Flamenco Slap

[Bilbo]

This just landed on my YouTube feed. A Spanish bass player who has taken traditional Flamenco guitar technique (the most sophisticated approach to the instrument in the world) and transferred it to six string bass. I love Nuevo Flamenco as it is but this is astonishing. The guy is called Juan Farjado Louva and is new to me. Makes most slappers look a little silly. Enjoy. 

 

[LeftyJ]

If you enjoy this, have you listened to Carles Benavent yet? Not slap, but fantastic flamenco playing on bass.

[Reggaebass]

His double thumbing across the strings is amazing, I can just about do it on one 🙂

[Bilbo]

Charles Benavent invented Flamenco bass. There are some great recordings out there with him on but one of my favourites is Gil Goldstein'Zebracoast. 

 

[Barking Spiders]

Hugely impressive technical skill but would I want to listen to it for pleasure more than once ? Not really. 

[Maude]

I'm sure you must've seen this @Bilbo, and it seems to have become a kind of party piece for Adam Ben Ezra but it still impresses me whenever I see it.

 

 

[Clarky]

Amazing technical skills. Carles Benavent is a (5 string) pick player, though, so really quite different. Have to say I prefer Carles for listening pleasure.

 

[TheGreek]

Yeah....I showed him how to play that...😉😉

[Reggaebass]

7 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Yeah....I showed him how to play that...😉😉

Can you show me 😁

[4000]

I’d really like to try one of those Barcelona’s. With the possible exception of the flat board I think it would suit me.

I love flamenco. When I was small we used to go on regular holidays to Mallorca and Spain and it really stuck with me, it always feels like home.