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• Includes Guitar TABSize: 7-1/2" x 5-1/2"Composer: Ed FriedlandISBN: 634048694
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| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Hal Leonard | | DVD Release Date:
| February 11, 2003 | | Average Customer Rating:
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 get slap happyJul 29, 2004
By jlbjr
Ed Friedlin is a monthly writer for bass player magazine. He covers in an excellent way how to slap, pop, mute, develop a groove, how to play with drum machines, ghost notes, and does some licks in larry graham, louis johnson, and marcus miller style and it is laid out in a very good manner. very good instructional video.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Most concise, useful, and cheap intro to basic to high intermediate level slap bassJul 23, 2008
By Ajay Kalra
"ajaybyrd"
If all instruction material was as solid as this, I would have 50-100 books/DVDs in all (for bass, guitar, mandolin), not a 1000 or more.
There is enough easily usable information here to build your technique from scratch to as serviceable as any normal contemporary bass player's slap technique needs to be in typical playing situations. Only if you play in a solo or a bass-dominant musical context, would you need anything more.
Of course, once you fall in love with the possibilities of playing slap & pop (and tap etc.), you WILL need more. At that point you should get Stuart Clayton's ULTIMATE SLAP BASS, which actually is as complete a guide on any style on any instrument ever written (I otter know, coz I've invested more money in instruction material than any other human). Still, Clayton's book might be overwhelming because of its thoroughness; Ed's DVD has the essentials and intermediate stuff, but there's a load of them in here and the booklet is generous by DVD standards.
The only 3rd slap instruction you will perhaps need is the Hal Leonard book FUNK BASS by Chris Kringel as that gives you some real famous songs to learn. Of course, you can later progress to Victor Wooten's and Primus's transcriptions. In any case, for less than 20 buckaroos, this DVD provides the maximum wham for the whampum!
Not considered: Double thumbing, chord playing, and strumming. Of course, no tapping either; although in performance at a high level, tapping is often interspersed into slap technique.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Good Introduction for Slap BassAug 31, 2006
By Bass Brother
"Bass Brother"
This DVD cleared up alot of problems I was having trying to learn this style. After viewing this DVD many times, I feel I have a solid foundation in which to build on. I am by no means a super slap funk player, but I do have mucho more confidence going into grooves that require this style as a result of studying this DVD. I highly recommend it.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Best Bass Instruction DVD I Have UsedJul 21, 2009
By W. L. Holder
I am a good bass player. Primarily rock, but play a little bit of other styles. I bought this just as a tune up, mostly because I had a coupon and couldnt find another use for it.
This DVD is excellent. It starts out VERY simple. It may be boring for many at first, it was for me at first, but it gets better quickly. Ed Freidland gives excellent, easily understood instructions. I enjoy his style of instruction.
If you start in the beginning, actually do the drills & only move on after you 'master' the section, you will truely gain a lot from this DVD. Even an experienced bass player, like me, enjoyed it. Sure, the early parts were easy & relatively boring, but I breezed through them quickly. You will see that some of these skills & drills are much harder than you think if you force yourself to master them before moving on.
Overall, it took me about 3 weeks to work through this DVD this way. Most of which was the last few sections, they are much harder than they seem. I knew how to play "slap bass" prior to this DVD, but using this DVD properly truely made an improvement on my skill.
This is 1 item I can truely recomend to anyone who plays bass. I enjoyed it.
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
seems good for beginnersMar 15, 2004
i really haven't seen any other instructional bass video, so i don't have anything to compare it to. that said, i would say it's a good video for beginners. i think it covers all the basics for slap, and even goes into to some advanced stuff as well. he also gives good licks and exercises and goes over slap, pop, dead notes, and other stuff i can't think of. he also goes into getting a good sound for slap, and some funk history. the one drawback, is i would say he's not the best speaker, so sometimes you can tell he's not sure how to explain something, but overall he does a good job.
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