Slapping

[seashell]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU28GHMcYxM

Edited March 24, 2014 by icastle
Link fixed.

[Dingus]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU28GHMcYxM
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Benny Hill = role model.

Edited March 24, 2014 by icastle
Link fixed.

[jazzyvee]

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Benny Hill = role model.
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+ 1
Any advice on how to get that clean Benny Hill Tone :-)

[Dingus]

[quote name='jazzyvee' timestamp='1395077198' post='2398387']
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Any advice on how to get that clean Benny Hill Tone :-)
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You need one of these

Edited March 17, 2014 by Dingus

[Dingus]

Told you he was a role model:

[booboo]

3 pages and no one has threatened to burn anyone's house down or kill them for liking/not liking slap!
Very disappointing ladies and gents, this place is going to the dogs.

[discreet]

[quote name='booboo' timestamp='1395086655' post='2398568']
...no one has threatened to burn anyone's house down or kill them for liking/not liking slap!
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Well that's going a bit far. I'd be happy to slap someone for liking slap - if they're smaller than me.

[Thunderbird]

All I know is I cant play slap,have no interest in playing slap and I really don't like listening to it but if people like it and want to play it its up to them

[bagsieblue]

In the right context......
I quite like slap
I quite like Heavy Stuff
I quite like Korn

...I do not like the slap stuff in Korn's music - at all!

I also think slap is a poor name for it, surely there is a better name than 'slap'.

[Mornats]

Well I never expected to see cleavage when I started this thread. Well done Basschat

[thisnameistaken]

It's quite telling that slap is something bass players almost exclusively do alone. Whether those people are in a guitar shop or a trade show booth or on YouTube, they're always playing alone.

I had another rehearsal tonight and I used slap in one tune we jammed. The guitarist looked at me like I'd just spat on him. I am feeling sort-of determined to take slap back as a way of playing music though. And I will do it without ever playing a solo, or playing in Em, and making sure I never play more than three sixteenth notes in a row, and leaving a good couple of beats of rests in each bar.

[Bolo]

My guitards want more slap, more envelope filter and other weird bass party tricks. I thought I was in a thrash metal band!
Anyhow, heres a good instructional film about slapping with bass:
http://youtu.be/xCwLirQS2-o

[steve-bbb]

sorry but i just dont get how so many people dont actually like the beatles

[ML94]

Does it not come down to 'doing it tastefully'. It's another way to make music, when you start slapping just for the sake of it even the band looks at you in disgust. Don't slap because you can !

I'm off to practice my double thumbing now ....

[steve-bbb]

widdlers be gone

can we have more tasteful slow slapping like this please

[url="http://youtu.be/TdT4t0ywppA"]http://youtu.be/TdT4t0ywppA[/url]

[Dingus]

Back in the 1980's it was bad taste [i]not[/i] to slap!

Of course slapping can sound good, but just like any other technique , it has to be used judiciously. The best slappers tend to be the players with the best brains, and that means that they are not necessarily the guys on the front cover of all the bass magazines. One very tasty slapper who knows how to use that technique well is Alphonso Johnson. I know he's not the first name that springs to mind when it comes to slap bass, but his formidable skills extend to this much maligned technique and he knows how to use it to great effect:


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16jfNEift6o[/media]


On this track, strictly speaking he is popping rather than slapping on the verses, but it really works well and, as we would all agree , popping is the ying to slapping's yang

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGzY60YbeKs[/media]

Edited March 18, 2014 by Dingus

[Dingus]

Freddie Washington knows how to slap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SVMgOwtwvk

..and I always really liked Guy Pratt's bass playing on this track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrKtrIxn4XU

In all these examples, to my taste at least, slapping, whether it is busy or simple, sounds great and works really well as part of the song, .

[Geek99]

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To be fair, in Wakefield most people think going to Leeds for the day is a foreign holiday .
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As Harry Enfields character says "I know all about culture, love, I've been to Leeds!"

[Geek99]

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You need one of these


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No, I need two of those

[Conan]

Alphonso Johnson and Freddie Washington - top choices indeed!

[Dread Bass]

I think I have found a good way to use both slapping and tapping. It supports the rhythm of the song which is complex.

What do you guys think appropriate or not?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qsv2cApSGLA

Edited March 28, 2014 by icastle
Link fixed.

[Paul S]

I like slap bass when it is used for a reason, same as any other sound or technique. I wish I could do it better. Two of my favourite slapping songs, but for different reasons.

Chicago Song, David Sanborn - powerful and percussive
http://youtu.be/JGuO_noj4zM

Go West, What You Won't Do For Love - subtle and effective. Love the bass on this in particular. Anyone know who it is?
http://youtu.be/Jj9ORgevBAM

[Conan]

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1395223517' post='2399829']
Go West, What You Won't Do For Love - subtle and effective. Love the bass on this in particular. Anyone know who it is?
[/quote]

Graham Edwards?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mMoeWkDhqA

Why aren't my youtube links embedding any more?

Edit - according to Wiki, it could have been any one of three:[list]
[*]Abe Laboriel Jr.
[*]Neil Steubenhaus, "Ready" Freddie Washington
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All great session players. To my ears, it sounds most like Freddie - but I could well be wrong on that!

Edited March 28, 2014 by icastle
Link fixed.

[discreet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mMoeWkDhqA

[Conan]

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1395223517' post='2399829']
Chicago Song, David Sanborn - powerful and percussive
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That's Marcus Miller (plus a bit of synth bass...) Possibly his best performance with Sanborn is Run for Cover - a brilliant track!