Slapping - 4th Chorus of Feelin' for the Blues
Wed, 04/02/2014 - 11:11
David,
Should I be slapping the turnround triplets in bar 7 of the 4th chorus of Feelin' for the Blues? I'm slapping more or less OK elsewhere, but can't quite get that measure together.
Also, I'm slapping the 3 draw dips in the head, bar 1 (well, working on it). I think that's what you're doing - am I right?
Thanks for the advice just to back off a bit and play through the song a couple of times daily. It's got a lot smoother and I'm enjoying it rather than struggling.
Kirsty
Hello Kirsty. I don't slap much in this song due to it being a more pretty song, more of a ballad blues. I do start to use slaps near the middle of the 4th Chorus and onwards. For that triplet passage, slap the downbeat of each triplet figure. This is a general rule of thumb when it comes to triplets, so you can use this tip for future studies when the tempo is faster. I wouldn't use slaps for the dips in this song, you tend to hear that more with shuffles, and sometimes slow blues and swings.
So sum up... the general rule is to slap in blues, but when you want to sound pretty, like this song, it's not used much.