Bass Player

Advanced Lesson

Welcome to the latest instalment in my long-running series on the tapping technique. If you’ve followed this column since the beginning, you’ll now be in possession of some seriously powerful tapping chops, which will enable you to employ many ideas on the bass that just aren’t possible with conventional playing techniques. Over the course of this series, we’ve covered all elements of the tapping technique in great detail, and we’re now at the point where we can put them all together and use them in some advanced solo

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