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Thanks for the great advice.

Thanks, that's really helpful stuff. I've been doing it the "bounce" way, and it's getting better as the harmonics are mostly gone, although I still get them sometimes on the higher strings. I'll take a look at the thumbing-through technique. I've been trying to keep my hand relaxed, but after half an hour of playing, I'm finding my shoulder and hole arm is aching, so I guess I haven't got it down yet! Must try harder...

Thanks for the tips guys. I also raised the action slightly on my E and A strings. I think it may have helped a little. But then dinner arrived so the missus ordered me off the guitar. I'll give it a try at the end of the fretboard too.

Hi all. I'm a complete newbie, so please be gentle! I've been playing the guitar for a couple of years and would consider myself intermediate, but I had a bass guitar as a present this Xmas, so I've only been playing it a few days. It's interesting being a complete novice again! The guitar is an Ibanez SG400, in case that makes any difference. Anyway, I've been trying to play some slap bass... My first goal is to play Hot Water. The problem is that most of the time, when I slap the strings with my thumb, I hear the harmonic very strongly, but not the actual fretted note. So, basically, all I'm hearing is the much higher-pitched harmonics, which vary in pitch depending on where I slap the string at the pickups. But I never strongly hear the note I want to hear. I thought it might be my amp setup... since I don't actually have one! I know it's a bad idea to use my regular guitar amp, and I don't have a bass amp, so I've been plugging my bass into a POD, which is plugged into a PreSonus interface, which is then monitored through my computer speakers. But if I play the bass unamplifed, I can still hear the harmonics and very little else. Is this a common problem? Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks guys.