Youtube "instructional" videos - 5 mins of frantic slapping at the beggining

[thepurpleblob]

No... don't... stop it...

That is all

[JapanAxe]

True, you can't tell anything about the performance of a bass/amp/pedal unless some dude is slapping the living sh!t out of their instrument.

[thepurpleblob]

It's not really slap I object to - well a bit, but there's a time and a place for everything - it's having to wait or poke about with the slider to find the stuff you came for.

It's not just music videos to be fair. I'm into classic cars and there are lots of useful youtube videos for specialist jobs - almost always prefaced by some oily bloke telling you their life history. I don't care who you are, I just want to know how to change the chain guides on a BMW M62 engine!!

[TheGreek]

I detect some "[i]Slappism[/i]" going on here - the belief that slapping a Bass is in some way NOT the way to play them.

This is becoming far too prevalent on this forum...

[thepurpleblob]

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1506085181' post='3376364']
I detect some "[i]Slappism[/i]" going on here - the belief that slapping a Bass is in some way NOT the way to play them.

This is becoming far too prevalent on this forum...
[/quote]

Replace 'slap' with any other genre of excessively showy playing. No slappism intended or implied

[Guest bassman7755]

[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1506085111' post='3376363']
It's not just music videos to be fair. I'm into classic cars and there are lots of useful youtube videos for specialist jobs - almost always prefaced by some oily bloke telling you their life history. I don't care who you are, I just want to know how to change the chain guides on a BMW M62 engine!!
[/quote]

I think youtube pay content creators according to length of video which is why they have so many inventive ways of padding them out.

[SH73]

There are some good videos where the player demonstrates the gear playing various techniques but slapping?

[tonyquipment]

A slappy is a pie butty in wiganese.

[Cuzzie]

It’s a bit annoying, technique is not for me, but Ian not a hater.
We can all universally agree that the best vids show pick, finger and slap.

Probably why Ed Friedland vids are good. Also I wouldn’t want noodle let’s see how fast a jazz run I can do vids. You need a good solid groove to let the Notes ring and hear the tone

[dmccombe7]

Bass Whisperer clips are usually where i head first as he uses varying techniques to demonstrate and even came across him doing Steve Harris bass review where he admitted not his kind of music but he learned the riffs of songs and then demonstrated other techniques that are equally good on Harris P bass. Uses the same Genz gear for every bass review i think so you can hear the differences between the basses to a certain degree. He runs the amps flat too.

I'm not a slapper myself altho some mates might disagree with that statement
I don't mind the occasional bit of slap but not the repetative "look how many slaps i can do in 1min" style. It needs to have something else maybe a groove or a feel of some kind to make me sit up and listen or grab my attention. Otherwise its just boring noise.

Dave

[mikel]

If the vid is "How to play slap" fair enough. Otherwise stick to what you are supposed to be teaching or reviewing.

[thepurpleblob]

Again, I wasn't really complaining about the slap per se (although it usually is slap). It's the unwarranted virtuoso performance to open the video. It's become a 'thing'. I get it, you can play... now show me how to play Mustang Sally

[TheGreek]

[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1506184737' post='3376964']
... now show me how to play Mustang Sally
[/quote]

No don't...please don't

[Dood]

"No Ego, No Shred, Just Bass" - Dan Veall.

[BigRedX]

Most YouTube videos irrespective of the subject are far too long and too difficult to find the information you actually want in them. I've given up trying to watch any of them.

[SpondonBassed]

[quote name='tonyquipment' timestamp='1506153751' post='3376728']
A slappy is a pie butty in wiganese.
[/quote]

Is that the same as a pie sandwich?

I thought I had invented the cake pie until I heard it was a thing already. I went on to come up with the intellectual property known as deep fried cake pie but I now want to put that in a sandwich and patent it. You don't mind do you?

[Happy Jack]

I bet you go out eating with that Les ...