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Bonjour Nicolas,
At the beginning of your video playing Dixon’s Boogie, how are you playing those fast notes at the beginning?
Are you using one finger back and forth on the string as a strum or are you using multiple fingers and the thumb. (this also happens at 55 seconds in and elsewhere in the video)
Merci!
Hi,
are you talking about the “Toum / tou-tou-toum” figure in D-up on G string ?
I don’t got “strum” in my dictionary ! what is it ?
At the 55th second I play a quadruple-slap that is explained in the interview.
Please tell me more !
Thanks.
strumming is moving your fingers back and forth across the strings like a guitar player does with a pick.
at 25 seconds at the beginning of the video there is a fast passage that is played a few times.
How is that played?
Thanks very much!
No, I don’t play it like that.
It’s a fast “light” slap.I mean I slap “Toum / tou-tou-toum” but don’t let the string “click” the fingerboard.I like this riff you can hear in any Willie Dixon’s songs or in Oscar Pettiford solo : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0m3QWnxOKA
Let’s see how Oscar played this “light-slap”, hope it helps you.
nice addition of the quad slaps at 55. rarely hear most bass players apply them at all. quite a fun technique to add in.
Thanks,
try it and you gonna be a “quad addict” !
haha i already love adding them in to my playing, it’s funny to watch other local upright players lift their eyebrows when i show them a quad slap. :cheer: