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- Understand the range of the instrument (from E1 to B2 or B0 to B2)
- Clean technique and one note at a time
- Watch you volume
- Don’t play all the time (build with no bass at first)
- Don’t come in too late: play when the drums are playing
- Space gives funk
- Alternate two fingers for repeated notes
- To slap or not to slap?
- Try other bass sound effects (slide, muted slap samples, harmonics)
- Don’t limit yourself to electric bass guitar sounds
- Play keyboard and bass parts that compliment each other
- Simplify your keyboard parts