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by aarontomberlin on September 25, 2009

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Although the thumping technique is very important for this funk style, other important techniques like hammer ons and finger plucking are involved in creating the cool percussive rhythms.

© 2009 Aaron Tomberlin

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rocker_01 :

Why is this not in the "Guitar Lessons" category?

POSTED: 09/25/2009 - 11:54 pm / quote |

rocker_01 :

Oh wait, sorry about that. I meant, why is this not in the "Bass Lessons" category?

POSTED: 09/25/2009 - 11:54 pm / quote |

gunmyle :

rocker_01 wrote:

Oh wait, sorry about that. I meant, why is this not in the "Bass Lessons" category?

a bass is also a guitar lol

POSTED: 09/26/2009 - 07:00 am / quote |

Deliriumbassist

gunmyle wrote:

rocker_01 wrote:

Oh wait, sorry about that. I meant, why is this not in the "Bass Lessons" category?

a bass is also a guitar lol

WRONG!

R

POSTED: 09/26/2009 - 08:08 am / quote |

Deliriumbassist

Bloody internet... read this as to why: [url]http://profile.ultimate-guitar.com/thefitz/blog/66068/[ /url]

POSTED: 09/26/2009 - 08:09 am / quote |

Astaldo :

good lesson anyway!

POSTED: 09/26/2009 - 02:00 pm / quote |

vanhalen241 :

Deliriumbassist wrote:

gunmyle wrote:

rocker_01 wrote:

Oh wait, sorry about that. I meant, why is this not in the "Bass Lessons" category?

a bass is also a guitar lol

WRONG!

R

ummm RIGHT! a bass is a guitar Oh Smart One. Hence the name Bass GUITAR!!!

POSTED: 09/26/2009 - 10:33 pm / quote |

wicked_hobbit :

vanhalen241 wrote:

Deliriumbassist wrote:

gunmyle wrote:

rocker_01 wrote:

Oh wait, sorry about that. I meant, why is this not in the "Bass Lessons" category?

a bass is also a guitar lol

WRONG!

ummm RIGHT! a bass is a guitar Oh Smart One. Hence the name Bass GUITAR!!!

I really wanna see you do the whole thumping thing on a "guitar" instead of a "bass".

Anyway, cool lesson. I just got my first bass a week ago. Gonna try this out

POSTED: 09/27/2009 - 08:22 am / quote |

Darknives :

why is there a section for guitar and another for bass guitars? are we going to just put all bass stuff on the guitar section so everyone has an hardtime looking for stuff? if there's a bass category, put this lesson there, lets keep things organized.
cool lesson by the way

POSTED: 09/27/2009 - 12:17 pm / quote |

aarontomberlin :

hey guys... i dont put the lessons up. sorry that its not in bass catagory. please email UG about this.

POSTED: 09/28/2009 - 01:54 am / quote |

Reighnart :

I thump on acoustic

POSTED: 09/28/2009 - 08:12 pm / quote |