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30 ways to play the bass … in only two minutes

So you want to play bass like Victor Wooten?

In a recent video, bassist/YouTube user Davie504 demonstrates 30 bass-playing techniques — in a span of only two minutes. The list includes:

• Palm muting

• 2 fingers

• Hammer-ons

• Pull-offs

• Staccato

• Legato

• Knob tweaking

• Slap

• Strumming Chords

• Double thumb

• Slides

• 2 hands tapping

• 1 hand tapping

• Zero hands tapping

• Natural harmonics

• Tapped harmonics

• Octave playing

• Artificial harmonics

• Using a guitar as a pick

• 3 fingers

• Galloping

• Pick

• Scratching

• Muting

• Pick & slap

• Sweep picking

• Pre-bending

• Bending

• Teeth

• Neck bending

Get a bass tutorial on these techniques from Davie504 in the video below.

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