Slap Bass For Beginners (Udemy.com)
Learn Slap Bass from scratch! This slap bass fundamentals course helps you get funky and stand out from the crowd.
Created by: Bogdan Radovic
Last updated November 2019
What you will learn
- Learn how to play all the basic slap bass techniques.
- Get familiar with the tricks involved in slap bass playing style.
- Play famous slap bass songs
- Jam with a fellow drummer or a backing track using the groovy slap bass playing style
How it compares
Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 15% of them
- Reviews100#117 of 184 by number of reviews
- Length1.7 hoursshorter than 81% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2019earlier than 61% of them
Course Description
Always wanted to learn how to play slap bass, but it was too difficult?
This course is my personal guide to slap bass technique and playing style. You'll learn everything you need to know about slap bass technique, enough to get you started in a matter of weeks. Yes, you CAN SLAP TOO! Believe it or not. I'll show you all the standard slap techniques in details, with close-ups and I'll also share secrets and tricks that bass teachers often skip to tell us! I guarantee that you'll be able to learn how to slap with the help of this course.
Please watch the free preview videos to get a taste for what’s inside.
This course is shot in full HD video, with quality bass playing audio mixed with the backing tracks. The course is split into five chapters, starting with basic technique all the way up to learning a beginner slap song and being able to improvise on your own in a slap bass style.
This course includes:
- PDF, Guitar Pro 5 & Guitar Pro 6 tabs for each playing example
- Specially designed slap bass exercises for quick technique development
- Backing track videos for jamming and practice
- English subtitles
- Unlimited forum help and instructor feedback
- Premium beginner slap bass song for you to learn
I want you to know that I would love if you would post your questions as you progress through the course. Please feel free to send me messages anytime, I’ll be checking them out and responding quickly. Also, I’d like to encourage you to record audio files or videos (you can post videos on Youtube and share the link) and send them to me for feedback.
I’m here to help YOU, so please don’t be shy! :)
This course is meant as an introduction to slap bass playing style. We won't go into any complicated techniques or slap bass lines. What you’ll gain are technique foundations for being able to play slap bass and learn famous slap bass songs. After all, the most of us just want to be able to learn how to play our favorite RHCP songs and others that utilize a slap bass technique. This course will help you with that. You'll also get a taste for how slap bass playing feels and sounds like, and you can decide if you want to take your slap bass playing further or not. Every bass players should know how to slap, even for just a little bit.
This course does not rely on music theory or any complicated playing techniques and this means that the course is fully suitable for complete beginners. Trust me, I have started learning slap bass playing style when I was just starting out on the bass, and if I was able to make it - You will to! Slapping is not something only advanced bass players should be able to do - everyone can do it. No talent or any playing experience is needed, you just need the desire to learn how to slap and that's it.
Please send me your feedback about the course. What did you like? What did you not like? How could I improve it? Your feedback means a lot to me and I need to in order to better shape the course content for YOU.
Please Enroll Today!
Cheers,
Bogdan
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
100 Reviews
Bogdan Radovic
Bogdan has been teaching bass guitar online for more than 8+ years now and has worked with 1000+ of online students over the years. His preferred teaching style are personalized video courses on focused topics that effortlessly guide students from point A to B giving them instant gratification at the end of each lesson.
Bogdan is also a published artist, songwriter, and producer with more 300+ live shows with various bands behind him. This experience from live gigs is what has defined him as a musician. His favorite bass guitar is a Fender American Jazz Bass deluxe and his favorite bass players are Paul McCartney, Victor Wooten and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Bogdan has almost a million views on Youtube and more than 1000 subscribers.
He has a strong passion for teaching others in a down-to-earth kind of way as he enjoys sharing tips and tricks as well as shortcuts and other revelations he has come to over the years of studying the instrument. His motto is “everyone needs to have fun while practicing” and his lessons always include musical examples and backing tracks students can have fun with.
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Reviews
By Joe Kool on 4/11/2025
Just as you said, it was not what I expected at all... But on the other hand the content is acceptable, techniques explained but not necessarily how you would play it in real life.
By David Swart on 10/19/2023
The instructor has broken down the steps in a very logical manner. At first I thought there was going to be too much time devoted to each little step, but I was wrong. I now see the value in devoting practice time to each of the very small chunks of new information presented in each lesson. It's early in the course and I'm already making noticeable progress!
By Robert McGinnis on 6/21/2022
It's a short course ; it's a good course. I've seem a few videos of Victor Wooten and I''d say this is on par because the explanation doesn't assume that you know something but starts simple and builds quickly. It helped make a few things very clear. 4 1/2 stars because 5 star courses don't exist. Would buy again without hesitation.
By Tanner Merrill on 9/5/2021
This is my first night working on it and I've already gotten pretty good at the slap and pot techniques and I'm not the best Bass player yet I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who wanted to learn slap bass
By Dawn Jay Cauilan on 1/10/2021
It tackled the basics of bass slapping technique that I needed to learn. It corrected some old habit how I do slap.
By David Riley on 10/2/2019
I've been playing bass for 40 years, but mostly finger style and pick. I wanted to improve my chops and pick up Slap bass and this has been an excellent course to teach me the proper technique. Very clear explanations and demonstrations. Awesome! Thank you.
By James Kiker on 8/9/2019
Nice overview of the different slap techniques. I'm an experienced bass player but have never added this technique to my repertoire. This was a very good place to start!
By Anonymized User on 3/5/2019
I've played Bass for 9 years, and its always been a great tool to use. This course covers the fundamentals of each technique, and I recommend people buy this course for better playing and future use with Bass.
By Amilton Junior on 11/15/2018
Excelente curso para baixistas iniciantes que querem explorar a técnica Slap ... recomendo apenas uma breve noção de inglês para compreender o instrutor, que é bem claro em suas colocações, direto e objetivo. Estou muito satisfeito e já progredi logo nos primeiros minutos de treinamento!
By Viktor T on 7/18/2016
This is my second course with Bogdan. I really like how concise and to-the-point his videos are. So far the material feels great and I'm starting to slap - yay! Can't wait to finish it.
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