Artist - Wham!
Electric Bass - Deon Estus
Difficulty - Intermediate
This weeks transcription revisits the bass player Deon Estus (previously covered in George Michael’s ‘Faith’), this time looking at his line on Wham!’s Club Tropicana.
This is one of many lines that highlights the importance, when working on your slap technique, of being able to switch between it and plucking with the fingers because this line (any many others) has sections where a short phrase of slap playing has been inserted into the groove.
We also have the cool slap intro and the little bass break in the middle! It’s worth noting here that the vast majority of those are both played using thumb strikes, there are very few pops in there. If they’re too quick for you at present, slow the figures down to 50% of tempo and work on them until the strike pattern is properly internalised, THEN you can start to worry about tempo!
For this track I chose my Fodera (single coil mode, tone control wide open) paired with my Cali76 compressor and my MXR M80 preamp, overdrive on but slightly less saturation than I usually use.
Enjoy!
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