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Practicing slaps

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Tue, 05/08/2012 - 12:45
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When you are practicing slaps, is it better to get to where you can play the lick reasonably well without slaps, and then add the slaps, or should I be practicing it all along with the slaps, even if I am stumbling over some of it?

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Tue, 05/08/2012 - 12:48
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Either of those two processes you propose will work.

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