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{{Top-Level Crumbs|1}}{{Lesson Crumbs|4}}{{Technique Crumbs|11}} ''Thumping'' is a technique recently made popular in the guitar world by Tosin Abasi of Animals as Leaders; however, Victor Wooten has popularized in the bass world a while back. It uses the thumb to pluck a string for a different tone than picking, slapping, and traditional finger-style. This can be utilized against other techniques to add variety to a phrase, as well as providing its own unique tone.
== Technique ==
The difficulty of this technique is that it requires some speed and gusto to get the correct tone, but it's hard to develop that speed starting out before you are comfortable with the technique. It takes a lot of work to get to that Ah-Ha! point, and then even more work to bring it up to speed...and even more to be able to mix it against other techniques.
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=== Difference from Finger Picking ===
The big difference from normal finger-picking with the thumb vs. thumping is that thumping has speed in the thumb before hitting the string, creating a percussive thump before plucking it.
== Animals as Leaders - An Infinite Regression Intro ==
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== Related Lessons ==
* [[Slapping]]
* [[Finger Picking]]
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