Slick Joe Fick - Slapping The Upright Bass + Performance

Interview and Performance with Slick Joe Fick

This interview features our latest tutor, Slick Joe Fick. Hailing from Nashville, Tennessee Joe is known as the Energiser Bunny of slap bassists with his virtuosic slap chops and high-energy performances. If you are a fan of rockabilly slap bass, you will LOVE his playing!

In the interview, we discuss all things slap bass, including:

  • The pioneers of slap bass

  • Modern slap bass hotshots

  • Classic slap patterns

  • Left-hand technique and rule breaking

  • Playing Bill Black in a Hollywood blockbuster film.

  • Joe's insane two-handed slap!

  • ...and much more.

Slap That Bass! by Slick Joe Fick, a new comprehensive method on upright slap bass technique is out now.

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Slap That Bass! by Slick Joe Fick

Joe’s new online course is out now



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