Slap or not ?

[ML94]

Hi guys

need help on this, to me it sounds like a slap n pop in this track or is it a guitar ?

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=sCjhWIhukdA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsCjhWIhukdA

it comes in at 30 seconds

would love for any comment on it

cheers

[Grangur]

It's computer. No strings were harmed in the making of this masterpiece

To be more helpful... to perform this, yes, you could use slap n pop as appropriate I guess. As long as you perform the requisite Hail-Marys and beg for forgivness etc

Edited April 13, 2013 by Grangur

[ML94]

Haha! This isnt my personal choice of music Just need to recreate it for a peice of school work. All that time i'd thought it must be a bass ...

[Grangur]

I'm so pleased you're not an ABC fan. I have to say I was worried for a mo there. If you HAVE to re-create it, then I too would use a bass for that section. I also have great confidence that your rendition will be SO much better than the original. Especially in the section where you use the flange and overdrive :-P

[ML94]

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1365869625' post='2045443']
I'm so pleased you're not an ABC fan. I have to say I was worried for a mo there. If you HAVE to re-create it, then I too would use a bass for that section. I also have great confidence that your rendition will be SO much better than the original. Especially in the section where you use the flange and overdrive :-P
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well when you listen to the song 100+ times you start hating more things than you started out with

[EMG456]

Nothing wrong with liking ABC for to like ABC you must like Trevor Horn and there's nothing wrong with that!

Yes, the main bass part was "performed" using a Fairlight CMI - the daddy of digital sampling workstations but the part to which you allude was I believe, bassist Brad Lang. If you want to get it accurate, there's only "popping" or as we oldies used to call it "snapping" - no slap.

Cheers

Ed

[BigRedX]

But Vice-Versa were musically more interesting.

[Grangur]

Thanks for the info and correcting me Ed

[Guest McBass]

[quote name='EMG456' timestamp='1366059970' post='2047967']
Nothing wrong with liking ABC for to like ABC you must like Trevor Horn and there's nothing wrong with that!

Yes, the main bass part was "performed" using a Fairlight CMI - the daddy of digital sampling workstations but the part to which you allude was I believe, bassist Brad Lang. If you want to get it accurate, there's only "popping" or as we oldies used to call it "snapping" - no slap.

Cheers

Ed
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It was Mark Lickley not Brad Lang.

[EMG456]

[quote name='McBass' timestamp='1366154408' post='2049150']
It was Mark Lickley not Brad Lang.
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You're right and I stand corrected!

Both good players.

Ed