Slapping a fretless

[Blademan_98]

I dont know if this has been posted before:
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbXLdNes404&NR=1"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbXLdNes404&NR=1[/url]

I thought it was pretty cool

The wear to the fretboard is amazing!

[Conan]

[quote name='Blademan_98' timestamp='1320781460' post='1431401']The wear to the fretboard is amazing!
[/quote]

Not sure that it's wear? Looking at the shadows the fretboard looks pretty good. Isn't it just wood of a different colour?

[arthurhenry]

I'll stick to slapless fretting.

[Blademan_98]

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1320781857' post='1431413']
Not sure that it's wear? Looking at the shadows the fretboard looks pretty good. Isn't it just wood of a different colour?
[/quote]

Could be. I just get the feeling he does that routine a lot

[AttitudeCastle]

Stew is a great player and a really nice guy!

[Blademan_98]

[quote name='AttitudeCastle' timestamp='1320781985' post='1431422']
Stew is a great player and a really nice guy!
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He certainly is a great player. I really enjoyed the video.

Do you know if that is wear or just the wood colour?

[deanovw]

My guess is wood variation. Not wear.

[Vibrating G String]

[quote name='Blademan_98' timestamp='1320782075' post='1431425']Do you know if that is wear or just the wood colour? [/quote]It's the sapwood which is lighter than the heartwood. That board is coated and not worn at all.

[Chris2112]

Stew is a great player. Some of the Talkbass crowd bought him a Conklin bass a few years ago, quite simply one of the most sublime basses I've ever seen.

I'm not a fan of slapping on a fretless bass though, I think Bakithi Kumalo is the only bassist I've heard doing it and thought 'wow, that sounds great'.

[kevin_lindsay]

The fingerboard colour is due to the natural colouring of the wood used. If you want to find out more, drop him an email at Nordstrand Guitars. Stew made that bass himself as a side project at work.

[originalfunkbrother]

[i]I think Bakithi Kumalo is the only bassist I've heard doing it and thought 'wow, that sounds great'[/i].

Amen!

[BottomE]

I don't mean to be a big girly downer but i think it sounds awful. Sorry.

[Happy Jack]

If he bought himself a cheap drum machine, he wouldn't have to make all those silly clicky-clacky noises while playing. Then maybe he could play it properly.

[Blademan_98]

[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1320831477' post='1431871']
I don't mean to be a big girly downer but i think it sounds awful. Sorry.
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I don't normally like slap but thought it was good

Each to their own and I would be worried if everyone liked it

I just hadn't seen a fretless slapped before (but I have led a sheltered life!)

[Mornats]

I did wonder whether this could be done on a fretless. I've got nylonwound strings on mine which makes it a non-started on my bass.

[BottomE]

[quote name='Blademan_98' timestamp='1320864489' post='1432541']
I don't normally like slap but thought it was good

Each to their own and I would be worried if everyone liked it

I just hadn't seen a fretless slapped before (but I have led a sheltered life!)
[/quote]
Yes each to their own

I do like slap when done tastefully. Taste is also subjective. Ask that Clutterbuck geezer

[JTUK]

Yep..works for me..... but that is because he uses a very hard sound, plays well and has some imagination.

The only other guy I can listen to slap on a fretless is Pino..but he has a bassier sound...so emphasises
the precussive attack rather than the pulls to give it that element of funk.

The last thing you want to do slap-wise is bury it in the mix...so you need a lively sound..and that is almost contary to a fretless, IMO.

[Delberthot]

I didn't realise that part of "Come Back and Stay" was slapped until I saw this

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIrjzzG9baA[/media]

Edited November 10, 2011 by Delberthot

[Rich]

Oh man, I could watch and listen to Pino fretlessing for hours.
Thanks for posting that.

[JohnFitzgerald]

If you can handle the atonality of the music. Check out Primus.
Personally, I can't truly like what they do, but I can't completely dislike it either, no matter how hard I try.

Les Claypool slaps some amazing fretless.
Or maybe he doesn't. I can't make up my mind.