Favourite Slap lines based in 16ths

[Music_for_life]

I refer to slapping in rhythms based on 16ths, where the bassist gives equal importance to both the thumb-slap and the percussive use of fretting-hand muting.
Thanks

[Hoover]

Two things come to mind:

- in Return To Forever's "Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant" (from the Romantic Warrior album) there's a brief interlude maybe 2/3rds of the way through the tune where Stanley Clarke lays downs this wonderfully slinky, spiralling descending slap line...not so much a "solo" per se (his solo comes just a few bars later) but more like a groove: "bladda-dink-a-bow-dee-doo-BOOW, ba-dee-ba-doo-nooow, dow-dee-dow-ba-doo-bee-doo-ba-danka-danka DOO-BAP..." I've been listening to that album for ~33 years and I still get a woodie when I hear that passage.


- not really slapped, but I think this counts anyhow: The Tony Levin/Jerry Marotta drumming-on-the-bass break in Peter Gabriel's "Big Time", from the So album. Just brilliant.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by Music_for_life

I refer to slapping in rhythms based on 16ths, where the bassist gives equal importance to both the thumb-slap and the percussive use of fretting-hand muting.
Thanks

Alain Caron?
...check out "Slam The Clown".

[Music_for_life]

Of Mark king??

[Music_for_life]

Wich are Mark King favourites 16ths slap bass lines?

[JHL]

Just posted this vid in a separate thread, but it fits in here as well. Just wait about 15 sec.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnSJuD-h_nA

[flypejose]

One of my preferred line. I agree with one of the video comments:
"No matter how good you are at something, there's always an asian better than you"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piAOXND2vKw

[Music_for_life]

Originally Posted by flypejose

One of my preferred line. I agree with one of the video comments:
"No matter how good you are at something, there's always an asian better than you"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piAOXND2vKw

Ohh, incredible stuff..where I can find that instrucional dvd?

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Originally Posted by Music_for_life

Wich are Mark King favourites 16ths slap bass lines?

Without a doubt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKI8pFqWm0s&fmt=35

[the yeti]

Originally Posted by JimK

Alain Caron?
...check out "Slam The Clown".

slappin' "the clown"?
sorry. please continue.
sub'd.

[Clark Dark]

Doug Rauch..check out Santana's Welcome CD
when I look into your eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9zphx-gdgg

[James Hart]

Originally Posted by the yeti

slappin' "the clown"?
sorry. please continue.
sub'd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xj0jPKtWgU

[flypejose]

Originally Posted by Music_for_life

Ohh, incredible stuff..where I can find that instrucional dvd?

I have no idea! I'm not sure it is being distributed in the US. Probably in Japan.

[engedi1]

I always liked Sex in a Pan by the Flecktones... (the Mark King Clip is just insane)Slam the Clown is also truly amazing. Incredible groove and one of the best slap bass solo's ever.