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)
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.
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.
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:
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