimalism 00:19 min
  
  DescriptionThe last song we're going to play is "Minimalism" – its the most advanced composition in this course. Don't worry If you can't play it yet, just keep practicing. Here we'll be using chords, percussion, and tapping.
- 12 Performance - Minimalism 00:14 min
- 13 Breakdown - Minimalism 02:10 min
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  DescriptionBy now you should be able to play the chords with tapping, so let's learn the beat. There are two kicks, and after them we're tapping a note with the left hand and then a snare. On our way back, we're playing two tom-toms with the thumb and middle finger. The rhythm in the next two chords is the same. There are slight variation on the last chord, doing one extra tom. In the second part, we have the same intro, but instead of 2 tom-toms, we're doing a tapping slide. The second chord has the same rhythm. Next, we have a tapping part. And at the very end, we're adding three kicks and a snare. It's the most complicated piece so far, and it asks a lot of your coordination and precise performance. Just keep playing it in a slow tempo until you get it right!
Chapter 9: Conclusion
- 1 Course Conclusion 01:16 min
  
  DescriptionI hope you've enjoyed our journey and have found many new ways how to approach your instrument. I also hope that this course has inspired you and given you new tools to find your own unique voice. When I was starting out with percussive acoustic bass, there was no other bass players I could learn from, I was looking for inspiration from guitarists and drummers. I was taking their ideas and searching for the ways to adapt them on the bass. It's much easier to make fully sounding composition on guitar than on bass, so I had to come up with many new and unique ideas. Many examples were taken from my original compositions from my solo album minimalist as well as from my bass and vocal duo project Karmafree. If you want to learn this technique further, feel free to contact me, I'm also offering lessons that you can learn about on my web page, DmitryLisenko.com. There you can find all information about me, as well as tabs and for percussive fingerstyle, and many other videos, tunes, and tutorials. Good luck!

The Teachlr

Dmitry Lisenko

bass player

Bass player from Latvia. Bass educator and innovator of a new technique of percussive fingerstyle on acoustic bass. For more information about me please visit my webpage dmitrylisenko.com

Percussive Acoustic Bass

Learn to play bass & percussion at the same time!

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