073 - In Conversation with Phil Mann - Essential Slap Bass

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🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In today’s podcast we’re talking slap bass with SBL’s very own Phil Mann. Having already made waves among the SBL audience with his first academy course on slap bass, Phil Mann is back with the next instalment that takes a closer look at some of his trademark slap techniques. Be it the polyrhythmic tapping and slapping of Victor Wooten or Mark King’s ‘chugging’ rhythms from Level 42, slap bass sounds great and looks impressive, but getting it right can be frustrating, let alone getting a good...

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0:00.0	Hey guys, how's it going? Scott here back with another episode of the SBL podcast for you.
0:06.1	This week we've got our very own Phil man in the hot seat. Phil, a lot of you will already know
0:12.9	Phil is one of the faculty here at Scott's bass lessons. Super, super cool guy, great bass educator and obviously great bass player as well.
0:23.6	In this interview he's going to talk about all his on the road's shenanigans with the amazing guitar player who is torn with at the minute, Albert Lee.
0:35.1	Phil's holding the base duty or the base chair down for the
0:39.0	Albert Lee band at the minute, and he's touring all over the place. Now, if you don't know,
0:42.8	Albert Lee is a legendary country guitar player, one of the, if not the biggest country guitar
0:51.4	player to ever, you know, ever walk the earth, ever, ever,
0:55.1	um, twang the, uh, out of the B string.
0:58.4	I don't know.
0:59.4	Never try and make jokes up on the spot.
1:01.6	I'll always remember that one.
1:03.4	Anyway, Albert Lee's an absolute monster guitar player.
1:07.3	Um, he's played with the Evely brothers.
1:09.0	He's played with Eric Clapton.
1:10.5	He's played with so many people. And He's played with Eric Clapton. He's played with so many
1:11.8	people. And he really is a fantastic guitar player. He was actually one of my earliest guitar
1:17.8	influences way back when I was playing guitar, maybe when I was like 14, 13 or 14 or something
1:23.5	like that. I was hugely into Albert Lee. I had all these DVDs and all of those types of
1:29.6	things. I was really into country guitar and I was really into Tool as well. So, and Alison Chains.
1:37.1	And, you know, I had a really diverse musical, you know, musical interests when I was a kid.
1:42.3	But Albert Lee was right up there. So when Phil called me and said,
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