I think you probably saw this question coming:D

can you break your slap technique down for us?
Right now I'm under the impression that it consists of traditional slap, double-thumping, and multiple finger plucking.

thanks

Yeah I'm really curious as well! you technique reminds me of Victor, but you can even sound busier than him sometimes!

A good example would be the beginning to your "Groove Therapy" tune, that's on display at myspace, could you dissect that approach?

And I think you would be the right man for the job of providing some tips on the usage of slap bass and odd timings.

Thanks for your interest in my bass "style".

I will attempt to shed some light on how I approach "slap" bass.

As for techniques I do incorporate anything and everything, I use "traditional" techniques, double thumbing, double popping. All in all I just want to not be limited in what I play with the slap sound so the more techniques I can use the less limited I am.

As for my grooves I tend to think of things in terms of groupings.
2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, 6's etc. For each grouping I can use a number of techniques, for instance, let's say I'm thinking a grouping of 3, I attatch that to say an OPEN-HAMMER-POP sequence, THUMB UP-THUMB DOWN-POP sequence, THUMB-POP-POP sequence (or whatever you choose) the thing to REMEMBER is that ANY attack can be any note, pitch or a muted note!!!

Now I can mix and match different groupings along with note choice to create grooves/rhythms. Let say I'm playing in 4/4, if I'm playing a sixteenth note groove I can mix and match groupings to equal 16 (one bar) for example:

2 groupings of 5 plus 2 groupings of 3 equals 16.

1 grouping of 5 plus 1 grouping 3 plus 2 groupings of 4 equals 16

This is agreat approach in that when you play in odd time you can use the same concept. Let's say I'm in 5/4

2 groupings of 5 plus 2 groupings of 3 plus 1 grouping of 4 equals
20

As you can see there are MANY combinations of techniques, rhythms and notes so the skys the limits!

Ray

Damn... :hyper:

Never thought of it that way!!!
Thank you for explaining this!!! :hyper: :bassist: :hyper: